Patent ID: 7516370

Claim:
A method for error monitoring of a plurality of partitions in a computer system, said method comprising executing a computer readable program code stored on at least one computer usable medium of the computer system, said executing comprising: providing a partition status indicator (PSI) for each partition of the plurality of partitions, said partition status indicator denoting a RUNNING status or a FAIL status of the partition; providing an error log area for each partition, said error log area configured to store at least one error entry pertaining to the partition, each error entry including an entry status indicator (ESI), said entry status identifier indicating a READ status or UNREAD status of the error entry; ascertaining, during a booting of each partition, whether each partition has the RUNNING status or the FAIL status and setting the partition status indicator of each partition as the RUNNING status or the FAIL status if said ascertaining has ascertained that each partition has the RUNNING status or the FAIL status, respectively; examining the partition status indicator of each partition to determine whether the partition has the FAIL status, each examined partition being denoted as a first partition; and performing an error procedure for each first partition having the FAIL status as determined by said examining, said performing comprising: copying each error entry in the error log area of the first partition whose entry status indicator indicates the UNREAD status into the error log area of a second partition of the plurality of partitions, said second partition being a running partition; setting the entry status indicator to the READ status for each copied error entry in the error log area of the first partition; and having the entry status indicator set to the UNREAD status for each copied error entry in the error log area of the second partition.