Suppressing Windows Event Log Messages

If you run the database server as a Windows service, you can set the SAP SQL Anywhere registry entry to suppress event log entries.

To control event log entries, set the EventLogMask key, which is of type REG_DWORD.

The value is a bitmask containing the internal bit values for the different types of event messages:

errors EVENTLOG_ERROR_TYPE 0x0001
warnings EVENTLOG_WARNING_TYPE 0x0002
information EVENTLOG_INFORMATION_TYPE 0x0004

If the EventLogMask, for example, is set to zero, no messages appear at all. Setting EventLogMask to 1 surpresses informational and warning messages, but logs all errors messages. The default setting (no entry present) logs all message types to appear.