Performance issues can also affect the reliability of your applications and environment, and can both be triggered by network faults, and in some cases they can even be the reason for a network fault.

The operational architecture artifact represents a network of computer systems that support some of the performance, scalability, and fault tolerance (among others) requirements of the solution.

Note that the handle method in every extension to the com.ibm.rcp.net.faults.handler extension point is called every time any type of network fault is detected.