Daemon Output Settings window

This window adjusts (tunes) the amount and content (output) provided by the Application Director’s output and platform daemon output.

Logs

Figure 1. Daemon Output Settings window for the controller


To access this window, expand Platform, double-click Platform Administration and click Change output Settings.

By default, all daemon processes have a message log filter level. The logs include the following:

  • niagarad logs information for the platform daemon (niagarad) process, with high level entries like niagarad starting, baja home = ..., niagarad stopping.

  • appOut logs information for the thread that manages the buffers associated with station output, making that output visible in the Application Director view. Entries may reflect buffer size changes (available in the Application Director interface), or if a problem occurs streaming the output to Workbench.

  • file logs requests made to the platform daemon’s file servlet. Platform views , such as the File Transfer Client, Commissioning Wizard, Software Manager, and Station Copier generate these requests. Many different things can print on this log, such as request for file xxx, and wrote file xxx. where xxx is a file name.

  • qnxosupdate logs information for the OS upgrade servlet created by the platform daemon. Workbench uses this servlet to upgrade the QNX OS in the host controller when using the Commissioning Wizard or Distribution File Installer. Output can reflect a problem when updating the QNX OS, such as os crc isn’t right, and waitpid when launching osupdate command failed.

  • reboot logs information for the reboot servlet, which is one of the servlets the platform daemon manages.

  • stationregistry logs information for platform daemon management of stations, including startup, shutdown, and watchdog actions.

  • updatedaemon logs information for handling Workbench requests for current platform daemon configuration. This process is used mainly by the Platform Administration view.

  • webserver logs information for the HTTP server that manages incoming platform client connections. Entries are often generic, before the daemon hands off to the appropriate platform servlet.

Filter Setting

For any process, use the Filter Setting drop-down list to select one of the following:

  • FINE returns all message activity (verbose). This includes all transactional messages, which may result in too many messages to be useful. Levels, such as ALL, FINER, FINEST are equivalent to the FINE level in the station log output.

  • CONFIG returns configuration information.

  • INFO returns informational MESSAGEs, plus all ERROR and WARNING types.

  • WARNING returns only ERROR and WARNING type messages (no informational MESSAGEs).

  • SEVERE returns only ERROR type messages (no WARNING or informational MESSAGEs).

  • OFF displays an off message.