174 WebSphere Application Server V8.5 Concepts, Planning, and Design Guide
7.5.4 Testing
As with each component in your environment, do not forget to test your monitoring
infrastructure regularly. If the implementation is new, test every monitoring alert, and ensure
that your monitoring detects each condition of your system properly.
Do not stop your testing when you see a monitoring situation raised. Test the whole process,
including alerting and incident management, and ensure that conditions are reset
automatically as soon as the situation is back to normal.
7.6 Backup and recovery
In general, IT hardware and software are reliable. However, failures can occur that can
damage a system, network device, software product, configuration, or more ...