Introduction

The introduction to Diagnostics article is the place to look for general information about the files described here for Cumulus 1.

This article is only for Cumulus 1 users, please see MXDiags for equivalent file if you use Cumulus MX.

Cumulus 1 creates diagnostic logs in its diags folder; diags is a subfolder of the folder where the Cumulus executable is stored. It contains 10 files named cumulus.~og and cumulus.001 to cumulus.009. These represent logs for previous 9 Cumulus restarts and the current log reporting what has happened since the last time Cumulus was started. These files log many of the actions performed by Cumulus 1. They will show the Cumulus specific files that have been accessed, values found or calculated from log files, before and after values for updates to highs and lows for monthly and annual extreme records, rejected spikes, and much more.

Solving Cumulus 1 Errors

The diagnostic files also log error messages, often with extra information compared to the error window (accessed by clicking error light/indicator), and may help you if you have a problem.

When you ask for support via the forum, you often need to upload (as a zip) one or all of the diagnostic files in the Diags folder especially for problems that occur when you start or restart Cumulus. Include all files in the folder, unless you definitely know that a single diags file contains all the information for when Cumulus 1 is running normally as well as when it encountered the problem and failed. Add debug.log from the folder above in the zip.

In Windows Explorer, open the Cumulus installation folder (default is C:\Cumulus). Right-click on the 'Diags' folder, and from the pop-up menu, select 'Send to -> Compressed (zipped) Folder' (available in most Windows versions). This will create a file called Diags.zip. Post your message in the forum, and attach the file using the 'Attachment' section below the area where you have typed your message (browse for the file, then click 'Add the file').

Details

File Location, Name and Format

In Cumulus 1, the file is called Debug.log, and is located in the root of the Cumulus folder. Entries are identified by date as fraction, and time e.g. 9173.516 : 14:23:59.

The log file is a simple text file containing the time and a description of each event.

The file can be deleted at any time as Cumulus does not read from it.

Sample File for Cumulus 1

An extract from a debug.log file

9168.735 : 14:23:54 Realtime FTP Put attempt
9168.766 : 14:23:54 Realtime FTP local file: C:\Program Files\Cumulus\realtime.txt
9168.766 : 14:23:54 Realtime FTP remote file: /var/www/html/data/realtime.txt
9173.500 : 14:23:59 USB device is plugged in
9173.500 : 14:23:59 request EW data block, written = 9, addr = 000000 
9173.516 : 14:23:59 EW data line 01  55 AA FF FF FF FF FF FF 
9173.516 : 14:23:59 EW data line 02  FF FF FF FF FF FF FF FF 
9173.531 : 14:23:59 EW data line 03  0A 20 08 25 11 00 00 00 
9173.531 : 14:23:59 EW data line 04  81 00 00 F0 0F 00 10 DD 
9173.531 : 14:23:59 USB device is plugged in
9173.547 : 14:23:59 request EW data block, written = 9, addr = 00DD10 
9173.563 : 14:23:59 EW data line 05  00 3A BF 00 47 97 00 FD 
9173.578 : 14:23:59 EW data line 06  25 00 03 00 0B 0C 08 00 
9173.578 : 14:23:59 Data: 00 3A BF 00 47 97 00 FD 25 00 03 00 0B 0C 08 00 
9173.578 : 14:23:59 EW data line 07  0A 2D D5 00 55 57 00 16 
9173.594 : 14:23:59 EW data line 08  26 00 00 00 06 65 07 00 
9175.328 : 27/08/2009 14:24:00 Minute timer 24
9175.328 : Adding LH entry, ts = 14:24:00 raintot = 618
9175.328 : TD = 0.0833333358168602 Lastval = 618 Firstval = 618 rate = 0