First Failure Support Technology™ (FFST™) is a licensed program that captures information about a potential problem when it occurs. See First Failure Support Technology (FFST) for descriptions of the various FFST probes contained in TCP/IP.

When a problem is detected, a software probe is triggered by TCP/IP. FFST then collects information about the problem and generates output to help solve the problem. Based on the options active for the probe, you get a dump and a generic alert. See Generic alert for information about generic alerts. You also get the FFST “EPW” message group.