November 2009
Beginner
456 pages
9h 58m
English
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7. Fault Management
This chapter discusses the basic concepts and components of the Fault Management system in the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris 10 OS). It covers the following:
• An overview of the Fault Manager
• How a user is notified of faults in the system
• Displaying and repairing faults
• Managing log files and Fault Manager modules
• Description of the on-disk files related to the Fault Manager
• Pointers to additional online resources
7.1 Overview
The Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris 10 OS) introduced an exciting new feature called Predictive Self-Healing. This feature provides fine-grained fault isolation and restart capability, where possible, for any hardware or software component that experiences a problem. The feature ...