Patent ID: 7711991

Claim:
A computer program product, comprising at least one computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code comprising an algorithm adapted to implement a method for monitoring a plurality of partitions in a computer system, said method 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 adapted to store at least one error entry pertaining to the partition, each error entry including a partition identifier (PI), an entry status indicator (ESI), and an error identifier (EI), said partition identifier identifying the partition, said entry status identifier indicating a READ status or UNREAD status of the error entry, said error identifier identifying a detected error for the partition; 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.