Windows Conductor command-line options

When you use the NCOConductor.exe command to start the Conductor on Windows, you can specify a number of command-line options to modify the configuration of all the event lists that are started from that Conductor instance. You can run this command from the %NCHOME%\omnibus\desktop directory.

The following table describes the command-line options for starting the Windows Conductor.

Table 1. Windows Conductor (NCOConductor) command-line options
Command-line option Description
-config string | URL

or

-elc string | URL

 Specifies the initial configuration file to use for all the event list instances that are invoked from the Conductor menu for that instance of the Conductor, where:

string specifies a path to a .elc file.

URL specifies a .elc file that is located on a remote server, which is accessible by using HTTP or FTP. Specify the URL by using one of the following formats:

  • http://servername[:port]/path/filename.elc
  • http://username:password@servername[:port]/path/filename.elc
  • ftp://servername[:port]/path/filename.elc
  • ftp://username:password@servername[:port]/path/filename.elc

The optional port number :port needs to be specified only if the server is not using the default port.

You can optionally specify an IPv4 or IPv6 address for the servername value. When specifying an IPv6 address, enclose the address within brackets []; for example:

http://[2003:13f8:206:190:204:baef:fe6a:6af0]:2880/mydir/myfile.elc

If using FTP, the path must be the full path from the root directory; for example, /home/user/mydir/myconfig.elc.
-help Displays help for this command and exits.
-networktimeout integer Specifies a time, in seconds, after which a login attempt or connection to the ObjectServer will time out if a network failure occurs. After the specified timeout period, the event list started from the Conductor attempts to reconnect to the ObjectServer. If the connection is unsuccessful after a second timeout period, the event list started from the Conductor will attempt to connect to a backup ObjectServer, where available. The default is 20 seconds.
-password string Specifies a password to use to log in to the Conductor and event lists.
-server string Specifies the name of the ObjectServer to which you are connecting.
-username string Specifies the user name to use to log in to the Conductor and event lists.
-version Displays version information and exits.