S&C Instruction Sheet 1043-550
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CF logs cannot be viewed through the IntelliLINK screens. To view a compact flash log,
the following steps need to be followed:
1. After making sure that Compact Flash logging is disabled, remove the card
from the device.
2. Insert the CF card into a compact flash reader, connected to your PC. You
should see LOGXX.VM files in the card’s root directory.
3. Run
IntelliLINK.
4. Use the File > Open Snapshot IntelliLINK menu to select the compact flash log-
ging file that interests you. The “Last Modified” timestamp in the IntelliLINK
Open Snapshot File dialog is that of the latest event in the file. Screens will not
contain any meaningful data, because the snapshot solely has the CF log in it.
5. Use Data > Event/Data logs menu of IntelliLINK to open the “Select Log” Dia-
log. Expand the item in the dialog and choose the “CF Event Log (SNAPSHOT
ONLY!)”
option.
6. Click OK and ignore any warnings by clicking OK in the dialogs that appear.
You check the “Save To File” checkbox if you want to generate an HTML file on
your
disk.
7. The log containing all events, in the CF file you opened as a snapshot, will be
displayed in an Internet Explorer window, unless the “Save To File” check box
was
selected.
The columns in the HTML log table are identical to the columns on the Historic Event
View screens, with the exception of the Log Level column, which has been added to make
filtering/sorting more powerful. The HTML file can be opened with Microsoft Excel, or
copied and pasted into Excel, where it can be rearranged in any way that the spreadsheets
allow.
Additional information is included with the HTML file: the application version, and the
local RTU address and location information from the device that generated the CF file.
NOTE: Do not manually modify any Compact Flash files generated by the UIM
application.
Reinserting a compact flash card with modified files into the UIM may cause
parts of the logged data to become unreadable. The only safe modification of UIM-generated
CF files, that can be performed on a PC, is the deletion of ALL the files, or reformatting
the card for FAT file system.
Viewing Compact Flash
Data
Data Logging
