Cisco Headend System Release 2.7 User Guide
Chapter 18 Send Entitlement Permissions with the sendPTEA Utility
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Overview of the sendPTEA Utility
The sendPTEA utility accepts, as its only input, a formatted text file, and then
transmits a pass-through, broadcast message to DHCTs by means of the
PassThruManager process of the DNCS. The message sent by the sendPTEA utility
sets entitlement permissions (permission to run a specific application) for DHCTs.
There is no naming convention for the text file; the utility processes only the contents
of the file.
transmits a pass-through, broadcast message to DHCTs by means of the
PassThruManager process of the DNCS. The message sent by the sendPTEA utility
sets entitlement permissions (permission to run a specific application) for DHCTs.
There is no naming convention for the text file; the utility processes only the contents
of the file.
Example of the Text File Used by the sendPTEA Utility
The following example is from the readme file that accompanies the sendPTEA
utility. This example illustrates how a file to be used with the sendPTEA utility
should look.
utility. This example illustrates how a file to be used with the sendPTEA utility
should look.
# This example file defines a PTEA message for use with sendPTEA.
!VERSION|3| #Version must be incremented each time this file is changed.
!Global #The First group is always the global group.
DISABLED|C2K|0|
DISABLED|TELN|0| #ENABLED or DISABLED|8 char name|Duration in
minutes|
minutes|
DISABLED|KGDB|0|
DISABLED|GDB|0|
!Group1 #'!' specifies a new group. The name is not read in.
MAC|00:11:22:33:44:55|
MAC|00:18:68:BF:AF:62| #MAC| Network address of a settop|
ENABLED|C2K|1|
ENABLED|TELN|1|