36 TELEMATICS: TELEMATIC SETTINGS
CONFIGURING SETTINGS FOR THE BENEFON TRACK PRO
O P E N I N G A N D P R O C E S S I N G R E M O T E L Y S E N T
L O G F I L E ( I N T H E B E N E F O N C O N F I G U R A T O R )
Start the Benefon Configurator and open the trace log
file as follows:
1. Highlight the
Trace log
icon shown on the left side
of the screen, under
My Computer
node.
2. Choose
Open
from the
File
menu (or, click the
mouse´s
right
button and highlight
Open
).
3. Click the
Files of type
setting and highlight
All Bene-
fon Configurator files
.
4. Browse the directories and files until the destina-
tion directory and file is found. The file identifier is
.bin
. Click
Open
.
Trace log file is originally in binary-coded format. As
the file is opened in Benefon Configurator, the soft-
ware generates the file and displays it as a table in a
readable text format.
If you want open and process these
.bin
files in some
customized application other than Benefon Configura-
tor, please ask directions from the Benefon Partner.
S a v i n g t h e l o g f i l e
To save the trace log in Benefon Configurator, choose
Save
or
Save as..
from the
File
menu. The trace log file
will be saved in readable text format (.log).
D e l e t i n g t h e l o g f i l e
To delete the trace log in Benefon Configurator,
choose
Delete trace log
from
Mobile
menu.
NOTE: If you delete trace log from
My Benefon
node,
the log is lost once and for all. So, make sure the log
is stored in some place else in case you need to recall
the log information afterwards.
P R O C E S S I N G T R A C E L O G B Y U S I N G S O M E
O T H E R A P P L I C A T I O N
Trace log files cannot be edited in Benefon Configura-
tor. In order to modify or print the log file, do as fol-
lows:
1. First save the log in Benefon Configurator. The log
file identifier will become
.log
.
2. Open Windows Excel or Notepad. Make sure, the
Files of type shows
All files
.
3. Open the log file in the chosen application.