## 1 Introduction

### 1.1 About this document

The SASL application provides support for:

- error logging
- alarm handling
- overload regulation
- release handling
- report browsing.

In addition to this introductory part, the User's Guide includes the following chapters:

- Chapter 2: "SASL Error Logging" describes the error handler which produces the supervisor, progress, and crash reports which can be written to screen, or to a specified file. It also describes the report browser `rb_server`.
- Chapter 3: "The Release Structure" provides an overview of the Erlang release tools and processes.
- Chapter 4: "Release Handling" describes the administration and principles of release handling in detail.

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