Is there a way to replicate an installation?

[Bob-O-Rama]

I'm looking for either a way to "install everything and the kitchen sink" in terms of LabView + Drivers and optional components / packages that we have entitlements to, thereby eliminating to pick from the a la carte application buffet.

-OR-

a way to let our lab manager take a single workstation, pick drivers and additional packages ( including downloaded packages via the JK Package Manager ) and turn that into a touchless / scripted install.   Is there a way to do this?

Our situation is that the workstations are in academic lab settings where they are locked down with DeepFreeze which gleefully rolls out anything the user's have done to the machines to keep them from mutating - so letting people pick what they want after deployment is not an options.   Nor do we want to have to enumerate a semi-infinite number of pieces that our lab manager wishes to have and then manually install them on a number of workstations.

Ideally something that takes an inventory of NI "stuff" and burps out a config / script we can replay on another machine with a base install would do it.

Thanks!

-- Bob

[ianidas300]

Hello Bob,

There are two ways to do this that I would suggest as follows:

-The first would be to create a single software image on one computer that you can install and activate software on then deploy to multiple machines. Here is a good link for setting this up: http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/epd/p/id/6283

-Or you can set up a large scale installation using a shared network. Here is a good link for setting this up: http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/24C3FC6A087D9D37862573C6005A466B?OpenDocument

That link also refers to a document that will help you get started with creating a spec file which helps automate (called a silent install) the install process.

Hope this helps!