Installing SIMULIA Execution Engine in Silent Mode

In Silent Mode Installation- you provide a response file recorded during a previous installation. With proper inputs, the silent installer will install Isight products without any user interaction.

In Silent Mode- the Isight 2024 installer does not need a graphics card to be present in your machine.

Note: You should not enable the launch of the TomEE Configuration Utility during your previous installation as this will invalidate the response file being recorded for use in Silent Mode.

  1. Retrieve the response file from the previous installation of Isight Desktop.

    The response file is generated automatically by a previous Isight installation of same version. It contains the responses to the questions you were asked during the previous installation. The file name and path is:

    <Install_Path>/InstallData/UserIntentions.xml

    For example, after installing Isight on Windows with the default path, the path would be:

    C:\SIMULIA\Isight\Isight2024\InstallData\UserIntentions.xml

    After retrieving the response file, you can put it in any location you like.

    A response file is specific to:

    • A particular operating system: response files are different between Windows and UNIX; and
    • A particular version of Isight:

  2. Edit the response file.

    Open the response file in any text editor, if required. The variables you can edit are as follows:

    • path values
    • text values
    • port number values

    Boolean variables must never be changed from TRUE to FALSE or vice versa, because this changes the sequence and the list of the installation questions and the answers may not be found in the response file. The response file must be:

    • XML "well-formed"
    • UTF8 encoded

  3. Launch the Isight silent installation.

    You launch the Isight Silent Mode installation in the same manner as in console mode using the StartTUI program, except that you must specify the --silent option followed by the full path of the response file.

    In the installation media, go to the directory:

    On Windows:

    <assembly_media_dir>\SIMULIA_Isight\Windows64\1

    On Linux:

    <assembly_media_dir>/SIMULIA_Isight/Linux64/1

    Run the following command

    On Windows:

    StartTUI.exe --silent C:\UserIntentions.xml

    On UNIX:

    ./StartTUI.sh --silent /UserIntentions.xml

    The installation will run in silent mode with some progress messages printed to the terminal. The messages will include the location of any log files, which would be helpful in case something goes wrong.