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Performing an installation via the command line allows passing parameters to the installation to installer that control options within during the installation. When started from the command line, the installation will proceed as normal, showing the installer user interface, unless started as a silent installation.

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NOTE: When When using the command line, it is important to pay close attention to placement of double quotes ("), spaces, and other characters as the . The Windows installer is very specific about these and will not perform as expected if unless the syntax is not exactly as it expects itexpected.

CSiBridge v23, ETABS v19, SAP2000 v23, SAFE v20 and Newer Versions

The installers provided for CSiBridge v23, ETABS v19 provide , SAP2000 v23, and SAFE v20 and newer offer parameters to control how the installation executes , as well as allow setting and to specify values related to licensing. An example looks like:

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   Setup.exe should be changed to the name of the downloaded InstallShield setup file;

   Setup.msi should be changed to the name of the MSI file extracted from the InstallShield setup file.

and the parameter values are specified as:

  • SHOWACTIVATE - specifies whether to prompt for standalone license activation.:
    • 0 - turns the prompt off
    • 1 - turns the prompt on
  • NGEN - specifies whether to perform native-image generation.:
    • 0 - turns native-image generation off
    • 1 - turns native-image generation on
  • LicenseMode - sets the desired license mode for the software to use.:
    • Login - Cloud TrialSign-in Licensing
    • Cloud - Cloud Key Licensing
    • Standalone - Standalone Licensing
    • Network - Network Licensing
  • ActivationKey - sets a license activation key. Currently this only works for cloud licensing, allowing the cloud license to be activated at installation time instead of when the software is first run.
  • Server - sets the name or IP address of a legacy network license server. This will create an LMHOST.INI file in the installation folder containing the server name or IP address.
  • Level - sets the desired license level to use when the software is run.  This will create a LEVEL.TXT file in the installation folder containing the level name.

Other Products and Older Versions

Other CSI installers provide two options to control how the installation executes. An example looks like:

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   msiexec /i Setup.msi SHOWACTIVATE=0 NGEN=1

where, 

   Setup.exe should be changed to the name of the downloaded InstallShield setup file;

   Setup.msi should be changed to the name of the MSI file extracted from the InstallShield setup file.

and the parameter values are specified as:

  • SHOWACTIVATE - specifies whether to prompt for standalone license activation:
    • 0 - prevents turns the license activation prompt from showingoff
    • 1 - prompts for standalone license activation
    NGEN
    • turns the prompt on
  • NGEN - specifies whether to perform native-image generation:
    • 0 - prevents turns native-image generation from being performedoff
    • 1 - performs turns native-image generation on


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NOTE: CSI strongly recommends performing native-image generation during installation to help improve the program startup time. This is the default behavior.