08 - Downloading, Installing, and Deploying

Downloading, Installing, and Deploying Releases and Updates using Download Manager

Use Cadence® Download Manager to install and update the Cadence® OrCAD® X and Allegro® X products. Download Manager lists all releases and add-on products available for installation. The Status column displays the current status of a release: not installed (Get), update available (Update), or installed (Updated). Clicking Get installs the latest update, if available. To access the Cadence downloads link, you must have an active Cadence license.

• Click Get or Update or a listed release or add-on to download and install the release or add-on. You can also click Install for a selected release to start the installation.
• Choose Check for update from the account icon on the toolbar to view and refresh the listed releases and updates.
• Choose Setting from the account icon on the toolbar to open the Settings form to specify download settings and to schedule automatic updates.

Setting Installation Source

Choose the Work offline/online option from the settings to toggle the source of your downloads to either a local cache or the Internet. You can use the Internet option only if you have a valid Cadence login ID. You can set the login and proxy information in the Preferences dialog box.

Setting Silent Install

You can perform silent or unattended installation from Download Manager. You can set the Always perform silent installation for downloaded media option in Settings dialog box to perform all installations in the silent mode. You can also choose Silent Install from the more (..) button to perform silent install of a specific release or update.

When you perform a silent installation, you need to select a silent install file that defines the various installation parameters.

Scheduling Automatic Updates

1. Open the Settings dialog box from the account icon on the toolbar.
2. In the Update Mode list, select the update mode.
   • Select Download, which is the default, to automatically download the latest updates for the selected package.
   • Select Download and Install to automatically download and then install the latest updates.
   • Select Notify to receive a notification whenever the latest update is available.
3. In the Schedule Time group, specify the frequency and recurrence of the updates.

Setting Local Cache

1. Open the Settings dialog box from the account icon on the toolbar.
2. Specify the Path or browse to a location.
   By default, the Path field specifies the Windows Roaming Application Data directory (%AppData%\Roaming\Cadence\DownloadManager\LocalCache\) as the local cache.

   All downloads are stored in this directory.

3. You can choose to always perform a silent installation.

Deploying Across an Enterprise

You can download available releases and updates to a local cache and give access to users to be able to install releases from the cache using Download Manager. If you set the group on policy, users will not be able to view or download releases from the Internet using the download Manager.