The Application Log

While running, SDC writes any important information to a log. This log can only be accessed via the telnet console as it is a memory log, not a file based log. As a consequence of this, you need to have enabled WIFI and followed the instructions to install telnet first.

You need to be careful using any of the commands shown, as some of them are destructive. For example, if you delete a file then there is no recycle bin like there is on any other operating system so once you delete it, that’s it, it has gone!

Once you have an SDC telnet session open, then to see the contents of the log type the following (press enter after the command):

mon 1

The number after the command is a number of seconds to wait. During this wait period if any new log entries are shown they will be displayed immediately. So if you want to see what happens in the next 10 seconds, type:

mon 10

If you type:

mon

i.e. without a parameter, the console will wait forever. You have no way of breaking out of this other than to close the connection. But it is OK to have more than one connection open at the same time if you want to issue other commands while one window is looking at the log. Don’t run two mon commands at the same time though because the log messages will be split between them and you won’t be able to discern the ordering.