Instead, she opened the installation media. Inside the ANSYS/install folder, she found the hidden gem: setup.exe with the -silent flag.
setup.exe -silent -record_response C:\ansys_silent.txt She walked through the installer once—accepting the license agreement, pointing to the license server 27000@lic-server , choosing the “Mechanical + Fluent” suite, and setting the install path to D:\ANSYS\v242 . At the end, the installer saved her every click into ansys_silent.txt . ansys silent install
By 5:12 AM, all 120 machines reported success. Jenna ran a quick validation: Instead, she opened the installation media
She opened the file. It looked like this (anonymized): pointing to the license server 27000@lic-server