Perle Systems SCS, STS manual Custom App/Plugin, Overview

Management

Recurring Start Sets the relative date and time in which the IOLAN’s clock will change to

Datesummer time (daylight saving time) hours. Sunday is considered the first day of the week.

Recurring End Date Sets the relative date and time in which the IOLAN’s clock will end summer time hours and change to standard time. Sunday is considered the first day of the week.

Custom App/Plugin

Overview

You can create custom applications for the IOLAN by using the Perle SDK. See the SDK Programmer’s Guide (the SDK and guide are found on the Perle website at www.perle.com/downloads/index.shtml) for information about the functions that are supported. You must download the program and any ancillary files to the IOLAN and set the Serial Port Profile to Custom App/Plugin to run a custom application. You must also specify the program executable in the Command Line parameter.

A custom application or plugin can be run on the serial port. In this situation, the application will start once the serial port is activated and operate solely on the context of that serial port and any network communications related to that serial port. You could run a different custom application on each serial port. The serial port custom application or plugin is configured by specifying the Custom App/Plugin profile for the serial port.

The system level custom application or plugin will begin execution immediately following the system startup. It runs on the context of the whole system and can access network communications as well as any or all serial ports.

Field Description

Configure the following parameter:

Command Line The name of the application that has been already been downloaded to the IOLAN, plus any parameters you want to pass to the program. For example, using sample outraw program (this is sample program supplied with the SDK), you would type:

outraw -s 0 192.168.2.1:10001 Acct:10001

if you were starting the application on the Server (notice the -s 0 parameter specifies serial port 1 to this particular application).

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