Zebra Technologies P1071336-002 Manuale Utente

Configuring Weblink

1/20/15

P1071336-002

The logging settings are atypical to the Weblink settings as they do not require the printer to be 
reset before taking effect. This does not mean that previous logging messages that would have 
been logged will appear when the 

max_entries 

setting is changed from zero (0) to a greater 

value. It means that any new logging messages will be logged from that point forward.

Issue the following command to clear any log entries currently in the 

weblink.logging.entries

 buffer.

! U1 do "weblink.logging.clear" ""

The log will contain useful information, even in the scenario where the printer successfully 
connects to the remote server. This section explains how to read the log and highlights some of 
the key entries that will help to determine if the connection was successful.

A typical log entry looks as follows:

[12‐04‐2012 14:57:10.625] [conn1.1] Attempting connection to 
https://www.examplecorpinc.com/zebra/weblink/

The first column is the date and time that the event occurred. The format of the date and time 
matches the format of 

rtc.date

 and 

rtc.time

. The time, however, also includes the 

milliseconds to aid in troubleshooting network latency concerns.

The second column indicates the connection name and channel that the entries are associated 
with. The connection name will match the weblink branch that was configured with the 
respective URL (for example, conn1 or conn2). The channel number indicates which channel 
on the respective connection that the entries corresponds to.

The third column is the actual message, which contains information about what occurred in the 
printer at the corresponding time in column one. In the above example, the printer was 
initiating the connection to the URL specified in 

weblink.ip.conn1.location

. 

Review the section titled 

 to understand what it means 

when certain logging messages/errors appear in the log.

For printers that do not have a battery to store the Real Time Clock (RTC) value, the 

date will be restored to the default value upon a power cycle. The default value depends upon 
how the rtc.date Set/Get/Do (SGD) is managed. If it has never been set, then it will default to 
the firmware build date (the value in appl.date). Otherwise, the value in rtc.date will default 
to the value that it was last set to. This does not mean the value of the rtc.date when it was 
power cycled – it means that when a user sets 

rtc.date

, that value becomes the new default 

value. If the printer has a battery, then the 

rtc.date

 never defaults and continues to track the 

date as expected.

Channels are additional connections that are requested by the server when the server 

needs to perform a specific operation that cannot be done on the channel(s) currently open. 
Typically only the RAW channel is open, which operates similar to the RAW TCP port. It is 
typical to see two channels opened—the main channel and the RAW channel.