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Understanding the Windows Application Event Log components
The components of the Windows Application Event Log are standards defined by Windows. The following figure illustrates the Windows Application Event Log components when shown through the Event Viewer.
Figure 3. Windows Application Event Log components
The following table describes how Progress uses the Windows Application Event Log components.
Table 39. Windows Application Event Log components
Log component
Log information
Type
Identifies the type of message such as Information, Warning, or Error.
Date
Identifies the date the event occurred.
Time
Identifies the time the event occurred.
Source
Source of the event. This is the name of the connected Progress database, if a database is connected. If no database is connected, then "Progress" is listed. If you are using the Progress AppServer, "Progress" is also the default source for Progress AppServer messages. However, you can override the default source name by specifying the -logname AppServer broker startup parameter.
Category
Provides information to help you isolate the cause of the message displayed in the Event Log. Progress supports 14 event categories. The event categories are: AIW, APW, BACKUP, BIW, DATASERVER, MON, OIBRKR, OIDRVR, Progress, RFUTIL, SERVER, SHUT, USER, and PROWDOG. When no database is connected, Progress is specified as the category.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 (AppServer broker and application server events are displayed in the AppServer log file, proapsv.lg). (Note that DATASERVER is not included as a category in the standard progress.lg file.)
Event
Associates to the Progress message 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 allows you to get more information about events by double-clicking on any event.
You can view additional information about an event by double-clicking on it. Windows displays the Event Properties dialog box, as shown in the following figure.
Figure 4. Windows application Event Properties dialog box
The Event tab displays details about the event you initially select. You can also use the arrow controls on the Event tab to scroll through detailed information about the other events that appear on the Windows Application Event Log components viewer as shown in the figure .