User Manual

2.25.6 Terminal

The terminal tab gives you access to the debug console of a MNC system. This is a valuable tool to inspect the low level communication to devices which are controlled by the M&C.

terminal-web

The terminal window consists of a display area which shows the debug output of the MMC and a command entry field at the bottom of the window. The tool bar at the top gives you access to the following functions:

MNC: Select an MNC to which you want to start the terminal connection.
Switch: After selecting an MNC you have to toggle this switch to start connect or disconnect the terminal connection. Green means terminal is connected.
Stop/play icon: It pauses or resumes the terminal session.
Close icon: It's clear the terminal display area.

After the terminal display area there are 'Command' input and 'send' icon. You can just type in command input and press 'enter' key to send command.

A command history of the current terminal session is available via up and down cursor keys.

Debug commands

In the input line at the bottom of the window, you can enter a number of debugging commands that can be helpful, for example, when testing new device drivers.

The following commands may be entered:

command	description
`get <msg-id>`	Get the current value of an parameter with the ID `<msg-id>`
`set <msg-id> <v>`	Set parameter with the ID `<msg-id>` to a value as it would entered by the user
`loop <msg-id> <v>`	Set parameter with the ID `<msg-id>` to a value as it would read from the device
`touch <msg-id>`	Force the parameter with `<msg-id>` to be read from the device with the next driver cycle
`threads`	Show a comprehensive list of device threads
`thread <n>`	Show details of thread number `<n>`
`peers`	Show peers / list of connected clients
`peer <n> (view\|verbose\|silent\|kill)`	Details and functions of peer number `<n>`
`restart`	Restart MNC service (same as restart button in client)
`shutdown`	Stops MNC service. Attention: service has to be restarted on the command line
`nolimit`	make the 'debug.log' file unlimited in size.
`limit`	make the 'debug.log' file limited in size again. The MNC always starts always with limit activated
`csm-debug`	toggles the debug output of all (legacy) CSM spectrum analyzers ON/OFF. The debug output appears in the `.panic.log` file.

Please refere to the chapter Debugging with Terminal Session in the sat-nms Universal device driver language reference manual.