A Talon XVM has the ability to discover annotated 'Command' methods provided by an application. This release provides the ability to for administrative tools such as Robin to discover these commands by requesting and retrieving a command list for an application via Talon's Command And Control Model

The above command could then be discovered and its usage printed via API:

or via the the robin command line tool:

Compatibility Notes:

Note listing commands requires Robin to be talking to a Talon XVM of version 3.4 or newer

This feature allows listing and invoking annotated commands exposed via an application through annotations from the Robin command line tool rbntool.

Given a application method annotated as:

rbntool can list list the command usage via the 'listAppCommands' command:

This release adds support for recording the following stats via the influx db stats appender:

• numAcksSet
• numMsgFiltered
• msgFilterLatencies
• numMsgsSourced

From server heartbeats

Prior to this release, Robin only provisioned nvx-core distributions. This release adds support for Robin to recognized and provision nvx-talon distributions

This release changes the rbnrool, rbn and rbmcommand scripts to allow launching them from a directory other than ROBIN_HOME.

Robin uses the robin.conf file to source its configuration properties. However, this is only when Robin scripts are used. It is often confusing to users that the robin.conf is not a special file but rather just a a Talon application.conf file with a different name. Using application.conf under the $ROBIN_HOME/conf directory instead of robin.conf provides that clarity and allows users to work with Robin as a regular X application which allows for configuration to be provided in the conf/application.conf file. This release implements this change