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The rows function as follows:
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Panel Communication: Records logic and data involved in communicating with the ACU
panels. This includes such items as regular ‘polls’ sent to the panels, alarms and events
recorded at the panels (readers and various sensors) and reported back to the host, and the
data download that occurs when the panel first connects to the host.
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Color Graphics: Records logic and data associated with the photo badging and map
functions, for example, the search and selection of a camera to be used for photo badging.
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Graphical Interface: Records logic and data associated with the communication with the
operator, for example, input received in response to the operator pressing a ‘save’ key, and
the output data sent to the browser window.
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Data I/O: Records activity associated with the Topaz database, for example, write failures
encounter when a database table is full.
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Memory: Records memory usage and management operations, which can be used to track
memory ‘leaks,’ for example.
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Video: Records logic and activity associated with DVR video integrations, for example,
recording messages exchanged while determining if a DVR is currently online.
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System Operations: records activity not associated with other categories, for example, alarm
or time-zone initiated actions.
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Auto configuration: Records logic and activity associated with the automatic hardware
configuration function.
Enabling any of these options causes diagnostic information to be written to a file on the user’s
system (in the Topaz Server's installation folder) and optionally broadcast in real-time to a Diagnostic
Viewer application. The files are named Diagnostic_log_xx.txt, where ‘xx’ is the hour (0-23) of the
day the data was produced. The files are broken by time to simplify disk management (the files can
grow very large).
Allow Live Broadcast needs to be checked to enable the diagnostic viewer application to receive
real-time broadcasts of diagnostic information. This is a security feature that allows the customer to
block outside parties from observing Topaz operation. The Start Viewer button opens the Diagnostic
Viewer application in a stand-alone window. This application has the ability to view real-time or
archived diagnostic information.
Once your selections have been made, click Save/Add. Clicking the Clear button clears all check
boxes.