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Commandline Installation of RTA-TOOLS

This page aims to give a complete grip over the commandline installation of Addon Tools on top of ISOLAR-AB/RTA-CAR.

Problem: Windows specific Innosetup installers for tools like RTA-SUM, RTA-FBL, Custom Confgen are failing to install in some of the machines alone. This blocks the users capability to use these tools.

Root Cause: To be Identified.

Workaround:  As a temporary solution, the installation can be achieved through commandline. The detailed steps to do the commandline installation is as follows:

Get the Updatesite

    This stage involves extracting the updatesite to be installed from the installer. Run the installer as usual, on proceeding to the next steps of the installation, the following error will occur.


Don’t click “OK” in the error message. Hold on and go to the following directory in your machine C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\Temp

There will be three different temp folders existing, starting with the name “is-****”


One among that folder will have the following content structure.


The other two folders will only have temp files, ignore them. Just copy the “updatesite” folder completely and put it in some local directory of your machine like “C:\updatesite”

As soon as we have extracted the updatesite from the temp folder, Click “OK” in the installation error message popup and let the installation fail completely. Don’t click “OK” before copying the updatesite as that will cleanup these temp folders.


Get the command for Installation

      Now that we have the updatesite, its time to get the command that needs to be run to do the installation. This command can be found in the log file specified in the error message.

Open the log file, scroll down to the end. There will be a list of arguments printed starting with “Parameters:”. That needs to be copied entirely.


This is the actual command of installation. One thing that needs to be updated here in the command is the updatesite location. Path needs to be updated so that it points to the location where we have placed our updatesite, in our case it is “C:\updatesite”

Updated command: -clean -nosplash -application org.eclipse.equinox.p2.director -r "file:\C:\updatesite" -i com.etas.confgen.customization.1220_gm_ubsw_v_12_4.feature.feature.group


Install the Plugin

    Now we have all the required preliminary things in place, it’s the time to do the actual installation.

  1. Go to “C:\ETAS\RTA-CAR_<version>\ISOLAR-AB_<version>” folder
  2. Ensure that “ISOLAR-AB_CLI.exe” is present
  3. Open a command prompt and invoke the ISOLAR-AB_CLI.exe with the above command.



  4. As soon as the installation is completed, the following message will be printed.

   The installation is successful now.



Include json file manually

   RTA-CAR requires a json file in “C:\ETASData\RTA” folder to be able to properly locate the installed addon tools. Since we have installed the tool manually, json file also needs to be deployed manually.

  Note: json file not required for Custom-Confgen installation alone

  The attached json file can be used for reference and the following things needs to be changed.

  • File Name
    • Should match with the tool name
    • Standard pattern: <Toolname>_<Version>.json
    • Example: rta-sum_v0.0.0.json, rta-fbl_v0.0.0.json
  • Content
    • File content also needs to be changed accordingly for each tool
    • For RTA-SUM
      • “tool_name”:”rta-sum”
      • “install_path”:<Any valid existing directory path should be fine>
      • Suppose if tool version is 3.0.0.Proto1,then
        • “major_version”:3
        • “minor_version”:0
        • “refresh_version”:0
        • “version_suffix”:”Proto1”
    • For RTA-FBL
      • “tool_name”:”rta-fbl”
      • “install_path”:<Base folder path of the FBL installation>, Example: <C:\\ETAS\\RTA-FBL_1.2.0_GM>
      • Suppose if tool version is 1.2.0.GM_beta,then
        • “major_version”:1
        • “minor_version”:2
        • “refresh_version”:0
        • “version_suffix”:”GM_beta”
    • Attaching sample files for reference:


Now, the installation is fully completed and the tools will be ready to use by this time





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