Auto - GeneralElectric/TrueConnect-Link GitHub Wiki

The recommend way to set up TrueConnect-Link is to have it triggered by a schedule task which periodically execute TrueConnect-Link unless it's already executing. This way TrueConnect-Link not only restarts after the host reboots but also can recover from an error that causes it to terminate. This can be achieved as either:

• Windows Scheduled Task
• Linux Cron Job

You might wonder what the effective difference is between running TrueConnect-Link Auto command rather then the Start Command. The answers is very little except that:

1. Auto uses the individual polling interval on each of the targets to determine how often the locations are checked for data files. Where as Start will find the files it can and upload them once, and not check again until it has finished execution and is called again. The disadvantage of using Start is that if you have multiple targets these can't recheck any of them before you have completed uploading them all.
2. Auto automatically retries failed uploads after a short time, where as Start will only retry the next time its executed.

So in summery Auto is better suited for running in a continuous manner, rather than Start which is more suited to a periodic manual batch style operation.