System Console Panel

This is an informational/diagnostic panel that displays operational statistics on a number of the key subsystems and device drivers within the system.  For example, it can show the current CPU / amplifier temperatures, memory / flash utilization, or Ethernet transactions. This is a simple means of executing commonly used Console commands.

System Console Panel Overview

1. Show Console Commands

Pressing a button in the left panel issues a predefined "Show" Console command to the controller. Please see the Controller Software > Software Reference > Console Commands section for more information about information that can be returned by specific commands   For example,

Amp Temp:   issues "show temperature" to display the current temperatures of the power amplifier devices.
GSB Show :  issues "show gsb" to display statistical information concerning message transmissions to single axis serial slave motion servos.  This is useful for determining if any transmission errors are occurring.
Network:  issues "show net -tcp" to display statistical information on Ethernet message transmissions.
Startup Log:  issues "show startup" to display the messages that were generated when the controller was first booted.  This is useful for determining if any unusual startup problems were detected.

2. Results Display

The information returned by the last button press is displayed in this window.

3. Manual Console Command entry

If you wish to execute an arbitrary Console Command, the full command string should be entered into the Cmd box and "Set" pressed to invoke the command.