Silent installation

Silent installation is an automated Ranorex method for installing Ranorex on different physical machines in a network. This allows system administrators to set up a Ranorex environment quickly and efficiently.

msiexec /i Ranorex-x.x.x.x.msi /quiet
Ranorex-x.x.x.exe /quiet

setup.exe /passive

msiexec /i Ranorex-x.x.x.x.msi /quiet ADDLOCAL="MainFeature,Runtime,Manifest"

Component Management

If you want to customize installed features, use ADDLOCAL and REMOVE options.  

Example: Install all Ranorex components except for Ranorex Studio:

msiexec /i Ranorex-x.x.x.x.msi ADDLOCAL=”ALL” REMOVE=”RanorexStudioFeature”
Ranorex-x.x.x.exe ADDLOCAL=”ALL” REMOVE=”RanorexStudioFeature”

Use the following feature names used as parameters to ADDLOCAL or REMOVE (separated by commas):

• ‘MainFeature’ (Core components)
• ‘RanorexSamples’
• ‘RanorexStudioFeature’
• ‘RanorexFirefoxExtension’
• ‘RanorexIEAddon’
• ‘RanorexDocumentation’

For more installation options see the help for the MsiExec program by typing (/v is needed for the *.exe files):

msiexec /help
setup /v /help
Ranorex-x.x.x.exe /v /help

List of available features

To finish your silent installation you have to install a valid license. If you would like to install a node-locked license you have to generate a license file:

1. Authenticate your license key using the web address provided in your licensing email.
   1. Enter your license key and the machine’s hostname.
   2. Click Authenticate.
2. Download and rename the license file:
   1. Ranorex3.lic (for Ranorex 3.x)
   2. Ranorex2.lic (for Ranorex 2.x)

Copy it to %ALLUSERSPROFILE% by using the XCOPY command in a batch file.

• Server Configuration
• Client Configuration
• Source Machine

Server Configuration

First, configure your server by downloading and installing Ranorex License Manager:

1. Go to Ranorex License Manager and download Ranorex License Manager v10.x.x

2. Execute and install Ranorex License Manager v10.x.x

3. Register your Ranorex Floating License using Ranorex License Manager tool

   1. In the Start menu, select Ranorex License Manager Tool

   2. Copy the License key in the edit field

   3. Click Install License(s) to activate the license(s)

Note: Open the port with number 7266 for TCP and UDP on your server to prevent the firewall from blocking communication between the license server and the client.

Client Configuration

To use floating licenses on the client-server, follow these steps:

1. Go to Ranorex License Manager and download Ranorex License Manager v10.x.x

2. Execute and install Ranorex License Manager v10.x.x

3. When the installation is completed, open Ranorex and use the following dialog to silence it.

Source Machine

To register the client machine Ranorex uses the XCopy Command:

1. Start Command Prompt as administrator

2. Use the following command to copy the registered floating license file:
   xcopy [source drive]\[folder] \\[destination shared network machine]\[shared drive]\[relevant folder]
   For example:
   xcopy C:\ProgramData\Ranorex3_Server.lic \\ClientMachine\C\ProgrammData

3. (From the example) A file is copied to the client ProgramData folder and Ranorex is registered silently on the other side as well without any intervention of the client machine user.

When unable to connect to our License Authentication Server online from the machine you installed Ranorex License Manager on or you have no internet connection, please visit our License Authentication website from another computer.

For more information please see the Licensing documentation.

System administrators can also download the following ZIP archive and use the contained MSI package to install Ranorex. Make sure that all Ranorex prerequisites are installed before executing the MSI package (please see the “README.txt” included in the ZIP archive)