CW
Hi Support / Community!
While using the ARIS Professional version, we also have the wish to use ARIS Express in our company - potentially hundreds of users.
Problem is, that the normal user in our company is not allowed to download applications from the internet - all client software is scriptet and installed from our intranet.
Therefore we would like some suggestion on how to go about this. We see there is a express.jnlp file.
- are there other files we would need to use in order to install it from inhouse servers?
- we are aware that there are frequent updates - updating the .jnlp file on our server - would that be adequate?
- Is there an install package to be used / or is there one planned for the near future?
- Is it possible to use a dummy user and password combination to avoid having hundreds of our users to register? (I know it would look good on the Community statistics, but it is not very convenient for us).
Thanks for your replies and views.
Regards Carsten
Hi Sebastian,
I also need information about the ARIS Express enterprise deployment possibilities. For your info: We have the professional aris server environment and some full clients. But for distributed modelling we would like to use aris express. It is the same situation that carsten describes.
Thanks in advance
Martin
Hi Support/Community,
Hi Sebastian,
We would like to use ARIS Express in our University, too. It should be installed on 80 PCs and the users do not have sufficient rights to download the software. So we have the same questions as Carsten Wolff, could you please contact me by mail, too.?
Best regards,
Björn
Folks, just to prevent some misunderstandings: There is no enterprise version of ARIS Express. Every user of ARIS Express still needs to register his personal copy using his ARIS Community account. Sharing accounts is not allowed by the license.
If you want to change the install directory, you have to change the Java Cache Path in your system settings. Anything else is currently not possible.
Hi! Regarding ARIS Express and deployment. Is it possible to distribute the application in any other way to many client computers?
As someone stated above - the users dont have any administrator rights on their clients. It would be really useful to distribute the installation as a silent install for all users, and of course they need to register their own personal account at first start.
Any tips about deplyment and distribution about ARIS Express is very helpful. Thanks!
/Donnie
Hi Daniel,
if your users don't have admin rights, the best way to move forward is to ask your IT to install the app for them. This can be done automatically with a deployment system. On first startup, every user will still need to register his copy by creating an ARIS Community account. Using one account to register all copies is not allowed by the license.
Many thanks for your reply and your suggestions! Very helpful. I was trying to make a suitable package of the installation (a capture), but for every new user that logs into the computer, the Aris Express states something like "The program is not available offline", and then starts to download a new set of files.
My guess is that the Java temp path is different for every user (default setting is a temporary folder in the user profile path). I tried redirecting the path into something like C:\ARISEXPRESS\ and the distribute this folder. But the same occurs.
Is there any documentation about your recomendations about creating a package or a distributable installation?
Many thanks again!
/Daniel
Hi Daniel,
ARIS Express must be installed for every user. It is not like an ordinary program which you can put under program files. As you mention yourself, the java cache path is distinct for each user. A deployment package must copy the setup file to the PC and run it for each user it should be installed.
Unfortunately, we currently don't have good documentation on that issue. But we are working on an improved setup, which will simplify deployment in enterprises. We plan to release this in the coming months (maybe weeks). This release will come along with a documentation.
Hallo, can you please guide me also through the possibilities to deploy multiple instances of aris express?
We use VMware virtualization. Do we really need to activate manually all domain users within educational class? These are linked clone machines, meaning, if I refresh the golden image, I must re-register all the clone machines every time to run aris express?
