RE: Configuration process

[Tony T]

> There is nothing in the spec that prevents you setting up a
> program that would give out the timestamp instances you
> suggest automatically (xplhal could easily do this, for
> instance) as long as the yymmddhhmmss (or
> whatever) for the instance didn't exceed the allowed number
> of characters. You could then give them a more meaningful
> name (if you liked, and would be
> preferable) later on by sending a replacement config.
>

In fact you can do this with one line of vb script in an xplhal config sub

Sub KAT5_SWITCH_DEFAULT_Config()

Call
xpl.sendmsg("XPL-CMND","TARGET=KAT5-SWITCH.DEFAULT","CONFIG.RESPONSE","NEWCO
NF=" & format(now,"yyyymmddhhmmss"))

End Sub

This would execute each time a config.basic schema xpl-stat message was
received for (in this example) KAT5-SWITCH.DEFAULT
As the device/app would change it's heartbeat from config.basic to
hbeat.basic, it wouldn't get another value assigned once the first
assignment was made.

Then you can go back later and assign meaningful names.

Regards
Tony