Online Documentation for SQL Manager for DB2
Event Monitors
An Event Monitor is a database object for monitoring and collecting data on database activities over a period of time.
To create a new event monitor:
- select the Database | New Object... main menu item;
- select Event Monitor in the Create New Object dialog;
- edit event monitor properties using the appropriate tabs of Event Monitor Editor.
Hint: To create a new event monitor, you can also right-click the Event Monitors node of the DB Explorer tree and select the Event Monitor... context menu item.
To create a new event monitor with the same properties as one of existing event monitors has:
- select the Database | Duplicate Object... main menu item;
- follow the instructions of Duplicate Object Wizard.
Alternatively, you can right-click an event monitor in the DB Explorer tree and select the Duplicate Event Monitor <event_monitor_name>... context menu item.
Duplicate Object Wizard allows you to select the database to create a new event monitor in, and to edit the result SQL statement for creating the event monitor.
To edit an existing event monitor:
- select the event monitor for editing in the DB Explorer tree (type the first letters of the event monitor name for quick search);
- right-click the object and select the Edit Event Monitor <event_monitor_name>... context menu item, or simply double-click the event monitor;
- edit event monitor definition using the appropriate tabs of Event Monitor Editor.
To drop an event monitor:
- select the event monitor to drop in the DB Explorer tree;
- right-click the object and select the Drop Event Monitor <event_monitor_name>... context menu item;
- confirm dropping in the dialog window.
Note: If more convenient, you can also use the following shortcuts:
Ctrl+N to create a new event monitor;
Ctrl+O to edit the selected event monitor;
Shift+Del to drop the object from the database.