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Installation and Configuration
Installation : Administration Utilities : OpenEdge event logging : Event logging in Windows : Managing OpenEdge events in Windows
 
Managing OpenEdge events in Windows
You can define the level of event logging that you want your OpenEdge application to support by using either the Event Level Environment Variable (EVTLEVEL) or the Event Level startup parameter (-evtlevel).
The following table describes the valid Event Level values.
Table 38. Event Level values
Value
Description
None
No OpenEdge events are written to the event log.
Brief
OpenEdge messages defined as Error and Warning messages are written to the event log.
Normal
OpenEdge messages defined as Error and Warning messages are written to the event log. In addition, any Progress message that is normally written to the log file (.lg) is also written to the Event Log. This is the default.
Full
Every message generated by OpenEdge is written to the Event Log. Any OpenEdge messages generated using the Message Statements are also written to the log file.