Settings - Interval Log & SysLog - Interval Log

Enable interval log

Check this box to make MBM 5 write the interval log each at the selected interval (4 options below). How this log is written is determined by the next 3 options

.TXT

Will write the log to a .TXT file, the buttons behind it will open the log or delete it.

.CSV

Will write the log to a .CSV file, the buttons behind it will open the log or delete it

.HTML

Will write the log to a .HTML file, the buttons behind it will open the log or delete it

.XML

Will write the log to a .XML file, the buttons behind it will open the log or delete it.

There are some rules and changes needed in the sensor names if you want to use this option correctly:

- symbols will be replaced with minus_
+ symbols will be removed
<spaces> will be replaced with _
, will be replaced with .

Please make sure not the use any characters in the sensor names that are not allowed in attribute names

Interval log interval time

The interval time to write the log

Location for the interval log files

Here you can select a location for the log files to be written to

Interval Log Name

Here you can set the filename for the log files that hold the Interval messages, MBM will add the extension needed

Maximum Interval entries in the log (once this value is reached, the program will delete the oldest entry to add a new one)

Here you state the max number of entries you want to have in the log file, the higher the number the more work MBM will have, but below 100 you should be okay. If the max number is reached then the oldest entry will be removed so a new one can be added. In XML logs this changes a little bit, instead of entries limited to X it's the date's that are limited to X, so you can have as many entries as you want per date but it will only allow as many dates in it as you specify here.

Include value symbols in the interval log

If you uncheck this button then only the values, not the symbols, will be written in the log file.

XSL entry in XML files (leave blank to have no entry)

Here you have the option to add a XSL entry into the XML file.

XSL is a way of transforming XML into something else, like HTML. You can write an XSL file (which is in XML), and basically pick data parts from the original XML file and place them where-ever you want to in an HTML file. To use XSL you need an XSL processor, luckily IE5+ and Netscape 6+ have them built in.

a valid entry would be: <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="myselectfile.xsl"?>

To learn about XSL and XML check out: Introduction to XSLT - Web Building - CNET.com

CSS entry in HTML files (leave blank to have no entry)

Here you have the option to add a CSS entry into the HTML file.

CSS is the same XSL (above) but less powerfull, and for HTML files only

a valid entry would be: <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="myselectedstylesheet.css">