Manual Server Startup

In manual server startup, you will log in to the server machine, and when prompted by AcuFieldView, you will start the server process on the server machine. The server process will then communicate to the client via a port.

Manual server start uses a server configuration file which specifies that the server process is to be started manually. Manual start is selected by setting autostart: false in the configuration file for the server machine that you are interested in.

The first step in using manual server start is to log in to the server machine from the client. This can be accomplished with whatever tool you normally use for this process. Typical tools are telnet and rlogin. You begin reading data in the same way as with an automatic start, by selecting a server. When AcuFieldView recognizes that the server is to be started manually, you will be prompted to start the manual server. At this point, you log into the server machine, start the server process, and click OK on the server start pop-up. You can then select the data file type and use the browser to pick the file that is to be read. In order to make it as easy as possible to use manual server start, AcuFieldView is designed to re-use a server that has been started manually whenever you replace the dataset on that server. A side effect of this is that you cannot re-use the server that you started manually to append datasets.