User's Manual

D-30 Customizing the DecisioNet System
Failure Detection and Analysis
The Failure Detection and Analysis (FDA) software can be used as a
background service to report on the condition of DecisioNet System
hardware. FDA is one of the applications on the optional EPL System
Information Package.
When the FDA is installed, it starts along with the other EPL
applications, runs continuously, and logs errors as they occur. Reports
are sent to the console and placed in the EPL System Error Log. In a
Windows NT system, FDA also logs error conditions to the Windows
NT Event Log. Included with these entries are probable cause and
recommended action information.
Changing the Failure Detection and Analysis Time Interval
The default time is 30 minutes in the S55fda.bat file in the
Windows NT \epl\bin\scripts directory. Edit the batch file and set the
time frame to the desired length.
@echo off
echo Starting Failure Detection/Analysis
if "%1" == "startservice" goto startservice
start /min ..\esfda –m30
goto finish
:startservice
..\startsrv svfda
:finish
The default time is 30 minutes in the S55fda script in the UNIX
/epl/bin/scripts directory. Edit the batch file and set the time frame to
the desired length.
echo Starting Failure Detection/Analysis
esfda -m30 > $ESCONFIGDIR/ esfda.out 2>&1 &