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Storage Utility Plugins
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This module contains information about the various |RECS| Storage 
Plugins that are shipped in a separate library called ``rtistorageutils``. This 
library is meant to be an extension of the capabilities supported by 
*RTI Recording Service* out-of-the-box. It is located under ``<NDDSHOME>/lib`` 
like other |RTI_CONNEXT_TM| libraries.

In this release, there is one plugin for CSV format. Other plugins may be added 
in future releases.

.. note::
    The different executables shipped with |RECS| will perform 
    run-time loading for ``rtistorageutils`` if you use one of these Storage 
    Utility Plugins in your XML configuration. Thus make sure that 
    ``<NDDSHOME>/lib/<architecture>`` is included in your system's library search 
    path. See :numref:`section-storageutils-tutorials-csv-setup`.


.. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 2

    storageutils_plugins
    storageutils_tutorials