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Hi,

I have been trying to make Axe 3.3 a silent install. But I haven't found a way to make it a silent install as the Sentinel Run-time Environment Installer does not allow me to do that. Can anyone help me with this please.

Thank you very much in advance.

Sid

Hi Sid,

The way to do this is to install Sentinel HASP separately.
When you run the main Axe install suppress installation of HASP by using the MSI command-line option AXESETUP=/nohasp
Then from the installed Axe folder run 'haspdinst -i'.

Sam

That's Awesome.

Thanks you very much Sam.

Hi,
Can you give me a detailed instructions on the command line please? As I have used tried using that but I got no luck.

Thanks in advance

Hi,

If you are referring to the MSI installer, these is the standard Microsoft msi package. You dont need any further info.
For building and running Axe tests from the command-line, prefer refer to the Axe help, or run 'axecmd /?' for a list of options.

Sam

I have given the command line as msiexec.exe /i AxeSetup.msi AXESETUP=/nohasp. For which it did not install the haspdinst.exe but I have executed it later, after the program is being install. Am I suppose to the same thing for uninstall also. First give it a command like haspdinst.exe /r to remove it first and then remove the program.

Hi,
I am pretty sure the HASP runtime will still get removed with a regular MSI uninstall of Axe. But if you need to remove it manually then use haspdinst -r. (-h gives a full help).
Sam

Hi Sam,

I have used the Product code of the msi to uninstall it. It is not going for a silent uninstall. Is there anyway that I can get it work. I have this command line to make it work to uninstall it.

msiexec.exe /x AxeSetup.msi AXESETUP=/nohasp /qb. this one work, but we still have the License manger runtime running.

Thanks,
Sid

Hi Sid,

You may need to uninstall HASP separately with haspdinst -r.
Out if interest, why do you need an automated uninstall of Axe?

Sam

Since all the companies are trying to move to Windows 7 Environment. Regular user does not have the permissions to uninstall the software. So we need a command line or something that can make a silent uninstall. I have made a silent uninstall using the following procedure.

msiexec.exe /X<GUID> AXESETUP=/nohasp /qn
haspdinst -r /nomsg

Both of them wrapped in an executable for the silent uninstall to happen and it worked fine when deploying it through SCCM and also for a manual uninstall.

Hi Siddhartha,

Thank-you for sharing this information.

Please note that with Axe 3.4 (released earlier this week) you can now pass HASP install options direct to the Axe installer via the AXESETUP=/hasp:<arg> option e.g.
AXESETUP=/hasp:-nomsg

So it should be possible for you to do both the install and uninstall from a single command now.

Sam