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1-Visitor
April 25, 2012
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Creo 2.0 unattended install issues

  • April 25, 2012
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Hello all,

We're trying to install Creo 2.0 on our lab machines. Since we have hundreds of machines, we have to write unattented install scripts for everything, and Creo looked like it was going to make this easy for us. I performed a successful installation while recording a trail file with -uilog, then tried playing back the trail file with -uitrail... and the installer got stuck on the License Identification page.

After experimenting a bit, the problem seems to be with contacting the license server. When I enter a license server under the License Summary heading, the installer takes a few seconds to contact the server and confirm that I really do have a PTC license manager running on that server before it will let me click the Next button. Unfortunately, this delay seems to confuse the execution of the trail file, causing it not to work.

Does anyone know of a way to work around this?


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5 replies

1-Visitor
April 25, 2012

Up through Creo 1.0 I have always used xcopy to broadcast new versions and releases to the network. A shortcut to a startup script is copied to the desktops.

13-Aquamarine
April 25, 2012

Here too on the copy. Or even zip to a Self extracting zip file and then uncompress.

And the license server designation is stored in the .PSF file in the bin directory of the install.

1-Visitor
April 26, 2012

Manually increase many line in trail file, Wait license server check return

EX:

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~ Input `pim` `LicenseTable$1$license_source`7788@Licanse`

~ Update `pim` `LicenseTable$1$license_source`7788@License`

~ Activate `pim` `SimpleLicenseCheck` 1

~ Activate `pim` `AdvancedLicenseCheck` 1

~ Activate `pim` `SimpleLicenseCheck` 1

~ Activate `pim` `AdvancedLicenseCheck` 1

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~ Activate `pim` `SimpleLicenseCheck` 1

~ Activate `pim` `AdvancedLicenseCheck` 1

~ Activate `pim` `SimpleLicenseCheck` 1

~ Activate `pim` `AdvancedLicenseCheck` 1

~ Activate `pim` `wizardnext`

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24-Ruby III
April 26, 2012

Jack,

you can test the procedure mentioned in Installing Creo Parametric from Command Line section (M020_Creo_install.pdf, page 46). I didn't test it yet, so I don't know if it works.

Martin Hanak

1-Visitor
May 24, 2012

Hi all,

I've got to this stage too, the instructions in the install guide I've found to be pretty useless. Does anybody have another tip for getting the unattended install process to pick up the license...???

I've tried the suggestion from AiresChen and it doesn't seem to help...

If you copy the files using xcopy, are you copying a previous installation to where it would be installed and importing the registry entries or are you copying the setuop files and running the setup from a local disc?

This is eating up a lot of my sanity! 🙂

Thanks for any help you can give...

Paul

1-Visitor
May 24, 2012

Can you log a support ticket for this? I think PTC support may be your best answer at this time as no one ele has been able to assist.

24-Ruby III
May 24, 2012

https://www.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS61964 informs us that SPR 2126150 has been already opened.

Maritn Hanak

3-Newcomer
February 27, 2013

HI!

any updates to silent Install of Creo 2.0 (M040)?

we have only 15 Engineers, but I hate to click through the Install menu. The XML-Thing looks nice at the first look. But it seems to be complicated if you want to preselect license server, license config, package config...

any advices or how-to?

br Bernhard

24-Ruby III
February 27, 2013

Bernhard,

just info for you ...

Our admin bought EMCO MSI Package Builder Enterprise 4 software and uses it to automate Creo installation.

Martin Hanak

3-Newcomer
February 27, 2013

Thank you for the reply.

I just crawled through the xml files and now I think creobase.xml (default file paths) and pma.xml (Packages and License) are the two files I need.

I haven't found the license config at first.

In combination with AutoIt this should work.

br Bernhard