INtime® 3.1 Software - tenAsys

9 Operation
This chapter describes how to start and operate INtime software.
You can treat the RT kernel and associated INtime applications as Windows services
and start them automatically when Windows initializes.
In the event of a Windows blue screen crash, INtime software keeps running until a
graceful shutdown occurs. To start INtime software again, you must first restart Windows.
Starting the RT kernel and related components
1. Open the Windows Service Manager (Start>Control Panel>Administrative
Tools>Services).
The Windows Services table lists these INtime services:
Service
INtime Kernel
Loader
INtime Clock
Synchronization
service
INtime Event Log
service
Table 9-1. INtime software’s Windows services
Default
startup setting Description
Manual Loads the RT kernel binary image into memory and
starts it. Uses loadrtk.exe.
Automatic A Windows program that synchronizes RT client time-ofday
clock with the Windows host’s time-of-day clock.
Automatic
A Windows program that acts as a gateway to allow RT
applications to log events in the system event log on the
Windows host.
INtime I/O service Automatic A Windows program that acts as a server to RT “C”
library to obtain a console window for display (via printf)
of application data and to receive (via scanf) user input
from the system keyboard.
This service also provides Windows file system support
to the RT “C” library.
INtime Node
Detection service
Automatic
A Windows program that detects RT clients, both local
and remote. This program checks for and registers
RT clients that exist in both of these locations:
• RT clients configured in the INtie Configuration
program (INconfCpl.cpl).
• RT clients available to the system.
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