Create recovery plan panel options
Use this wizard panel to specify a name, description, and tasks for the recovery plan. Table: Create recovery plan describes the options for creating 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: Create recovery plan
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | Enter a name for the recovery plan. |
| Description | Enter the description of the recovery plan. |
| Add | Click to add a Virtual Business Service (VBS), service group, or a script to the recovery plan. |
| An empty VBS does not get listed for selection when you try to create a recovery plan. | |
| Import | Click to import an existing recovery plan. The tasks of the imported recovery plan along with the associated objects, are appended to the list of tasks. If you import a script task, the script is also copied for the new recovery plan. |
| Following are some exceptions where only the template (tasks without objects) of the recovery plan is imported: | |
| - If you do not have access privileges on any of the objects (Virtual Business Service, service group, or host) that are associated with a task of the imported recovery plan. | |
| - If any of the objects that are associated with a task of the imported recovery plan have been deleted. | |
| In these conditions, you can select any other object of the same object type for that particular task. | |
| Delete | Click to delete a Virtual Business Service, service group, or a script task 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. | |
| Site-aware service group operations are available only if the systems that belong to the cluster have the managed host version 6.1 installed on them. |
Table: Task Properties
| - | - |
|---|---|
| Description | You can add the description of the task that is selected. |
| Critical | If a task marked as critical fails, recovery plan execution is aborted and remaining tasks are not executed. |
| If a task marked as non-critical fails, recovery plan execution continues with the remaining tasks. | |
| 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 within the specified time. The task may or may not complete successfully, but recovery plan does not track any changes after the expiry of specified timeout. |
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