The Administrative Service logs all the user and system actions. Activities, such as errors, warnings, failures, recovery, starting or stopping any services are captured in the events log.

The following information is listed on Events:

You can filter events based on the columns in the Events list. To filter the events, select the required filter value from the Filter drop-down list, and click Go. The search returns all the relevant events.

The events are also available in Windows System Event viewer. After installing the Runtime Administration, the Unisys Data Exchange node is created in the Event Viewer > Applications and Service Logs. For every event displayed on Events, a corresponding System Event, with the same information, is created in this node. This enables you to create your own program to monitor the System Event log to check the status of Data Exchange.

In the Administration Site Events, the Source column displays the source database whereas in the Event Viewer the Source displays the source application, which is the Administrative Service. In the Event Viewer, the source database details are displayed in Event Source in the General Tab.

The event data always contains 7 parameters. Some of the values may be empty if it is not applicable, but an empty data item still remains there.

An Event data is formatted as:

<EventData>
<Data>The event description.</Data>
<Data>The error details.</Data>
<Data>The related transformations files.</Data>
<Data>The 3 digit error ID.</Data>
<Data>The source host name.</Data>
<Data>The source database name.</Data>
<Data>Diagnostic information for the error.</Data>
</EventData>

The Event IDs and their descriptions are provided in the following table: