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Automatic Activation on many Macs

Luke Bock
Posted 11 years ago

Hey guys,

I need to get Mathematica 9.0.1 on to multiple computers on my campus. Everything for the PCs is set up already, but I'm running into one issue with the Mac setup. My campus uses the CasperSuites software to package and deploy our academic software to the various Macs we have, and I have somewhat successfully packaged the Mathematica software. When I deploy it to a computer remotely, it installs fine, but upon launch is asking the user to activate their product. Now, my campus has a License manager set up on our licensing server, so is there anyway I can set this up so that when Mathematica installs, it will automatically point to the server and activate without any user input?

Thanks in advance,

Luke
POSTED BY: Luke Bock
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One can put a mathpass file with just
!servername
into the installation .app, so it is copied around with the rest of the installation.

On Macintosh, the directory to put mathpass in is
   /Applications/Mathematica.app/Configuration/Licensing/

There may already be a "playerpass" file there. Leave it alone.
POSTED BY: Bruce Miller

I've never heard of Casper Suites before. Usually what happens is that you write a bash script or some other script that moves the file over and run it as an installation.
POSTED BY: Sean Clarke
POSTED BY: Sean Clarke
Luke Bock
Luke Bock
Posted 11 years ago

Hey Sean,

Thanks for the quick response!

I'm not sure if you're familiar with Casper Suites or not, but do you know if there is a way I can deploy Mathematica with it that would include the mathpass file?

I installed Mathematica manually on this machine, and pointed the licensing to our server with MathLM on it. I moved the Mathematica folder from ~/Library to /Library and the mathpass is in /Library/Mathematica/Licensing like you said, but I need that file to copy over when I deply.
POSTED BY: Luke Bock
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