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Options - Auto Save PingPlotter can be set to automatically create a .PP2 save file at a specified interval. This can be coupled with "Maximum samples to hold in memory" to minimize the amount of memory used on long monitoring projects. PingPlotter can also be setup to create an image of the current data, as seen on the graphs. Using this, you could auto-save for a time period, then create some kind of "album" to post for proof of a problem. The save interval must have elapsed before the first save happens. This is so short-term tests don't automatically create images. ***Note: Starting with PingPlotter v2.60 a new more efficient way of navigating all of the different options within PingPlotter was introduced. If you have a version of PingPlotter earlier than 2.60 your screen won't look like this. To download and upgrade to the latest version of PingPlotter 2.x, please go to the PingPlotter download page at www.pingplotter.com/download.html. 1. Here you can toggle on/off
the auto-saving of data. Also in this section you can set the save interval,
which tells PingPlotter how often to save the data, and what filename
to save the data to. If the file already exists it will be overwritten. This
means you can combine a pretty fast save interval, coupled with a generic file
name (i.e.: $host), and save your data often without creating a lot of extra files.
The file name defaults to the current path. The following variables can be used
in the name: 2. Notice in our screenshot that their is an * next to Auto-Save (and also General) in the navigation pane to the left. That indicates that you have not "applied" the changes you've made. PingPlotter has Apply, Ok and Cancel buttons like most options within Windows. This is so that you can Apply your changes, click Ok and leave the settings dialog box and Cancel to scrap any changes you may have made. 3. In the Auto Save
Image Options section you can set the save interval, to tell PingPlotter how often
to save the images, what filename to save the data to and what type of image
format to save the graph in (BMP, GIF or PNG, with PNG being the format we recommend). Just like the auto-saving of data, the file
name defaults to the current path, and if the file already exists it will be
overwritten. The same variables used for the data saves are also used for the
file name here: 4. A note about valid characters in filenames: Using colons (:), quotes, slashes or backslashes are not valid in the file names for save files or images. Because these characters are invalid for use in file names at the operating system level, we can't create files with those! Pay especially close attention to this when creating files with times in them. We all naturally want to use a colon to separate the hours and minutes, but the Windows file system doesn't allow this. |
