DECevent Event Management Utility

DECevent is an event-management utility for Digital UNIX that translates system event log files into formatted ASCII reports. DECevent supports both a command-line and a graphical user interface (GUI). Event report information can be filtered by event types, date, time, and event entry numbers. Event report formats can be selected from full disclosure to very brief information messages. The -i (include) and the -x (exclude) options provide a wide range of selection criteria to narrow down the focus of event searches.

The DECevent utility also offers an interactive command shell interface, accessible with the command --int, that recognizes the same commands used at the command line. From the interactive command shell users can customize, change, or save system settings.

DECevent uses the system event log file /usr/adm/binary.errlog as the default input file for event reporting, unless another file is specified

Unless the event log file privileges have been changed to allow all users to read the event log file, which is a rare practice, Digital UNIX users need superuser privileges to use DECevent.

For more information on DECevent, see the DECevent Translation and Reporting Utility for Digital UNIX User and Reference Guide.