InstallShield Standalone Build: Parameters to automate the registration process

[#1]

Summary:
This article shows how to automate passing the license information to a silent install of the InstallShield Standalone Build (SAB).

Resolution:

1. Download the InstallShield Standalone Build. For example: InstallShield2021R2StandaloneBuild.exe
2. Open an Administrator command prompt.
3. Run the following command:
   InstallShield2021R2StandaloneBuild.exe /S /v/qn /VSERVERNAME=<IPADDRESS OR LICENSE_SERVER_NAME> /VPORTNUMBER=<LICENSE_SERVER_PORT> /VLICENSETYPE=2 /VADDLOCAL=ALL

The following tasks will be completed and the install will be done silently without displaying any wizard:
1. Specifying of concurrent license options
2. Specifying of the license server name
3. Installing of all the features

In the aforementioned command (see above):

• The value of 1 for the LICENSETYPE property indicates that you are using a node-locked license of the InstallShield SAB.
• The value of 2 for the LICENSETYPE property indicates that you are using a concurrent license of the InstallShield SAB.
• The value of 3 for the LICENSETYPE property indicates that you are using a Cloud License Server (CLS) concurrent license of the InstallShield SAB.

Additional Information:
Click here for the documentation about the command line parameters that the InstallShield SAB (ISCmdBld.exe) takes.

[varul]

To Activate CLSID using silent SAB installation use below command

InstallShield2023R2StandaloneBuild.exe /S /v/qn /VLICENSETYPE=3 /VADDLOCAL=ALL /VCLOUDSERVER=<CLSID>

we can confirm the same is activated or not under installshield SAB installdir system folder server.ini we can see the CLSID exists in server.ini 

Server.ini will contain below details

[FlexNet Publisher Server & FlexNet Embedded XT-Kit]

CLSServer=<CLS_ID>

[kmgoehr]

How can this be modified for /VLICENSETYPE=1?

The main post discusses how to use type 2 and there's a comment regarding how to use this for type 3. 

For my installation, I have a server that occasionally needs to be rehydrated such that I have to reinstall InstallShield. I'd like to automate this. 

How can I do a silent install with a node-locked license?

• The value of 1 for the LICENSETYPE property indicates that you are using a node-locked license of the InstallShield SAB.

I'm assuming I would omit /VSERVERNAME and /VPORTNUMBER as I am not using a license server. However, if I omit those the license isn't applied. 

Is there an additional parameter that would allow me to point the installation to the location of my license file?

Thanks!

[Santangeli]

Hi,

Could you help us with @kmgoehr's question? We're stuck with it after trying several "LICENCE" parameters that didn't work... 

Thank you