Logtool Specifications

Hewlett-Packard STM: Logtool ERS * Revision 1.17
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4.2.2. Raw Log
This command displays the contents of all the raw log files selected with the
Select Raw command under the File menu If no files were selected, the current
raw log file, if there is one, is used as the default. Each entry consists of a header
and data. The header content is architected for all entries. The format of the data
portion is not architected and is under complete control of the logging entity
(e.g. I/O drivers). The header portion of the entry is interpreted and displayed in
text. The data portion of the entry is not interpreted and is displayed in hex.
The entries in the raw log file are first filtered according to the Raw filter under
the Filters --> Display menu. Entries which do not match the filter will not be
displayed. If no filters were selected, all entries are displayed. The entries are
processed on a per-file basis, concatenated in a continuous flow and treated as
one file when displayed. If the user wishes to display entries which were
previously filtered out, the filter should be changed and the log redisplayed.
The following figure shows the screen that is displayed in the GUI when the
Raw Log command is selected. In this example, only the first entry is shown. To
see the remaining entries, the user can use the scroll bar on the right of the
screen to scroll through the text, perform a case-sensitive search (Search and
FindNext), move from log entry to log entry (Prev and Next), print the
information to a printer (Print), save the information to a file (SaveAs), close the
window (Done) or ask for help (Help). Note also in this example that the
Display Filter information shows the starting and ending dates which were in
force when the file was filtered. These dates will match the date/time of the first
and last entry and will only change if the user selects date criteria on the filter
display screens. Any other filters that were specified will also be displayed here.
In this example no filter criteria was specified.