The Event Viewer database is used for storing data about events registered in the system. It can be a part of the Intellect database (by default) or a separate database (see Extracting event protocol into an individual database).

The Event Viewer database is configured by means of the settings panel of the Computer system object.

To configure the Event Viewer database, do the following:

1. To disable events recording to the Event Viewer database, set the Disable protocol checkbox (1). This setting is relevant only for the Server corresponding to the Computer object.
   
2. Set the Only local protocols checkbox in case when only events registered on this computer are be logged to the database (2). This setting is relevant only for the Server corresponding to the Computer object.

3. In the Event archive length field specify the time period for storing the event archive in the Event Viewer database (3). This setting is relevant only for the Server corresponding to the Computer object. To specify the time period for storing the event archive for all Servers in the distributed system, use the common settings in the Programming tab (see The Settings panel of the Security zone object section). The value of the Events archive length parameter on the settings panel of the Computer object has the higher priority.

   If no value is specified in the Events archive length field in the configuration panel of the Computer object, the value specified in the configuration panel of the Security zoneobject is used.

4. Click the Apply button to save all the changes (4).

The Event Viewer database is now configured.