Register * You must register for access to some support pages  FAQ Search   Support Main Menu  Entry #470: How to widen an event column Question How to widen an event column Answer There are two steps necessary to expand the size of an EventList column. In the PROTOMGR section of the agent.xml file, you must first exclude the original column, and then you put it back in with its new definition. For example, to expand the PID column from four characters to eight characters, you first exclude it using the EXCLUDE_EVENT entry, and then redefine it with a REDEFINE_EVENT entry. You should see the syntax in the TEMPLATE of the PROTOMGR section. Exclude the original four-character Pid column by using the EXCLUDE_EVENT syntax. In the COLUMN element, there is one space followed by the three characters �PID� Redefine the fourth column (position=4) as the Pid column, where there are five spaces followed by the three characters Pid. <EXCLUDE_EVENT> <CLASS>Baseline-Thread</CLASS> <EVENT_EXCLUDE_METHOD>SPECIFIED COLUMN</EVENT_EXCLUDE_METHOD> <COLUMN> Pid</COLUMN> </EXCLUDE_EVENT> <REDEFINE_EVENT> <INPUT_METRIC>Windows System.PerfData.NT Baseline.Thread.ID Process</INPUT_METRIC> <EVENT_CLASS>Baseline-Thread</EVENT_CLASS> <COLUMN_NAME> Pid</COLUMN_NAME> <POSITION>4</POSITION> <TYPE>UINT32</TYPE> <FORM>RAW</FORM> <SCALE>NOSCALE</SCALE> </REDEFINE_EVENT> Once you make the update, you need to stop and restart the Power Agent to pick up the new configuration. Symptoms Asterisks in the event data entry. Cause The value to be displayed has more characters than the width of the column.