First Failure Support Technology/2

IBM OS/2 First Failure Support Technology/2 (FFST/2) provides Reliability, Accountability and Serviceability (RAS) functions. In the event of an error, FFST/2 can capture and recording of error data and reporting of the error. Generic alerts are generated, formatted in Network Management Vector Transport (NMVT) format and then sent to a management system.

It allows network administrators to monitor and respond over the network to errors that occur on OS/2 systems.

Products
Shipped with FFST/2 component:
 * IBM Extended Services for OS/2 1.0
 * IBM OS/2 LAN Server 2.0
 * IBM FASTService Release 2 for OS/2
 * IBM Communications Manager/2 Version 1.0
 * IBM DATABASE 2 for OS/2 1.0
 * IBM OS/2 Warp Connect
 * IBM OS/2 Warp Version 4

Configuration
You can enable FFST by putting on the Config.sys: RUN=C:\OS2\EPW.EXE MAXAPLDUMP=75

Files
See also: FFST/2 API

Articles

 * First Failure Support Technology (FFST) - Probing for Solutions to OS/2 Problems