Activating a monitoring task

When SM2 is called for the first time during a session, the SM2 monitoring task is activated. This is an internal task which collects the monitored data, edits it, and stores it in a central buffer. From this buffer, the data is transferred to the various SM2 user tasks or to the SM2 output file for output. If different offline and online periods are selected, the monitored data is written to two central buffer stores.

The precise time at which the SM2 monitoring task was initiated and the online or offline period selected is given in the SM2 MEASUREMENT STATUS under SM2 GATHERING TASK CREATED AT, ONLINE PERIOD, OFFLINE PERIOD.