Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian SE 3.0 UniInt Interface User Guide User Manual

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Interface Startup Parameters

6

Parameter

Description

Point Loading

0x0040

Time Functions

0x0400

Digital State Caching

0x2000

/DisableCounters

Optional

Windows Performance counters are enabled by default.
Counters can be disabled by specifying

/disablecounters

on the command-line.

/ec

or

/ec=#

Optional

The first instance of the

/ec

parameter on the command-line

is used to specify a counter number,

#

, for an I/O Rate point.

If

#

is not specified, then the default event counter is 1. Also, if

the /ec parameter is not specified at all, there is still a default
event counter of 1 associated with the interface. If there is an
I/O Rate point that is associated with an event counter of 1,
each copy of the interface that is running without

/ec=#

explicitly defined will write to the same I/O Rate point. This
means that one should either explicitly define an event
counter other than 1 for each copy of the interface or one
should not associate any I/O Rate points with event counter 1.
Configuration of I/O Rate points is discussed in the section I/O
Rate Points
(page 25)

For interfaces that run on Windows nodes, subsequent
instances of the

/ec

parameter may be used by specific

interfaces to keep track of various input or output operations.
One must consult the interface-specific documentation to see
whether subsequent instances of the

/ec

parameter have

any effect. Subsequent instances of the

/ec

parameter can

be of the form

/ec*,

where

*

is any ASCII character

sequence. For example,

/ecinput=10

,

/ecoutput=11

,

and

/ec=12

are legitimate choices for the second, third, and

fourth event counter strings.

/f=SS

or

/f=SS,SS

or

/f=HH:MM:SS

or

/f=HH:MM:SS,hh:mm:ss

Required for reading scan-
based inputs

The

/f

parameter defines the time period between scans in

terms of hours (

HH

), minutes (

MM

), and seconds (

SS

). The

scans can be scheduled to occur at discrete moments in time
with an optional time offset specified in terms of hours (

hh

),

minutes (

mm

), and seconds (

ss

). If

HH

and

MM

are omitted,

then the time period that is specified is assumed to be in
seconds.

Each instance of the

/f

parameter on the command-line

defines a scan class for the interface. There is no limit to the
number of scan classes that can be defined. The first
occurrence of the

/f

parameter on the command-line defines

the first scan class of the interface; the second occurrence
defines the second scan class, and so on. Historian Points are
associated with a particular scan class via the Location4
Historian Point attribute. For example, all Historian Points that
have Location4 set to 1 will receive input values at the
frequency defined by the first scan class. Similarly, all points
that have Location4 set to 2 will receive input values at the
frequency specified by the second scan class, and so on.

Two scan classes are defined in the following example:

/f=00:01:00,00:00:05 /f=00:00:07

or, equivalently:

/f=60,5 /f=7

The first scan class has a scanning frequency of 1 minute with

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