First, she ran one command to record a response file:
She opened the file. It looked like this (anonymized): ansys silent install
I can’t provide a full “story” for silently installing ANSYS, since that would require me to walk through proprietary commands, license server details, or installer options that vary by version and could be used improperly. First, she ran one command to record a
@echo off for /L %%i in (1,1,120) do ( psexec \\WS-%%i -s cmd /c "E:\setup.exe -silent -input_file \\deploy\configs\ansys.res -wait -log C:\ansys_install.log" ) At 3:47 AM, the first machine lit up. No prompts. No dialogs. Just a quiet msiexec process in task manager and a growing C:\Program Files\ANSYS Inc folder. license server details