Technical data

SINAUT Diagnostics and Service tool
3.3 SINAUT diagnostics
Software
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If the manual stop option is selected, monitoring is also stopped in the TIM Message Monitor
progress bar.
Figure 3-22 TIM Message Monitor dialog
Operator activities
1. Select a subscriber in the SINAUT subscriber list of the open project.
2. Open the
TIM Message Monitor dialog by selecting the SINAUT / TIM Message Monitor
menu.
3. In the
Output file box, enter the name of a file of the type *.7dt , in which your recorded
TIM messages will be saved or browse for the directory of the 7dt file in the file tree using
the square button.
4. In the
TIM Message Monitor dialog, in the Monitor stop action area, select one of the
three options for starting message monitoring. If you select manual, you must decide
whether the recorded messages are read by continuous sampling or after stopping
monitoring.
5. Start monitoring with the
Start Monitor button. The TIM Message Monitor progress dialog
opens and displays information on the acquisition mode and the progress of the message
recording over time indicating the elapsed and remaining time. The amount of data read
and data remaining is also displayed.
6. Click on the
End Monitor button in the TIM Message Monitor dialog to stop monitoring
manually.
7. In the next dialog, decide whether you want to read the monitored messages immediately
(the
TIM Message protocol window opens) or whether you want to read the monitored
messages at a later point in time (you return to the SINAUT subscriber list).
Note
You can open and evaluate the TIM message protocol later using the
TIM message
protocol
function of the Diagnostics and Service tool.