Do you support an unattended install method for DFMA software?

The DFMA installation was built using Installshield Professional v7.01. It supports silent installations by passing a /s command line argument to the setup.exe program located in the install folder of the Installation CD. The silent install takes its inputs from a response file (*) that you either can create manually or create by running the setup.exe with a /r command line argument. Further details on creating/running a silent install can be found on www.installshield.com in their Knowledge Base.

 (*)The Unattended Install response file must be created so that it can handle certain dialogs that appear during install only when the software is already present. Therefore if you are installing new, reinstall after the new install twice. If you are upgrading, reinstall once. Then create the response file.

Additional Information on the Install subfolder:

The autorun setup.exe in the root of the DFMA CD is not an Installshield setup; it's a C++ program that runs the appropriate setup below the root. The setup that is in the Install subfolder is the setup that is used when you select the first option from the autorun "Install node-locked license of DFMA software" and the third option "Install floating license of DFMA software". The only difference between the two is that, at the end of the install of a node-locked license of the software, you get the question asking if you wish to submit a request for a license, and its subsequent screens when you answer yes.

You can pass a "/n" to the setup in the install subfolder to put it in "node-locked" mode or a "/l" for "floating". It defaults to "floating" when the setup mode command line is not passed.

Additional Information on Floating licenses:

When installing a floating license, you do not need to request a license for the client machine. The license file is the same for all the client machines. It is the first line from the license file on the server followed by a second line containing "USE_SERVER", as in:

SERVER nnn.nnn.nn.nnn xxxxxxxxxxxx
USE_SERVER

The license file is requested during "Installing DFMA FLEXlm floating license manager," the second option from the autorun (which runs the setup in the install\admin subfolder.) The license manager is only installed on the server running FLEXlm.

You can automate the installation of the client license file, by including a copy of it in the install subfolder. The setup will copy the file named license.dat from this folder to the appropriate folder location on the client machine if it exists.