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7.1.2 Event monitor
Snapshot Monitors let you “take a picture” of your system at a given time. Event
monitors
allow you to collect information about the database and any connected
applications when specified events occur. This tool is available on all platforms.
You can define an event monitor by the type of event or events you want to
monitor. You can monitor events such as database, tables, deadlocks, table
spaces, buffer pools, connections, statements, and transactions.
With DB2 UDB V8, you can store the monitor data in tables, files, or named
pipes.
Use the following procedure to set up the event monitor: ...