Edit recovery plan panel options

Last published : Jul 06, 2026
Use this wizard panel to modify a name, description, tasks, and task properties for the recovery plan. Table: Edit recovery plan describes the options for editing a recovery plan. Table: Task Properties describes the properties of the tasks that are defined as part of the recovery plan.
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Table: Edit recovery plan

Field Description
Name Modify the name for the recovery plan.
Description Modify the description of the recovery plan.
Add Click to add a Virtual Business Service, service group, or a script to the recovery plan.
An empty VBS does not get listed for selection when you try to edit a recovery plan.
Import Click to import an existing recovery plan. The tasks of the existing recovery plan are appended to the list of tasks.
Delete Click to delete a Virtual Business Service, service group, or a script from the recovery plan.
Move Up Click to change the order of the tasks within the recovery plan upwards.
Move Down Click to change the order of the tasks within the recovery plan downwards.
Type Select the type of recovery plan object from the drop-down list.
Name Specify the name of the recovery plan object selected.
Action Select an action from the drop-down list.
This drop-down list displays the actions that can be performed on the objects with in recovery plan.
For a site-aware service group, you can select the site on which the online/offline operation needs to be performed. For a non site-aware service group, you can choose to online/offline on any system.
For VBS and script, available actions are start/stop and execute respectively.

Table: Task Properties

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Description You can modify the description of the task that is selected.
Critical Default value for Critical is No . you can modify the default value. If a task is marked as critical and it fails, then the recovery plan is aborted and the remaining tasks are not run. If the task is marked as not critical, then even if the task fails, the recovery plan execution is not stopped.
Timeout (mins) Default value for Timeout is 5 minutes . You can modify the timeout value.
When you specify the timeout, you need to ensure that the task gets executed out within the specified time. The task gets executed in the background and the recovery plan does not track any changes that may happen to the task from the backend. Recovery plan does not track even if the forked process that is executed from the recovery plan for script execution gets killed in the backend.
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