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Database Administration
Maintaining and Monitoring Your Database : Logged Data : Saving key database events : Saving key events
 
Saving key events
When you enable your database to save key events, an additional database process is created to handle the responsibility. This background database process periodically scans your database log file, creating records of the key events in the _KeyEvt table. When successfully started, the key event process writes messages to your log file similar to the following:
[2006/04/06@10:52:58.578-0400] P-6450 T-1 I KEVTRDR 5: (13658)
Starting the Save Key Events daemon.
[2006/04/06@10:52:58.578-0400] P-6450 T-1 I KEVTRDR 5: (2518)
Started.
The key event process is also visible in PROMON. The following example shows User Control output from a database enabled to save key events:
User Control:
Usr Name Type Wait Area Dbkey Trans PID Sem Srv Login Time
0 docdemo  BROK -- 0 0 0 11117 0 0 04/07/06 13:50
5 docdemo  MON -- 0 0 0 11220 2 0 04/07/06 13:50
6 KERD -- 0 0 0 11235 3 0 04/07/06 13:50
RETURN - repeat, U - continue uninterrupted, Q - quit:
The new process type, KERD, represents the key event process.