Command dialog

Use the Command dialog to define a command for the selected device type.

Fields

Device Type

(Read-only) The name of the device type you are working with.

Name

Type the name of the new command (up to 50 characters). This name must be unique.

Display Label

Type the human-readable label (up to 50 characters) for this command, useful because command names defined for a device type are sometimes obscure.

Description

Type the description of the command (up to 255 characters).

Execution Time

Type the number of seconds (up to 4 digits) that the command will take to run. Effectively, this is the command's timeout.


Best Practice for
defining a command's execution time

A command's execution time is the maximum reasonable time duration that the command should run. In general, "go big" with this number. To avoid spurious timeout conditions, use double what you think is the maximum reasonable execution time duration.