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.