Introduction
The Generic SCADA Adapter (executable name: RTAdapter) is an Oracle Utilities Network Management System interfacing adapter that can be used to interface to external SCADA systems. Generally one RTAdapter process is configured to communicate with each external SCADA system. Each external SCADA system must write some form of "scan file" to a defined (dedicated) directory (or RDBMS table) that RTAdapter can access in read/write mode. The "scan files" are read out of the named directory (or RDBMS table) by RTAdapter on a first-in-first-out basis (to support queuing of updates). The form of the scan files can be configured for each SCADA interface.