For us the silent deployment install is working since a couple of versions. Together with RoyalRender updating the whole farm is easy. For plugins you have workgroups, and some applications (e.g. Nuke) can be installed on the network.
/Thomas > Mirko Jankovic <[email protected]> hat am 16. Mai 2013 um 20:21 > geschrieben: > > Now thinking about it... wouldn't it be good and even needed to have beside > install option on installer something like install to render nodes or > something to help out mass installation? > Even on 10 more computers is time consuming now add a 0 there or something.. > > How are you guys handling installation and management on small and medium > render farms at all? > Installation, upgrades, addons and upgrades of addons... > Sorry for a bit of a hijack but it is kinda same topic right? > > > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Francois Lord <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > In my never ending quest to find a way to install Softimage automatically > > and simply on all machines, I have yet again hit a road block. > > Last year, after several days of failed attempts, I resorted to > > installing it manually on my machine and copying the folder on the other > > machines. I had to copy the ProductInformation.pit file from C:\Program Data > > and I had to run the runonce.bat file. And then all was well and dandy. > > Easily scriptable and no human intervention required. > > > > This year however, things seem different. When I do the same, Softimage > > can't find a license. This is where the ProductInformation.pit file was > > required last year, but it seems it's not enough now. > > > > I noticed there is a new License.env file in the Application\bin folder. > > But it contains the right informations about our license server since I ran > > the installer on my machine. I don't know if it has anything to do with all > > this. > > > > Any one has bits of info on this? > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > Francois > > >
