Fault management
In
network management,
fault management is the
set of functions that (a) detect, isolate, and correct malfunctions in a telecommunications network, (b) compensate for environmental changes, and (c) include maintaining and examining
error logs, accepting and acting on error
detection notifications, tracing and identifying faults, carrying out sequences of diagnostics tests, correcting faults, reporting error conditions, and localizing and tracing faults by examining and manipulating
database information.
Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188