{"id":9981,"date":"2020-07-31T13:41:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cyflexdoc.wpengine.com\/?page_id=9981"},"modified":"2025-11-07T12:17:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:17:58","slug":"ecat_mon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/usage-help-manual\/14-i-o-systems\/ecat_mon\/","title":{"rendered":"ecat_mon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3>Purpose:<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p>Monitor EtherCAT channels and update CyFlex variables based on events, including timer events.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Enter:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p><strong>ecat_mon<\/strong> [priority] [filename] [+c]<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Where:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<table style=\"width: 83.71%;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<colgroup>\n<col \/>\n<col \/><\/colgroup>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 16.07%;\">\n<p>priority<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 193.21%;\">\n<p>Optional. Specify the priority level of this task. The default is 20.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 16.07%;\">\n<p>filename<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 193.21%;\">\n<p>Optional. Specify the specification filename (\/specs\/default path).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 16.07%;\">\n<p>+c<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 193.21%;\">\n<p>Optional. Specify this option to run as a critical task.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Example:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p><strong>ecat_mon<\/strong> 11\u00a0\/specs\/ecat_mon.101 &amp;<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<h3>Notes:<\/h3>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This task must be started after the scheduler task.<\/p>\n<h3>See Also:<\/h3>\n<dl>\n<dd>\n<p><span style=\"text-align: left; color: #333333; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; cursor: text; orphans: 2; background-color: transparent; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/EtherCAT-Setup.pdf\">CyFlex EtherCat Setup<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose: Monitor EtherCAT channels and update CyFlex variables based on events, including timer events. Enter: ecat_mon [priority] [filename] [+c] Where: priority Optional. Specify the priority level of this task. The default is 20. filename Optional. Specify the specification filename (\/specs\/default path). +c Optional. Specify this option to run as a critical task. Example: ecat_mon 11\u00a0\/specs\/ecat_mon.101 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"parent":1964,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9981","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9981\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyflex.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}