Starting boards automatically

Using keywords, you can configure each board to start automatically whenever the Natural Access Server (ctdaemon) starts, or when the board is Hot Swap inserted. You can also configure the boards to stop automatically whenever ctdaemon exits.

Note: When a board is Hot Swap extracted, it is stopped automatically regardless of the keyword settings. The board is stopped when its ejector handles are lifted.

To configure boards to start or stop automatically:

Step

Action

1

For each board that you want to start or stop automatically, set the AutoStart or AutoStop keywords to Yes.

AutoStart and AutoStop are set to No by default.

2

Set the Supervisor keywords AutoStartEnabled or AutoStopEnabled to Yes. These keywords enable auto-starting or auto-stopping of all boards whose AutoStart or AutoStop keywords are set to Yes.

You can set Supervisor keywords directly in the system configuration file, as shown in the following example:

[Supervisor]
AutoStartEnabled = Yes
AutoStopEnabled = Yes


Consider the following information when automatically starting and stopping boards: