Running the disaster recovery fire drill

Last published : Jun 19, 2026
In Veritas InfoScale Operations Manager, you can perform disaster recovery (DR) fire drills on the service groups.
To perform this task, your user group must be assigned the Admin or Operator role on the service group or the Availability perspective. The permission on the service group may be explicitly assigned or inherited from a parent Organization or cluster.
To run the disaster recovery fire drill
  1. In the Management Server console, go to the Availability perspective and selectManage in the left pane.
  2. Expand the Organization or Uncategorized Clusters to locate the cluster.
  3. Expand the cluster and then the Service Groups node to locate the service group.
  4. Right-click on the service group and select Fire Drill>Run DR Fire Drill.
  5. In the Select Remote Clusters and Global Service Groups wizard panel, specify the required details and click Next.
See Select remote clusters and global service groups panel options.
  1. In the Schedule wizard panel, specify the schedule to run the DR fire drill and click Next.
See Schedule panel options.
  1. In the Summary panel, verify the selections that you have made and click Finish.
See Summary panel options.
  1. In the Result panel, click OK.
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