I was looking at the different SLNetConfig options and found this one interesting:
PluginsToSkipLoad = SLHealthCheck.dll;SLprotocolManager.dll;SLShortcut.dll;SLHealthCheckTestsInfo.dll;Interop.SLLogLib.dll
What are these ‘plugins’? For example, what’s SLHealthCheck.dll?
SLNet plugins are extension DLLs which get loaded into a separate AppDomain with the SLNet process and get to communicate with the DataMiner software.
These files are within the C:\Skyline Dataminer\files\SLNetPlugins. At DataMiner startup, this folder is probed for DLL files that implement the plugin interface.
PluginsToSkipLoad is a way to prevent certain DLLs from getting loaded.
The default list of filenames in there are files which used to be shipped along with earlier DataMiner versions.
Health check used to be an application which performed health checks on a DataMiner system, much like BPAs.
Not many of these plugins are in use. These days, extension functionality is typically implemented from connectors, scripts or DataMiner Extension modules.
Thanks for the detailed explanation Wouter! Do you know if there are any plans to retire this functionality? I haven’t found systems that have plugins loaded yet.