Viewing daemon output

The Platform Administration view lets you examine standard output from the host’s platform daemon in real time. This output is different from the output of a running station as seen in the Application Director. Daemon output is available for troubleshooting purposes in both Supervisor and remote controller platforms.

You are working in Workbench and are connected to a remote controller platform.

Expand the Platform node in the Nav tree or double-click Platform.
The contents of the Nav Container view opens in the tree or in the main view.
Double-click Platform Administration.
The Platform Administration view opens.
Click View Daemon Output.
The Output for platform daemon on [IP address] window opens

Depending on the log filter settings set in Platform Administration’s Daemon Output Settings window, the activity level in the output window varies. Output is non-modal, meaning that you can leave this window open and still do other Workbench operations (including change output settings).
As needed, use the scroll bars to navigate through messages, which have headings TRACE, MESSAGE, WARNING, and ERROR. Each message includes a timestamp and a thread ID number.
To copy text of interest to the Windows clipboard, use the Windows copy shortcut (Ctrl + C).
To freeze the output from updating further (no longer in real time), click Pause Output.
When you freeze the output, the button changes to Load Output. This means that daemon messages are still collected. When you click Load Output, the display loads the collected messages and continues again in real time.
To clear all collected messages from the current daemon output window, click Clear Output.
This is not a destructive clear, as another (or new) daemon output window retains the daemon messages.
To configure the information included in the daemon output, click Close and click Change Output Settings.
The Daemon Output Settings window opens.

The Windows reference chapter in this guide documents these properties.