International Business Machines Corporation

Dawn S Moyer

Robert Francis Bartfai

Mark G Atkins

Nicholas P Rash

LeRoy R Lundin

John W Doxtader

The management and analysis of events of communications environments are facilitated. Events, such as alert and network events, are separated into a plurality of pools, depending on the classification of event. Each pool has events exclusive of one type of event. The events are placed in the appropriate pools via one or more analysis routines. Additionally, events of at least one type of pool are further analyzed using one or more analysis routines to determine which events, if any, are to be reported.

Facilitating event management and analysis within a communications environment

Adapters, which provide message communications capabilities in a multinode data processing network, are provided with a mechanism for indicating critical errors from which recovery may ultimately be possible. Error handling capabilities are incorporated which operate both globally and locally to insure, to the greatest extent possible, that applications running on the network are not prematurely terminated and that the node with the error affected adapter is not prematurely removed from its connectivity with the other nodes within it network group.

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Dawn S Moyer