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Chapter 5: Serial Console Viewer 59
2. Click Create . The Create Macro/Edit Macro dialog box appears.
3. In the Macro Groups panel, select the macro group name in the Group Name column. To select
multiple macro group names, press the
Shift
key while clicking.
4. Click the Delete button. You are prompted to confirm the deletion.
5. Click Yes to confirm or No to cancel the deletion. You are returned to the Macros dialog box.
6. Click Close .
To specify the macro group to appear in the Macros menu:
1. Select Options - Session Properties from the Serial Console Viewer menu.
-or-
Click the
Session Settings icon in the toolbar.
2. Click the Terminal tab.
3. Select a macro group name from the Macro Groups pull-down menu.
-or-
Select
All, which will make all macros in all groups available for use.
Macros in the selected group will appear in the Macros menu.
Keep in mind that if a macro’s definition has the Include in Macro Menu checkbox disabled, that
macro will not appear in the menu, even if belongs to an enabled group; however, if the macro’s
definition includes a hotkey, it may be used to run the macro.
Using Logging
The Serial Console Viewer has a logging function that saves the contents of a session to a file. You
may enable automatic logging or dynamically start logging at any time. Additionally, you may
pause, resume and stop logging, regardless of whether it was started automatically or dynamically.
While logging is occurring or when it is paused, the status bar at the bottom of the Serial Console
Viewer window contains a logging status label.
NOTE: When you enable/disable automatic logging, the logging will begin or end at the start of the next Serial
Console Viewer session to that unit. If you change the default log file directory used for automatic logging, the
change does not take effect until the next session to that unit.
The format of log file names is shown below, where <mmddyy> represents the month, day and
year, and <hhmmss> represents the current hour, minute and second in military time.
scvTelnet<mmddyy>_<hhmmss>.log
The default log directory is session-specific. Each Serial Console Viewer session may have its own
location for storing log files. You may change the name of the file and the location of the directory
that stores the log files. By default, logs are created in the logs directory under your home directory.
You may view a log file at any time, using a standard text editor. The screen buffer is written to the
log file when the buffer is full, or when logging is paused or stopped. To ensure the log file is up-to-
date, either pause or stop the logging.