Event Level (-evtlevel)
- Last Updated: January 26, 2026
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- OpenEdge
- Version 12.8
- Documentation
Event Level (-evtlevel)
Use Event Level (-evtlevel) to specify the level of information that
OpenEdge writes to the Windows Application Event Log.
| Operating system and syntax | Windows |
-evtlevel
value
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Use with | Maximum value | Minimum value | Single-user default | Multi-user default |
| Client Session, Database Server | — | — | Normal | Normal |
- value
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None— No OpenEdge events are written to the Event Log. -
Brief— OpenEdge Error and Warning messages are written to the Event Log. -
Normal— OpenEdge Error and Warning messages are written to the Event Log along with any OpenEdge message that is normally written to the log file (.lg). This is the default. -
Full— OpenEdge Error, Warning, and Informational messages are written to the Event Log along with any messages generated by the Message Statement.
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For more information about OpenEdge and the Windows Event Log, see Event logging in Windows in Manage the OpenEdge Database.