# text — SeisComP Release documentation

6.9.0

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Text output plugin for scm.

## Description

The text plugin writes for each client a status text file to a `configurable` directory. Each text file is named after the client with the extension “.txt”.

## Plugin

The text plugin is installed under `share/plugins/monitor/mtextplugin.so`.

To add the plugin to scm, add it to the plugin list:

    plugins = ${plugins}, mtextplugin

## Module Configuration

mtextplugin.outputDir

  Default: `@LOGDIR@/scm/`

  Type: string

  Output directory where [client].txt is written to. Additionally an file description.txt will be created to show the order of tags used in the client status file.