/etc/markets The name of the configuration file name is ticker-plant.cfg. An example of it contents is shown above.
Executing the server from the command line with the "--help" displays a subset of parameters found in the ticker-plant.cfg file. All parameters found in the ticker-plant.cfg are available on the command line. "--help" display the options that should only be use from the command line; it is only a recommendation.
An example of the content of a ticker-plant.cfg file. Any characters between a # and end of line end is a comment and not processed by the Market Data Ticker Plant Server.
#reporting and message levels. verbose = true
#send message to system logger #logger = true
#Trace data transfer and program execution. #trace = true
#native exchange formatted data broadcast. See documentation #market-format = true
#send time as hour, minutes and seconds since midnight. Default is to send time in seconds #time = true
#send the date a C tm structure, where only the tm_mday, t_mon and tm_year are valid. Default is to send the time in seconds (see documentation) #date = true
#send the date a C tm structure. Default is to send the time in seconds (see documentation) #date-time = true
#Default D80x0 IP Address receiver-inet = 10.100.116.110
#Default Client UDP Number client-inet = 10.100.116.140
#D80x0 TCP Port Number tcp-port = 21560
#D80x0 TCP Port Number udp-port = 20547
#Ticker Plant UDP broadcast Port. eg 20603 as in 192.168.1.255:20603 #port on which the ticker plant will broadcast UDP data. broadcast-port = 192.168.1.255:20603
#Ticker Plant TCP control/command Port. eg 20602 as in 192.168.1.90:20602 #port on which clients will send commands to the ticker plant server-ctrl-port = 192.168.1.90:20602
#destination of \"PassThru\" files" passthru-path = /mnt/sdc/news
#destination where to stored all tics #Setting this cause the server to store all tics in its most fundamental form. #The archived data can then be played back by the playback server. archive-path = /mnt/sdc/market-data/tics
#totally number of clients that can connect and query the server. client-tcp-connection = 10