oamStartBoard

Starts one or more boards.

Prototype

DWORD oamStartBoard ( CTAHD ctahd, const char *szName )

Argument

Description

ctahd

[in] Context handle.

szName

[in] Pointer to the name of board to start. Set to NULL to start all boards in parallel.


Return values

Return value

Description

SUCCESS

 

CTAERR_SVR_COMM

Natural Access Server is not running.

OAMERR_CANT_CREATE_THREAD

Cannot create thread to do asynchronous operations.

OAMERR_NOT_FOUND

Board szName not found.

OAMERR_SERVER_NOT_RUNNING

Supervisor is shut down.


Events

Event

Description

OAMEVN_STARTBOARD_DONE

Function completed successfully. The event value field contains the result of the board starting attempt:

OAM_REASON_FINISHED
Board started successfully.

OAM_REASON_FAILED
Board start attempt failed. Further information is available in the OAM_MSG message buffer.


Details

oamStartBoard starts the specified board, or all boards in parallel. Because this function can incur delay, it is an asynchronous call that returns immediately and is followed by an alert notification on completion.

For more information, see Starting, stopping, and testing boards.

See also

oamStopBoard, oamTestBoard