Performing an installation via the command line allows passing parameters to the installation to control options within the installation.

ETABS v19

The installers provided for ETABS v19 provide additional parameters to allow setting values related to licensing.

Other Products and Versions

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

   Setup.exe /v"/qn SHOWACTIVATE=0 NGEN=1"

where,

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

and the parameter values are specified as:

• SHOWACTIVATE
  • 0 - prevents the license activation prompt from showing
  • 1 - prompts for standalone license activation
• NGEN
  • 0 - prevents native image generation from being performed
  • 1 - performs native image generation

Note: CSI recommends performing native image generation during installation to help improve the program startup time.