Planning for Instrumenting Your Code

There are several things to consider before you begin putting calls to the FFSTProbe API in your code. This section describes the following considerations and steps:

• Define and ensure existence of Vital Product Data (VPD). VPD is the description of your code to the system. The system uses VPD to identify the product that is reporting a problem.
  
• Decide how and where you should code your calls to the FFSTProbe function.
  
• Decide what data you want the function to collect for code failures.