Workflow for a Silent Installation
A system administrator can follow the workflow described below for a silent installation of Creo Schematics on a network location or on a client computer:
1. Perform a typical product installation with the configuration that you want to use for future installations.
a. Open a command shell and run setup.exe from the root directory of the installation media. The PTC Creo Installation Assistant starts.
b. On the Welcome screen click Install new software.
c. On the License Identification screen perform one of the following operations:
▪ Drag a node-locked or floating license file into the License Sources area.
▪ Enter the port@host address of the running license server.
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• Downloading a license file or installing PTC License Server must be done in a separate installation session.
• A license source is not validated during the silent installation process. Hence, you must ensure the accuracy of the license source list that is configured in the commands (.psf files) for starting Creo Schematics.
• The license source specification is designated in an XML file. It can be overridden using a command-line argument during the silent installation process. See
Command Syntax for a Silent Installation for details.
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d. Select Creo Schematics to install, customize your installation, and specify any other site-specific configurations.
e. Click Install to begin the installation.
f. Click Finish to close the Assistant.
An independent XML file is stored with a Schematics.p.xml extension at Creo <version number>\Schematics\bin\pim\xml.
Additionally, Creo Schematics requires XML files for the Diagnostic Tools that is located at <installation media>:\pim\xml\qualityagent.xml. Edit the qualityagent.xml file and set the value of the install attribute to y.
2. Copy the following files to a temporary location on your disk for example D:\temp\ptc and edit them as required.:
◦ schematics.p.xml
◦ qualityagent.xml
See
Editing the XML Files for information on how to edit the various nodes of an XML file.
3. Perform a silent installation of Creo Schematics using the command syntax as described in the next section.