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

Directory	Filename	Comments
\OS2\	EPW.EXE	EPW.INI, EPW.MSG
	EPWCONS.EXE
	EPWDD.SYS
	EPWDDR3.EXE
	EPWDF.EXE	Dump Formatter
	EPWFOLD.ICO	Folder icon
	EPWMP.EXE
	EPWMUX.EXE
	EPWPCT.EXE
	EPWPSI.EXE
	EPWROUT.EXE
	MSGLOGF.EXE
	MSGWRT.EXE
	FFST.EXE
	FFSTCONF.EXE	FFST Configurator (FFSTCONF.ICO)
	FFSTPCT.EXE	Creates or changes Probe Control Table (PCT) entry
\OS2\DLL\	EPWINIT.DLL
	EPWNL001.DLL
	EPWPRO.DLL	FFST/2 DLL
	EPWPROB.DLL	FFST/2 DLL
	EPWPROB2.DLL	FFST/2 DLL
	EPWPSI16.DLL	DosProbe
	EPWPSI32.DLL	DosProbe
	EPWSVC16.DLL	SVC
	EPWSVC32.DLL	SVC
	ERRLOG.DLL	LogSPChangeEventFilter
	FFCONFIG.DLL	QueryConfig
	FFDUMP.DLL	ValidateDumpsForList
	FFGUI.DLL	FFST Config GUI
	FFIPC.DLL	IPC Pipe
	FFPCT.DLL	PCTOverflow
	FFPROBE.DLL	ProcessFFSTProbe
	FFST.DLL	FFSTSetConfiguration
\OS2\HELP\	EPWNL001.HLP	Help for FFST/2
	FFST.HLP	Help for FFST Configurator

See also: FFST/2 API

References

• Problem Determination Programmer's Guide

Articles

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

External Links

• Using the FFST for OS/2 Utility