Activating Via A Configuration Template - Siemens SINUMERIK 840DE sl Commissioning Manual

There are different ways of activating the PCU Installer:
● If you complete the installation of the PCU-Basesoftware unattended, you can have the
PCU Installer activated via the unattend.xml response file. See Configuring an answer
file (Page 20).
● If you complete the installation of the PCU base software with Windows 7 attended, or have
not configured activation of the PCU Installer in the response file, you must activate the
PCU Installer manually. To do this, use one of the following procedures:
– Copy a preconfigured template of the PCUInst.ini to the "user" directory (Page 109)
– Create your own version of the PCUInst.ini in one of the user directories and set the
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Activating via a configuration template

Requirement
● The PCU Installer is deactivated
● The Service Desktop is active
● The PCU Installer has not been configured yet and there is no adapted PCUInst.ini
configuration file
Procedure
To activate the PCU Installer by copying a preconfigured template, proceed as follows:
1. Copy the following file to the clipboard: D:\etc\Template_PCUInst.ini
2. Paste the file into the following directory: C:\ProgramData\Siemens\MotionControl
\user\system\etc
3. Rename the copied file to PCUInst.ini
Result
The PCU Installer has been activated and checks the setup directories during startup of the
PC system, but not during system operation.
The copied configuration file only differs from the default configuration file by the following
value:
[processing_loginphase]
StartState=activated
The settings of the copied configuration file are used because they are in a directory with higher
priority than the default configuration file.
See: Directory structure and file conventions (Page 14)
To also use the PCU Installer during system operation, you must make an additional setting
in the copied configuration file (Page 112):
PCU Base Software (IM10)
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appropriate values
See: Reference to the PCUInst.ini configuration file (Page 112)
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