The Windows „RCCM_NC“ Configuration Tool

This article contains the following:

RCCMD IP settings, ports and bindings

Heartbeats / UPSMan alive checking

RCCMD redundancy configuration

RCCMD Shutdown behaviour and logging

The "RCCM_NC"configuration tool, located at the installation path of RCCMD, can be used for a direct configuration of the RCCMD client. This becomes interesting as soon as RCCMD has to be configured without a web browser.

Click on the tool with the right mouse button and select "Run as administrator".

After starting, the following configuration options are available:

Install RCCMD client

This function starts the configuration/installation dialogue.

Uninstall RCCMD

Use this function to uninstall your copy of RCCMD.

Licensekey

Enter / change license key.

Persistant navigation buttons:

	Navigate through all setup screens forward / backwards. You can re-visit any page and take your changes. Following screens and functions will be added / removed in realtime.
	Abort the configuration work: This button will withdraw all configuration changes and abort the tool.
	Appears dynamically – with this button, RCCMD will process your changes, write an active configuration file and then restart RCCMD. Click “Next” until this button is shown.

RCCMD IP settings, ports and bindings

Add / Delete / Edit

• Define which IP address is allowed to send a signal to this RCCMD client at all. As soon as an IP address is entered, jobs coming from any other sender are denied.  Use Add/Edit to add an IP address or edit an existing entry. Delete removes an entry from the list.

• Define whether redundancy behaviour is desired: If at least 2 or more IP addresses are entered, later configuration dialogues provide functions to enable and edit redundancy groups.

   

Configure / Advanced network settings

IP address and port

If wanted, RCCMD is customizable to listen only on a special network card or a different port, enter the IP address or port number the listener should be placed.

SSL

Define whether RCCMD should use SSL encryption for communication, and if so, whether expired certificates should still be accepted.

Message Port

Define the internal port the RCCMD background service shall use to send pop-up messages to the GUI of the operating system.

Jobs as interactive User

Normally, RCCMD is a background service. Accordingly, all scripts start in the background. With this tick, the scripts are executed as foreground processes. Please note, this function is limited to the fact that a user must be logged on.

Run UDP Listener at startup

Broadcast packets are mostly Unified Data Packages (UDP) - A sender does not know whether and how a data packet has reached its destination. Since UDP packets are relatively easy to forge (all that is needed is the valid sender IP), this function is usually disabled for security reasons and must be activated manually by the user.

Heartbeats / UPSMan alive checking

Enable connection check

If desired, RCCMD can regularly poll the registered valid transmitters to check whether the corresponding device is still available. The "polling rate" defines the intervals at which this should be done, and "Connect retries" defines how often this connection test may fail one after the other before RCCMD assumes a problem.

Test connections

As a test, query all entered IP addresses to see whether the corresponding devices can also be reached by RCCMD.

Execute at failure

This script is executed when the number of connection attempts specified under "Connect retries" has been reached. Select your own script with "Browse", or edit the currently selected script directly with Edit file. Default settings deletes all settings and restores the original state of the start configuration.

Use RCCMD Traps

Instead of polling, an RCCMD trap message is sent by the transmitters, which is interpreted as a sign of life.

Audible Settings

If necessary, RCCMD displays an alarm window and indicates this with a yellow warning triangle in the task bar. This function controls the formidable acoustic "BEEP", which can be customized:

turn it off, let it beep endlessly, or just emit a certain number of warning beeps.

RCCMD Redundancy

This function affects the "Next" button. In case of enabling the redundancy function, a continuative configuration screen is automatically available, which can be set on the next page.

RCCMD redundancy configuration

This screen is only available if RCCMD Redundancy in the "UPSMAN alive checking" dialogue is enabled. The reason is that the redundancy functions only work if the alive check is active.

In this dialogue, RCCMD wants to know which IP addresses added at Connections are to be merged into a redundancy group.

Explanation:

At "Connections", you have added some valid RCCMD server, and thus defined which IP address may generally send RCCMD commands to this RCCMD client. From these previously entered IP addresses, you can define, which of these valid RCCMD sending devices must trigger a shutdown at the same time before the shutdown will be executed.

In this example, 3 valid RCCMD transmitters are generally allowed to send a shutdown. At “Redundancy”, however, it was defined that both, 10.10.10.10 and 10.10.10.11 must send an RCCMD shutdown command before this command takes effect. A typical scenario would be that two CS141s are in UPS systems, while a third CS141 monitors the ambient temperatures of the protected servers with a SENSOR MONITOR.

Redundancy Level

The redundancy level determines how many transmitters must send the RCCMD shutdown command:

0 defines the first transmitter that has issued an RCCMD shutdown.

1 each additional number defines another transmitter that must also issue this RCCMD shutdown.

With two units, the maximum redundancy level is "1" because there is only one other unit. With three valid transmitters, the maximum redundancy level would therefore be 2, because one of the units gives the initial command and the other units thus agree.

Execute command when redundancy suppresses a shutdown

This script is executed automatically when the redundancy level has suppressed a shutdown. With edit file you can add any actions to the batch file.

RCCMD Shutdown behaviour and logging

Logfile-Configuration

Define the size of the log file that RCCMD should create. When the file has reached this size, RCCMD will erase the oldest entry in order to add a new entry.

Execute at mail signal from RCCMD server

RCCMD can also run special RCCMD mail relay jobs, e.g. if a CS141 / BACS is to share information via mail from a protected area without direct connection. At Configure, enable the integrated mail client and enter the necessary access data so that RCCMD can send a mail accordingly.

Execute at message signal from RCCMD server

This script takes the CS141 / BACS job "RCCMD Message" and conjures up the message box on the desktop of an operating system. Normally, nothing needs to be changed here Please note that this script is executed for every message, regardless of the content of the RCCMD Message job!

Execute at execute signal from RCCMD server

Similar to 'message signal', except that the RCCMD job "Execute" is used to allow a CS141 starting a script file directly via the RCCMD client, with local admin rights. Again, normally nothing needs to be adjusted, the script runs exactly as it is set Out-Of-The-Box.

Execute at shutdown signal from RCCMD server

Click Configure to customize the shutdown routine to your liking. Each action is generally executed from top to bottom as filed in the list, with the last command being shut down Windows or similar. After this command, no further commands are executed, as the operating system terminates RCCMD accordingly.With the intuitive buttons, add new jobs, change the order of the jobs to be executed or remove them.

With Add custom application, insert own scripts or commands  - they will be  be executed within this shutdown sequence accordingly-

WARNING: 

EDIT FILE ALLOWS TO INDIVIDUALISE THE CHARACTER OF EACH BATCH FILE! AS THE DIRECT MANIPULATION OF THE SCRIPTS MAY DIRECTLY INTERFERE WITH THE FUNCTIONAL PROCESS, THIS IS DONE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Install

Completes the configuration process, writes the final configuration file and restarts RCCMD. You can repeat the configuration process as often as you like, or use the "back" button to scroll through the configuration dialogue. Click install to finish the configuration work.