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CLI

The command-line interface (CLI) to the Adapter provides some helpful commands, including:

  • show all available commands (help)
  • run the Adapter
  • generate a default top-level config file
  • generate a default protocol-specific config file for specified profiles
  • list all the provided protocol plugins

Help​

Prints a short description of all the available commands and parameters.

Result: 

openfmb-adapter -h

Result:

Options

    -h, --help
        show this help message
    -l, --list
        list available plugins
    -v, --version
        display version information
    -c, --config
        run with the specified config file
    -g, --generate
        generate the specified config file
    -s, --schema
        generate a JSON schema
    -p, --plugin
        the plugin for which to generate configuration
    -f, --profile
        profile to generate

Generate top-level configuration​

A default top-level configuration may be generated using the -g flag. This file is needed when running the Adapter (see Running the adapter).

openfmb-adapter -g config.yml

Generate configuration for a plugin​

Some plugins, notably the Adapter-type protocol plugins, need extra configuration in separate files. The output file is specified with the -g argument. The plugin for which the config is generated is specified with the -p argument. The desired profile is specified with the -f argument.

Multiple profiles can be generated for a single configuration file by providing multiple -f parameters:
openfmb-adapter -g dnp3-master.yml -p dnp3-master -f SolarReadingProfile -f SolarStatusProfile

Generate configuration JSON schemas​

Each YAML configuration file has JSON schemas that can be printed to a file to help with writing valid configurations.

To generate the top-level schema, run the following: 

openfmb-adapter -s config.json

To generate the schema for a particular plugin, run the following: 

openfmb-adapter -s dnp3-master.json -p dnp3-master

The --pretty-print argument can also be used to produce human-readable schema files. Note that these files are particularly large for plugins and pretty-printing should be used only for debugging purposes.

To learn how to leverage these schemas in your editing environment, see the Schemas page.

Running the adapter​

The adapter is run using the -c flag. To stop the adapter, hit Ctrl-C on the keyboard.

openfmb-adapter -c [config.yml]

List plugins​

All available plugins compiled in this instance of the adapter can be listed using the -l flag.

openfmb-adapter -l

Result:

available plugins:

capture           - captures published OpenFMB messages to a replayable file format
dds-rti           - publish/subscribe to DDS using RTI bindings (requires run-time license)
dnp3-master       - maps openFMB to the master side of the DNP3 protocol
dnp3-outstation   - maps openFMB to the outstation side of the DNP3 protocol
log               - pretty prints profiles to the log
modbus-master     - maps OpenFMB to the Modbus protocol
modbus-outstation - maps the Modbus protocol to OpenFMB
mqtt              - publish/subscribe to a MQTT broker
nats              - publish/subscribe to a NATS server
replay            - replays captured OpenFMB messages from a file
timescaledb       - saves all the published messages to a TimescaleDB

Version​

The git commit date and hash of the code compiled in this instance of the adapter can be listed using the -v flag. The hash can be used on GitHub to retrieve the exact code used, simply go to https://github.com/openenergysolutions/openfmb.adapters/commit/{HASH}.

openfmb-adapter -v

Result:

git commmit date: 2019-10-10
git commmit hash: d97428d36b3c311004deac38936573fc67237f0e