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Telestra App Note

Command Line Interface (#88)

ASTi Commands

asti-cmd radio <radio name> <radio operation> [<radio operation> …]

Where radio operation is one of the following:

set-id <protocol identifier>
set-domain <domain name>
get-status
get-changecount

The get-status operation returns a set of name=value pairs. For example, if a radio is set as follows:

Command: cmd> asti-cmd radio vhf1 set-id 3
Return: rsp> 1

Then a subsequent exchange might be:

Command: cmd> asti-cmd radio get-status
Return: rsp> set-id="3"

The get-changecount operation returns the current update changecount number of the specified radio or entity. A value of zero indicates that there are no host-specified updates applied to the radio or entity, it otherwise increments sequentially with each update.

DIS Radio Commands

asti-cmd dis-radio <radio name> <dis radio operation> [<dis radio operation> …]

Where dis radio operation is one of the following:

set-id <dis protocol identifier>
set-exercise <dis exercise number>

The dis protocol identifier is a two- or four-part number each of which must be in the range 1 to 65535. The two forms are:

<site>.<app>.<entity>.<radio>
<entity>.<radio> (site and app use defaults)

Add a marking field specification by appending a colon and the marking field value:

1.2.3.4:viper2

The above example sets the default radio ID to 1.2.3.4 for use when a matching entity is not present. When an entity with a matching marking field (viper2) becomes present, the site.app.entity. IDs are derived from that matching entity.

The dis exercise number must be in the range of 1 to 255.

All of the set-… operations also return the resulting changecount number.

If a value of -1 is returned this indicates a syntax error occurred on an operation and a corresponding diagnostic message is written to the system log.

Example ASTi DIS Radio Commands

asti-cmd dis-radio Radio set-id 1.2.1.1
asti-cmd dis-radio Radio set-id 4.4.4.4:TstEntity3
asti-cmd dis-radio Radio set-id 8.243
asti-cmd dis-radio Radio set-exercise 2

Telestra User Commands

The ace-user command allows the user to retrieve key information about the Telestra server and to control certain aspects of the Telestra server. This command is not intended to duplicate the more detailed information available via the Telestra web interface.

The following subcommands are available for the ace-user command:

health: display health summary
help: display command list
install-layout: install a layout
load: install the default load on Telestra server
status: display status of Telestra server

The following subcommands are available for the ace-user command in software version 4.20 or above:

start: starts the load
stop: stops the load
reboot: reboots the Telestra server
shutdown: shuts down the Telestra server

ace-user health

The ace-user health command returns an exit status of 0 if the Telestra server's health indicates no errors or a non-zero status if errors exist. To verify this, issue the command echo $? immediately after issuing the desired ace-user health command. Additionally, several levels of verbosity may be specified. See the examples below.

Example 1:
Health status with minimal verbosity requested when no errors exist.
Command: ace-user health
Return: Status: Good

Example 2:
Health status with minimal verbosity requested when model is not running.
Command: ace-user health
Return: Status: Model not running

Example 3:
Health status with minimal verbosity requested when errors exist.
Command: ace-user health
Return: Status: Errors exist

Example 4:
Health status with medium verbosity requested when errors exist.
Command: ace-user health -v
Return: Status: Errors exist

ace-user help

The ace-user help command provides a brief summary of available subcommands.

Example:
Command: ace-user help
Return: Legal commands are:
health: display health summary - ace-user health [-v]
help: display command list
install-layout: install a layout - ace-user install-layout repository layout
load: install default load on Telestra server
status: display status of Telestra server

ace-user install-layout

The ace-user install-layout command is used to request the specified layout, which is loaded from the specified project.

Example:
The install-layout command is used to install the layout from the project.
Command: ace-user install-layout <Project name> <Layout name>
Return: Layout installed on localhost

ace-user load

The ace-user load command is used to load the default project and layout. If no default project is configured, the current project is reloaded.

Example:
The load command used to load the default project and layout.
Command: ace-user load
Return: Load installed on localhost

ace-user status

The ace-user status command is used to display the current status of the Telestra server.

Example:
The following command is used to display current status.
Command: ace-user status
Return: [Workload]
Default: radio_target1
InUse: radio_target1
Running: True
Status: ['https://ace-target.local/projects/Prod_Radios', 'default', 'radio_target1', True, 1241550496]
[Repository]
URL: https://ace-target.local/projects/Prod_Radios

ace-user start

The ace-user start command is used to start the default load.

Example:
The following command is used to start the default load.
Command: ace-user start
Return: Load started.

ace-user stop

The ace-user stop command is used to stop the load.

Example:
The following command is used to stop the load.
Command: ace-user stop
Return: Load stopped.

ace-user reboot

The ace-user reboot command is used to reboot the Telestra server.

Example:
The following command is used to reboot the Telestra server.
Command: ace-user reboot
Return: The system is going down for reboot NOW! Rebooting target...

ace-user shutdown

The ace-user shutdown command is used to shut down the Telestra server.

Example:
The following command is used to shutdown the Telestra server.
Command: ace-user shutdown
Return: The system is going down for system halt NOW! Shutting down target...