Thinklogical HDX80 Manual - Manual (Page 68)

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Figure 44: View of Log File
CONFIGURATION FILE STRUCTURE
The configuration files (stations, groups, router, macros) all share a similar structure. The are
encoded in the .csv (comma separated values) format to allow easy access from spreadsheet
programs, text editors, and the web-server program itself.
Configuration Files, In General
There are four kinds of rows: blank, comments, headers, and values.
If a row is blank, it is ignored. This allows the creation of white space between blocks of data.
If the first character in the first field of a row is ‘#’, then the contents of the entire row will be
ignored . This gives the administrator the ability to enter and save comments.
If the first field in a row ends with ‘:’ (colon), then the program interprets the entire row as a
series of “headers”. A header describes the meaning and usage of all the fields below the
header in that column, until a new series of headers replaces the current ones and supplies new
meanings for the values below it.
There are three ways of interpreting the values found in the fields below a header:
- The first is “global”. This value is assigned to the name defined in the header above it and it