RCP I/O Summary

Select Options > I/O Summary, the Antenna utility displays a summary of the information gathered by the antenna process.

When the IRIS or Antenna utilities first run after boot-up, an internal antenna process starts in the IRIS host computer. This process monitors I/O to the RCP, runs until it is stopped by a qant command or until the computer shuts down.

Figure 1. RCP I/O Summary
RCP Status
The status of the RCP, either OK or Shutdown.
Update Time
The time in seconds since the last update was received from the RCP by the antenna process.
Input Count
The total number of bytes read by the antenna process since it was started.
Output Count
The total number of bytes written.
Error Count
The total number of bytes received that were discarded because of an error.