man8/BPMserv

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Name

BPMserv - BPM management server

Synopsis

BPMserv <argument list>

Description

The BPM management server.

This program is written as a daemon and should not be started in the background.

Arguments

Argument processing is done using Unix long argument syntax.

The values of all of the parameters listed here (whether or not they were supplied on the command line) are printed on stderr when the program starts.

--dbman_host <hn>

The name of the host dbman(8) is running.
--mngr <fn>
The pathname to the MNGRconf file.
--mngr_pn <pn>
The program name to use when parsing the --mngr file.
--no_daemon

If this argument is present the program doesn’t become a daemon.
--show_tbl

Print the MNGRconf and BPM_CONFIG table info to stderr.
--help

print the help info and exit

Configuration name usage

Multiple groups are supported. One group per BPM. The index field is used for multiple switching in one group.
comm1
button row "A"
comm2
button row "B"
comm3
button row gain buttons

Examples


#
# one bpm with 2 busses
#
The collector and fid are both switched by one datapoint.
BPMserv|g1|comm1 |0|BPM 01-1|SScollA |
BPMserv|g1|comm2 |0|BPM 01-1|SScollB |
BPMserv|g1|comm3 |0|BPM 01-1|GainSC |
#
#
# device with two datapoints to be switched
#
BPMserv|g7|comm1 |0|SRS 02-1|SScollA |
BPMserv|g7|comm1 |1|SEQ 01-1|SSmbsMa |
BPMserv|g7|comm2 |0|SRS 02-1|SScollB |
BPMserv|g7|comm2 |1|SEQ 01-1|SSmbsMb |

Manual page revision

$Id: BPMserv.8,v 1.2 2007/07/12 15:36:47 kitchen Exp $

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