Re: [foxboro] FoxAPi

What I did for PI:
In the script that starts the PI client I added a test for the presence of
the FoxAPI progs.
The count of 5 programs (-lt 5) includes the "grep foxapi" utility of
course.

while [ `ps -ef|grep foxapi|wc -l` -lt 5 ]
do
   echo "Foxapi not running yet"
   sleep 10
done

After this I run the PI start script.
Simple but at least a bit conditional. You can make it more intelligent of
course...



Regards

Ron Deen
Senior System Service Specialist
Invensys Systems N.V.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Johnson, Alex (Foxboro) [mailto:ajohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 4:15 PM
To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [foxboro] FoxAPi



FoxAPI should be started from /usr/fox/bin/fox_apps.dat. If you have
additional startups in /etc/fox/user_apps.dat or /etc/fox/rc.foxapps nothing
good will come of it.

However, it is reasonable to place a /bin/sleep <sometime> in
/usr/fox/bin/fox_apps.dat to ensure that FoxAPI has a chance to startup
completely before any applications that use it.


Regards,


Alex Johnson
System Products - Invensys Systems, Inc.
10707 Haddington
Houston, TX 77043
713.722.2859 (office)
713.722.2700 (switchboard)
713.932.0222 (fax)
ajohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ajohnson@xxxxxxxxxxx> 



        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Lowell, Tim: [SMTP:tlowell@xxxxxxxx]
        Sent:   Monday, December 17, 2001 8:50 AM
        To:     'foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
        Subject:        Re: [foxboro] FoxAPi


        Jef,

        Try going to /opt/fox/ais/bin and typing in the command P (simply
the
        capital letter P) at the Solaris prompt.  It will print out all the
        FoxAPI-related applications that are currently running.  You should
have at
        least the following:

        /opt/fox/ais/bin/foxapi om_poll
        /opt/fox/ais/bin/foxapi
        /opt/fox/ais/bin/foxapi wrtimr
        /opt/fox/ais/bin/foxapi wrproc
        /opt/fox/ais/bin/histlnbc

        You may also have an_server.tcp running a few times, depending on if
you
        have any special applications running.

        If you don't have these entries, FoxAPI is not really running.   You
should
        also check /usr/fox/bin/fox_apps.dat or /etc/fox/user_apps.dat to
make sure
        FoxAPI starts on reboot.  There should be an entry in one of those
files
        that refers somewhere to aisstart, such as go_ADDE6.

        Tim Lowell
        Control Systems Engineer
        Phillips Petroleum Company, Trainer Refinery
        Phone:  610-364-8362
        Fax:    610-364-8211
        tlowell@xxxxxxxx


                -----Original Message-----
                From:   jdesaeve@xxxxxxxxxxx [SMTP:jdesaeve@xxxxxxxxxxx]
                Sent:   Monday, December 17, 2001 8:55 AM
                To:     Foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
                Subject:        [foxboro] FoxAPi


                Hi,

                I would like to write a C program using FoxAPI calls like
        an_add_objects,
                an_poll_changes,...

                However when I start my programs , it tells me   "FoxAPI is
not
                running-Please restart application after FoxAPI is started
!"

                When I check with a ps command , FoxAPI is running !

                We are using FoxAPI ver 4.2.0   (I/A series ver 6.2.1)

                Jef Desaever
                Protein Technologies Int
                Zwaanhofweg 1
                8900 Ieper- Belgium


                 
                 
        
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