IBM BPM, V8.0.1, All platforms > Troubleshooting and support > Recovering from a failure > Recovery: Analyzing the problem
Situational analysis
Situational analysis is the cyclical execution of the scientific method and can take into account various situations that will initiate a recovery procedure.
The following list is of the different types of situations that will initiate a recovery procedure:
- Abnormal termination or system down
A power outage or catastrophic hardware failure has caused the system (all if not most JVMs) to stop.
- System is not responsive
New requests continue to flow into the system but on the surface it appears that all processing has stopped.
- System is functional but is severely overloaded
Transaction time-outs are reported and there is evidence of an overflow of the planned capacity.
- System is unable to initiate new process instance
The system is responsive and the database seems to work correctly. Unfortunately, new process instance creation is failing.