Please ensure Javascript is enabled for purposes of website accessibility
Powered by Zoomin Software. For more details please contactZoomin

AVEVA™ Plant SCADA

Debug Parameters

  • Last UpdatedMay 04, 2026
  • 3 minute read

The Citect.ini file contains the following debug parameters:

  • [Debug]ArchiveFiles - Archives log files once maximum size is reached.

  • [Debug]CategoryFilter - Enables log message filtering by component category.

  • [Debug]CategoryFilterMode - Enables or disables logging of categories declared by the [Debug]CategoryFilter value.

  • [Debug]ChromiumDevToolsPort - This parameter was superseded by [Debug]EnableWebContentDevTools with the release of Plant SCADA 2023 R2 Update 21 (May 2026).

  • [Debug]CodeDebug - Enables Cicode debugging for the process containing a specified component.

  • [Debug]CrashOnError - Determines whether Plant SCADA generates a protection violation whenever it detects a software error, for example, a memory corruption error such as "Invalid Heap" , "Already Free", 'try to free bad or unknown memory" or "local free no heap".

  • [Debug]CrashReserveManagedMB - Specifies how much memory is reserved at startup to allow crash handling to occur for managed code.

  • [Debug]CrashReserveNativeMB - Specifies how much memory is reserved at startup to allow crash handling to occur for native code.

  • [Debug]DBLogEnable - Controls whether alarm database logs are enabled.

  • [Debug]DBLogMaxFiles - Controls the maximum number of alarm database log files to keep for the current run of the server.

  • [Debug]DBLogMaxSize - Controls the maximum size of an individual alarm database log file.

  • [Debug]DBLogOldFiles - Controls the maximum number of runs to keep for alarm database log files.

  • [Debug]DebugAllTrans - Allows TRAN session logging to be turned on or off.

  • [Debug]DebugLogHistoryFiles - Determines how many "debug.<process name>.log" files are kept when rolled over.

  • [Debug]DebugLogSize - Sets the maximum size of the "debug.<process name>.log" file.

  • [Debug]DriverTrace -An extension of the Kernel that can be used to display the commands and information being issued to a driver.

  • [Debug]DriverTracePort - Allows a driver trace to be limited to a particular driver port.

  • [Debug]DriverTraceMask - Defines a bit mask that can be used to either include or exclude driver commands from a driver trace.

  • [Debug]DriverCheck - Defines the maximum number of data buffer elements to be displayed in a driver trace.

  • [Debug]DebugAllTrans - Allows TRAN sessions to be logged to the Kernel window for debugging purposes.

  • [Debug]DisableWinTop - Allows you to minimize the likelihood of windows or popups from being forced to the top of the screen.

  • [Debug]DriverCheck - Monitors the structure used to talk to drivers.

  • [Debug]DrWatson - Starts DrWatson when Plant SCADA starts running (if DrWatson is not already running).

  • [Debug]EnableHardwareAlarmLogging - Enables or disables logging of stack traces for hardware alarms to syslog.

  • [Debug]EnableLogging - Enables or disables the logging mechanism.

  • [Debug]EnablePSICounters - Enables or disables the Citect.Platform.PSI.Client and Citect.Platform.PSI.Server performance counters.

  • [Debug]EnableTaskFrameworkCounters - Enables or disables Citect.Platform.Tasks.TaskManager, Citect.Platform.Tasks.TaskQueue and Citect.Platform.Tasks.TaskThread performance counters.

  • [Debug]EnableTransportCounters - Enables or disables Citect.Platform.Transport.SessionTransport and Citect.Platform.Transport.TransportHost performance counters.

  • [Debug]EnableReloadLogging - Enables additional debugging output for server reloads.

  • [Debug]EnableWebContentDevTools - Enables the Inspect option in the context menu for a Web Content control.

  • [Debug]FlushPeriod - Sets the period at which Tracelog file entries are to be flushed to the file system.

  • [Debug]LogDirect - Indicates whether to log directly to a log file or via the Kernel logging system.

  • [Debug]LogsDriveMinimumFreeSpace - Specifies the minimum amount of free space required on the drive that hosts the log directory.

  • [Debug]LogShutDown - Only required if ShutdownProtect is set to log the shutdown sequence.

  • [Debug]MaximumFileSize - Sets the maximum size of an archive file.

  • [Debug]MaxMiniDumps - Sets the maximum number of mini-dump files that are stored in the log directory.

  • [Debug]MaxTableOutputLength - When set will limit the length of tables when they are output to a kernel.dat file.

  • [Debug]Memory - Obsolete in v7.30.

  • [Debug]Menu - Determines whether the Kernel option is displayed on the control menu of the Plant SCADA runtime system.

  • [Debug]MiniDumpType - Defines the type of mini-dump that is performed.

  • [Debug]Priority - Allows you to filter logging messages by priority.

  • [Debug]SeverityFilter - Enables log message filtering by severity.

  • [Debug]SeverityFilterMode - Enables or disables logging of severities declared by the [Debug]SeverityFilter value.

  • [Debug]Shutdown - Determines whether the Shutdown option is displayed on the control menu of the Plant SCADA runtime system.

  • [Debug]ShutDownProtect - Enables shutdown protection.

  • [Debug]SnapshotEnable - Controls whether periodic diagnostic snapshots are enabled for the alarm database.

  • [Debug]SnapshotInterval - Sets the number of minutes between periodic alarm database snapshots.

  • [Debug]SnapshotMaxFiles - Controls the maximum number of alarm database snapshots to keep for the current run of the server.

  • [Debug]SnapshotMaxSize - Controls the maximum size of an alarm database snapshot.

  • [Debug]SnapshotOldFiles - Controls the maximum number of runs to keep for alarm database snapshot files.

  • [Debug]SysErrDsp - Disables many system error logs and popup boxes.

  • [Debug]SysLogArchive - Causes the syslog.dat to automatically timestamp files as they are rolled over.

  • [Debug]SysLogSize - Sets the size of the syslog.dat file.

  • [Debug]UserTraceMode - Allows you to filter messages logged to the syslog.dat.

See Also

Parameter Categories

TitleResults for “How to create a CRG?”Also Available in