termscu(1) OFFIS DCMTK termscu(1)NAMEtermscu - DICOM termination SCU
SYNOPSIStermscu [options] peer port
DESCRIPTION
The termscu application implements a Service Class User (SCU) for
DCMTK's private Shutdown SOP Class. It tries to negotiate this private
Shutdown SOP Class with a Service Class Provider (SCP) which (if this
feature is implemented) will immediately shutdown after refusing the
association. The application can be used to shutdown some of DCMTK's
server applications.
PARAMETERS
peer hostname of DICOM peer
port tcp/ip port number of peer
OPTIONS
general options
-h--help
print this help text and exit
--version
print version information and exit
--arguments
print expanded command line arguments
-q--quiet
quiet mode, print no warnings and errors
-v--verbose
verbose mode, print processing details
-d--debug
debug mode, print debug information
-ll--log-level [l]evel: string constant
(fatal, error, warn, info, debug, trace)
use level l for the logger
-lc--log-config [f]ilename: string
use config file f for the logger
network options
application entity titles:
-aet--aetitle [a]etitle: string
set my calling AE title (default: ECHOSCU)
-aec--call [a]etitle: string
set called AE title of peer (default: ANY-SCP)
other network options:
-pdu--max-pdu [n]umber of bytes: integer (4096..131072)
set max receive pdu to n bytes (default: 16384)
NOTES
DICOM Conformance
The termscu application supports the following SOP Classes as an SCU:
PrivateShutdownSOPClass 1.2.276.0.7230010.3.4.1915765545.18030.917282194.0
LOGGING
The level of logging output of the various command line tools and
underlying libraries can be specified by the user. By default, only
errors and warnings are written to the standard error stream. Using
option --verbose also informational messages like processing details
are reported. Option --debug can be used to get more details on the
internal activity, e.g. for debugging purposes. Other logging levels
can be selected using option --log-level. In --quiet mode only fatal
errors are reported. In such very severe error events, the application
will usually terminate. For more details on the different logging
levels, see documentation of module 'oflog'.
In case the logging output should be written to file (optionally with
logfile rotation), to syslog (Unix) or the event log (Windows) option
--log-config can be used. This configuration file also allows for
directing only certain messages to a particular output stream and for
filtering certain messages based on the module or application where
they are generated. An example configuration file is provided in
<etcdir>/logger.cfg).
COMMAND LINE
All command line tools use the following notation for parameters:
square brackets enclose optional values (0-1), three trailing dots
indicate that multiple values are allowed (1-n), a combination of both
means 0 to n values.
Command line options are distinguished from parameters by a leading '+'
or '-' sign, respectively. Usually, order and position of command line
options are arbitrary (i.e. they can appear anywhere). However, if
options are mutually exclusive the rightmost appearance is used. This
behaviour conforms to the standard evaluation rules of common Unix
shells.
In addition, one or more command files can be specified using an '@'
sign as a prefix to the filename (e.g. @command.txt). Such a command
argument is replaced by the content of the corresponding text file
(multiple whitespaces are treated as a single separator unless they
appear between two quotation marks) prior to any further evaluation.
Please note that a command file cannot contain another command file.
This simple but effective approach allows to summarize common
combinations of options/parameters and avoids longish and confusing
command lines (an example is provided in file <datadir>/dumppat.txt).
ENVIRONMENT
The termscu utility will attempt to load DICOM data dictionaries
specified in the DCMDICTPATH environment variable. By default, i.e. if
the DCMDICTPATH environment variable is not set, the file
<datadir>/dicom.dic will be loaded unless the dictionary is built into
the application (default for Windows).
The default behaviour should be preferred and the DCMDICTPATH
environment variable only used when alternative data dictionaries are
required. The DCMDICTPATH environment variable has the same format as
the Unix shell PATH variable in that a colon (':') separates entries.
On Windows systems, a semicolon (';') is used as a separator. The data
dictionary code will attempt to load each file specified in the
DCMDICTPATH environment variable. It is an error if no data dictionary
can be loaded.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005-2010 by OFFIS e.V., Escherweg 2, 26121 Oldenburg,
Germany.
Version 3.6.0 6 Jan 2011 termscu(1)
