You can configure Site Recovery Manager to present prompts for notification and acknowledgment by users performing specific operations. Site Recovery Manager also provides a mechanism to run commands and scripts when testing or running a recovery plan.
Site Recovery Manager Prompts
Some additional steps may be required before, during, and after running a recovery plan. For example, you may set up the environment so that a message appears when a recovery plan is initiated, and that the administrator must acknowledge the prompt before the recovery plan continues.
Consider the following example messages and confirmation steps:
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Verify that external services such as load balancers, authentication, and DNS are available.
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After the management applications are recovered, perform application tests to verify that the applications are functioning correctly.
Additionally, confirmation steps can be inserted after every group of services that have a dependency on other services. These confirmations can be used to pause the recovery plan so that appropriate verification and testing be performed before subsequent steps are taken. These services are defined as follows:
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Infrastructure services
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Core services
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Database services
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Middleware services
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Application services
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Web services
Details on each message are specified in the workflow definition of the individual recovery plan.
