The number of vital trace conditions encountered. A vital trace indicates that an unexpected path was taken in the software, which warrants further investigation. These vital trace conditions should not affect service; situations that are service affecting will be covered by Alarms or Events.
During application start-up and shutdown, vital traces are used to show details that can aid in debugging of initialization and shutdown problems. These traces are always enabled and cannot be turned off.
It is a VITAL error condition for any other instance.
Recovery