Situational analysis is the cyclical execution of the scientific method and can take into account various situations that will initiate a recovery procedure.
A power outage or catastrophic hardware failure has caused the system (all if not most JVMs) to stop.
New requests continue to flow into the system but on the surface it appears that all processing has stopped.
Transaction time-outs are reported and there is evidence of an overflow of the planned capacity.
The system is responsive and the database seems to work correctly. Unfortunately, new process instance creation is failing.