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In PFS a summoner can use his summon monster SLA as a standard action. THe Archives of Nethys says that it is a standard
Summon Devil (Sp): Once per day, as a standard action, a Hellknight can summon a single devil similarly to the spell summon monster. The devils a Hellknight can summon (and the Hellknight level at which he can summon them) are lemure (5th), imp (7th), bearded devil (9th), erinyes (11th), bone devil (13th), barbed devil (15th), ice devil (17th). (Order of the Gate)
However many of the abilities on that site for hellknight are not as they appear in PFS (they can summon bearded at 3rd, erinyes at 6th and bone devil at 9th in PFS.)
The rules for SLAs are:
Usually, a spell-like ability works just like the spell of that name. A spell-like ability has no verbal, somatic, or material component, nor does it require a focus. The user activates it mentally. Armor never affects a spell-like ability's use, even if the ability resembles an arcane spell with a somatic component.
A spell-like ability has a casting time of 1 standard action unless noted otherwise in the ability or spell description. In all other ways, a spell-like ability functions just like a spell.
So I can't tell. The spell does otherwise say that it's a full round but from what I can tell summon monster as an SlA is usually a standard, so is the Hellknight's summon a full round? And if it is a full round do I have to make a concentration check to continue casting if say I take damage, or the weather gets violent?

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Summon Monster as an SLA is usually a full round, actually. Summoner's are an exception to that because it says theirs is a Standard.
The actual text of the Hellknight ability is the following:
Summon Devil (Sp; Order of the Gate): The Hellknight may use summon monster V as a spell-like ability to summon 1 bearded devil. At 6th level, this spell-like ability is replaced by summon monster VI, allowing him to summon 1d3 bearded devils, or 1 erinyes. And at 9th level, this spell-like ability is replaced by summon monster VII, allowing him to summon 1d4+1 bearded devils, 1d3 erinyes, or 1 bone devil.
It doesn't say it's a Standard, so it's a 1 Round cast. You would need to make concentration checks if you take damage during the casting.