This page details everything you need to do to have a working version of the data generator on your system.

Before you begin

Please check our data generation requirements.

We do not require elevated access to execute the CLI executable.

Installation

CLI binary

All distributions of the data generator CLI binaries are packaged using zip for all host operating systems.

1. Download the latest data generator for your operating system.
2. Extract the compressed file/Copy CLI binary to a folder of your choosing.
3. If you have not already activated your Test Data Manager license, you must do that now. You can do this from the data generator command-line. For more details see Activating your license
4. OPTIONAL Add data generator folder to your PATH so it's accessible from anywhere in your environment.
5. OPTIONAL Try the --version command to check the data generator is running correctly.
6. You are now ready to run the data generator! To further explore what the data generator can do, check out the command-line reference guide and have a go at the worked examples.