Explanation

• This sub-category provides links to pages that give explanations for all of the Log files within Cumulus.
• Descriptions, and tips, can also be found in the Help file within the Cumulus 1 software.

Correcting Log files

Calculate Missing Values and Correcting Extremes are the pages to look at. Be aware that from release 3.7.0 of MX, internal code changes have made MX less tolerant of log files that are not perfectly formatted; therefore it is harder to move log files between the Cumulus flavours.

TYPES

Essentially, there are 5 types:

1. .ini files - these hold values that represent sums, counts, or extremes, for cumulus to read, and update, as it reads the weather observations, click on links below for details
2. .txt files - these are the logs that Cumulus updates at defined intervals to hold details of what has happened, but it can also read these files when requested, click on links below for details
3. .xml file - this holds the Cumulus 1 Weather_Diary. Although it uses standard XML, the component that Cumulus 1 uses also writes a special value that other XML editors will not understand.
4. .db file - there are two of these for Cumulus MX, click on links below for details
5. diagnostics .log files, see both this page and this page for Cumulus 1 diagnostics, and see this page for Cumulus MX diagnostics

Cumulus MX also has some JSON files with data for its web pages. See MX announcements for more details, as this functionality varies depending on your MX release.

Not all files are in original Cumulus and MX

Most log files apply to both Cumulus 1 and Cumulus MX, but a few log files are only used by one flavour. There is full information at compare original Cumulus and MX page, but here are some examples.

• Speciallog.txt is only Cumulus 1.
• cumulusmx.db is only MX.
• Weather Diary is stored in different formats for Cumulus 1 and MX.
• Also, various .ini log files have different formats (for dates, times, decimals) in Cumulus 1 (where they take formats from Control Panel settings) and MX (where they ignore locale settings, and have a fixed format set in MX).