The interface-specific configuration files for the ROBAR-SV instances contain configuration parameters which are important for the individual execution of a ROBAR-SV instance. They contain not only general data, but also the MTC devices to be managed by the ROBAR-SV instance, the BS2000 systems and their TSN names, and the storage location name of the archive.
Sample configuration files (editable text files) belong to the ROBAR-SV delivery package. They are contained in the interface-specific directories /etc/robar/<interface>.conf.d/templates and have the file name template.txt (with English and German comments).
After ROBAR-SV has been installed, create a separate interface-specific configuration file for each required ROBAR-SV instance (see "Creating a new configuration file for a ROBAR-SV instance").
When the ROBAR-SV instance starts, the interface-specific configuration file is interpreted, checked for semantic consistency, and automatically converted to a binary format. When the ROBAR-SV instance is started via the ROBAR-SV Manager, warning messages and errors are displayed in a dialog. They are displayed in the footer of the menu window when the ROBAR-SV instance is started in the robar menu program. They are output to STDERR when the ROBAR-SV instance is started from the console.
ROBAR-SV instances can also be predefined in the global configuration file of ROBAR-SV. They are then started automatically, see section "ABBA , SCSI configuration parameter" in chapter "Global configuration file for ROBAR-SV".