This read-write integer lets an admin command the Event Detector Daemon (EDD) to start, stop, or reconfig, and reading it back returns the last action requested rather than a persisted setting since the agent resets it to unknown on restart. Because setting this object also triggers an eddControl trap, it doubles as both a control switch and a way to generate a notification confirming the change was issued. For example, after updating event-detection rules, an admin would set this to reconfig(3) to make the EDD reload its configuration without a full daemon restart.