NAME

      ssControl - Controlling the Scan System

SYNOPSIS

      ssControl

DESCRIPTION

      ssControl provides a method of interactively  enabling  and  disabling
      the  scan  system,  each  of  the individual scan tasks, and each scan
      device point.

      On startup, this utility queries the scan config point in the database
      and determines the number of scan tasks, the status of the scan system
      and the status of each the scan tasks.

      At the top of the screen, the status of the scan system is  displayed.
      By  selecting  the  operation  of  Enable  Scan System or Disable Scan
      System and pressing the Execute pushbutton, the  scan  system  can  be
      enabled or disabled.

      The scan tasks and their statuses are placed in a scrolling  list.  By
      highlighting  one  of  the scan tasks in the scrolling list, selecting
      the operation of Enable Comm Port or Disable Comm  Port  and  pressing
      the  Execute pushbutton, the highlighted scan task or Comm Port can be
      enabled or disabled.

      The  scan  device  can   be   either   enabled/disabled   for   input,
      enabled/disabled  for  output,  or force polled by highlighting one of
      the scan devices in the scrolled  list,  selecting  the  operation  of
      Enable  Input , Disable Input , Enable Output , Disable Output , Force
      Poll and pressing the Execute pushbutton.

AUTHOR

      ssControl was developed by tesserNet Systems Inc.

SEE ALSO

      RtapScanMngr(1)