Vaisala AviMet - Saving Field Device Messages (Logging)

Chapter 6 _______________________________________________________________ IO Terminal
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3. Type the commands directly in the Terminal panel. You can select
the necessary ASCII characters using the buttons at the bottom of the
panel. See Table 43 on page 95.
4. You can change the settings by selecting the options on the right of the
panel. For example, if you want the commands you type to be shown
on the screen, select the Local echo option. The commands might be
shown on the screen twice: once by local echo and once by the echo
of the receiving line. See Table 44 on page 96.
5. When you have finished sending commands, close the field device
command mode by typing the appropriate command.
6. Close the connection to the field device by clicking the Disconnect
button in the Connection control panel.
Saving Field Device Messages (Logging)
For troubleshooting purposes, it is useful to save the field device messages.
When the connection to a port is open, you can save all field device
messages and the sent commands into a log file. To do this, do the
following:
1. Select the Log to file option from the Log menu. The system will start
logging data to the temporary directory (as defined by the user's TMP
environment variable).
2. To include timestamps in log files, select the option If logging use
timestamps from the Log menu.
To disable logging, clear the Log to file selection from the Log menu.
Logging ends automatically when you close IO Terminal.
NOTE
To get more space for the Terminal panel, you can close the Connection
control panel by clicking the minus icon on the upper left corner of the
panel.