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Maintaining and Monitoring Your Database : Logged Data : Event logging in Windows : Understanding the event log components
 
Understanding the event log components
The components of the Event Log are standards defined by Windows. The table below describes the Event Log columns.
Table 60. Event Log components
Column
Description
Date
Date the event occurred.
Time
Time the event occurred.
Source
Source of the event. If the source of the event is a connected OpenEdge database, the database's name appears in this column.
Category
There are 16 OpenEdge event categories: AIW, APPBROKER, APPSERVER, APW, BACKUP, BIW, DATASERVER, MON, OIBRKR, OIDRVR, OpenEdge, RFUTIL, SERVER, SHUT, USER, and WDOG. The APPBROKER and APPSERVER categories appear in the Event Log only when messages are logged by the AppServer™ application broker and application server, respectively.All categories reside in a file called category.dll. These categories correspond to the existing categories of events that are displayed in the progress.lg file (application broker and application server events are displayed in the AppServer log file, proapsv.lg).
Event
The OpenEdge message number that was generated. These are the same message numbers that are displayed in the standard database .lg file.
User
Identifies the user logged in to the Windows workstation where the event occurred.
Computer
Identifies the name of the Windows workstation where the event occurred. The Event Viewer enables you to get more information about events by double-clicking on any event.
Select an event to view additional information about it.