Scan Automon Command

Brief Description

The command will estimate the number of monitor counts needed to make the scan run for a given amount of time. This function uses SCAN HOWLONG and scales the monitor counts according to the desired running time.

The Rate command should be run before Scan Automon. If it has not been run when Scan Howlong is run, it will be run automatically before a result is given, unless a scan is in progress, in which case the command will fail.

Full Command Path

  • Scan AUTOMON [duration] [scan_name]

  • Scan AUTOMON [duration] –i [scan_index]

Positional Arguments

  • [duration] is a whole number of hours

  • [scan_name] is a name in the scan list

  • [scan_index] is an integer representing the position in the scan list

Keyword Arguments

[-s] will cause the result to be basaed on a time in seconds.

Keyword Arguments

[-o] [overhead] will set a default overhead to add to the time for each point. The overhead is in seconds. If there is a device with a higher overhead than the specified overhead, then that device's overhead will be added instead.