This read-write integer reflects the last known operating state of the Event Detector Daemon-started-monitoring, stopped-monitoring, or unknown-and changing it triggers an eddState trap rather than persisting across agent restarts. An admin uses this to confirm whether the EDD is actively watching for platform events after issuing a control action via sspPlatformAppEddControl. For example, after sending a start(1) control command, the admin would poll this state object and expect to see started-monitoring(1) confirming the daemon picked up the request.