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Scorpion can send or receive
commands and values to or from other applications over Internet
Messenger. Thus Scorpion can be configured and managed from external
systems. These can also be other Scorpion systems. An external system may
also send commands, set values in or receive values from Scorpion.
The dialogue to set the
connection for the Internet Messenger command protocol is
shown below. The window will continuously show the commands and values
transmitted between Scorpion and the external system.
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Active - Enable / Disable tcp/ip communication
- Send Command Response - default off - activated for
debugging purposes
Connection
- Remote - tcp/ip and port number - example
"localhost:8701'
- Listenport - listen port
- Can Receive - checked if listen port is open
Options
- Show in message - displays
incoming packets in event trace - default on
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Show out messages -
displays outgoing packets in event trace - default on
- Write log to file -
activate when you need to have a persistence trace - default off
Note 1: For testing tcp/ip communication a
TestIMTDVCmdProtocol program is available.
Note 2:
Implementing a Server / Client using Python means that you can implement
any protocol -
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