IBM Resiliency Orchestration 7.2 SP5 Admin Guide

549 Pages·2017·6.32 MB·English

Administrator’s Guide
Version 7.2 SP5
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Contents
Introduction 11

IBM Resiliency Orchestration 7.2 SP5 11
Purpose 11
Getting Started 12

Using Online Help 13

About Online Help 13
Launching Online Help 13
The Browser Environment 13
Hiding/ Showing the Navigation Pane 13
Navigation Bar 13
Breadcrumbs 14
Working Area 14
Right Pane 14
Administration Overview 14
About IBM Resiliency Orchestration 14
Log Out 15
Help 15
Quick Start 15
Changing Password 16
Reset Password 16
Architecture Overview 18

Overview 18
Key Features 18
Continuity Monitoring 18
Continuity Management 19
Test Exercise Management 19
Continuity Reports 19
Discovery 20
Support for Heterogeneous technologies: 20
Support for Clusters 20
Support for Software and Hardware Data Protection Technologies 20
Storage-based replication 20
Switch-based replication 20
Host-based replication 20
Key Benefits 21
How IBM Resiliency Orchestration Works? 22
Discovery 23

Discovery Overview 23
Sites Overview 23
Home Page 24
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Subsystems Overview 25
Groups Overview 25
Recovery Group 26
Application Group 26
Status of a Group 27
Execution Mode 27
Execution Status 27
Recovery Status 29
Continuity Operations on a Group 30
Business Continuity Modes 31

Business Continuity States 32
About RPO, RTO 34
Recovery Point Objective 34
Recovery Time Objective 34
Compute Current App RPO 34
Compute current Data RPO 35
Compute current RTO and display the desired RTO and estimated RTO values 35
Pre- requisites 38
Additional Support 38
Starting and Stopping IBM Resiliency Orchestration Server
Services 39

On Server Restart 39
Starting IBM Resiliency Orchestration Agents 40

Starting Agents on the UNIX Server 40
Stopping IBM Resiliency Orchestration Agents on Window Server 41
Stopping Agents on the UNIX Server 41
Verifying IBM Resiliency Orchestration Agents 43

Verifying Agents on Windows Server 43
Verifying Agents on UNIX Server 43
Verifying the processes of Agents on UNIX Server 44
Refreshing Details 44
Configuration 47

Configuring IBM Resiliency Orchestration 47
Tomcat Configuration 47
Steps to enable HTTPS in tomcat: 47
Steps to disable HTTP in tomcat 48
Steps to change the port numbers 8080 or 8443 to different ones 48
Steps to Enable Compression in Tomcat Server 49
Tomcats logs rotation 50
Agent Configuration 50
Site Controller 50
Adding Site Controller to Resiliency Orchestration Server 52
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Agentless 52
Prerequisites 53
Enabling SSH on Unix/Linux subsystem 53
Enabling PowerShell on Windows subsystem 53
Enabling WMI on Windows subsystem (High level) 53
Enabling WMI on Windows subsystem (Detailed information) 54
Change / Replace Ownership 56
Open Custom Range of ports WMI/ RPC: 57
Range configuration for WMI/RPC 57
Configuring WAN Agent 64
User Management 66

Setting up Users 66
Basic User Role management 66
Modifying Users 69
Deleting Users 69
Setting System Options for Users 70
Editing User Preferences 71
Configuring LDAP 71
Creating pre-packaged roles for IBM Resiliency Orchestration 73
Creating custom roles for IBM Resiliency Orchestration 73
Configuring AD 74
Division of the User Management System 78
Known Limitations 81
Listing Configured Users 81
User Reports 83
Appendix 84
Configuring Notifications 86
Email Notification 87
SMS Notification 87
SNMP Notification 87
Notification List 88
Deleting Notification List 89
Configuring SNMP Trap Forwarder 89
Configuring Email Server 90
Configuring Email Templates 91
Business Process Integration 92
Listing Business Process Schedules 93
Adding Business Process 93
Configuring Business Process 94
Custom Event 94
Importing custom event 95
Exporting custom event script 95
Importing / Exporting custom event policy workflow 95
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Scheduling 96
Managing Business Process 96
Deleting Business Process 97
Continuity Workflows 98
Working with Actions 100
Creating new workflow 112
Deleting Workflow 113
Importing or Exporting a Workflow 113
Scheduling Business Process Workflow / Drills 115
Automatic Retry on Failure 117
Single Stepping Actions in Workflows 118
Synchronizing Workflow with RPO/RTO 119
Publish/ Save as a Draft 119
Previewing Workflow 120
Workflow Version History/ Rollback 120
Workflow Key Value List 121
Workflow Configuration Limitations 123
Configuring Approver List 124
Low Touch Oracle DG 124
Supported Features 124
Overview 125
Prerequisites 125
Low Touch Wizard - Primary Server 126
Primary Database 128
AWS Information 130
Low Touch Execution workflow 133
Configuration 136
Configuring RPO/ RTO 136
Configuring Notification Regarding Events 139
Configuring Event Policy 140
Adding Polar Event Script 142
Site Ticker 143
Show Expired Ticker 144
Add Site Ticker 144
Vault Framework 145
Introduction 145
Configuring Vault 147
Vault Agent 157
Vault Features 158
Subsystems IBM Supports 162
Dashboards 163
DR Operational Dashboard 163
Application Summary 164
Application Details 166
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Dashboard Snapshot 167
DR Manager Dashboard 167
Application Summary 168
Application Details 171
Manage 172

Filters 172
Group Health 173
Sites 173
Application Group 176
AG Listing 178
AG Details 178
Relationship 179
Recovery Group 180
Recovery Group 180
RG Listing 181
RG Details 182
Relationship in RG 183
Continuity Workflows 184
Executing Workflows 185
Executing Workflow 185
Health Monitoring 188
Viewing Group Relationship 188
RPO and RTO Monitoring 188
Monitoring Replication 189
Viewing Recovery Group Replication Details 190
Monitor 193

Filters 193
Group Health 194
Sites 195
Application Group 196
Application Group 196
AG Listing 200
AG Details 200
Relationship 201
Recovery Group 202
Recovery Group 202
RG Listing 203
RG Details 204
Relationship in RG 204
Continuity Workflows 205
Executing Workflows 207
Executing Workflow 207
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Health Monitoring 209
Viewing Group Relationship 209
RPO and RTO Monitoring 211
Continuity Monitoring Overview 212
Monitoring Replication 212
Viewing Recovery Group Replication Details 213
Events 214

Event Alarm 214
View Events 215
Viewing Group Events 217
Filtering Events 218
Complete Listing of Events 219
Viewing Sequence of Events 223
System Events 224
Monitoring Events 225
Monitoring Users and Passwords for raised Events 225
Recovery Automation 228

Managing Groups 228
Group Maintenance - Working with Different Modes of Group 228
Business Continuity Operations 232
Start and Stop Replication 247
Managing Events 251
Drills 258

Configuring Drills 259
Switchover 259
Switchback 261
Custom Drills 261
IntegrityCheck Test Place holder 263
Listing Drill Schedules 263
Executing Drills 263
Drills State 266
Drill Listing 268
Tracking Drills 268
Changing Drills Mode 269
Drills Interfering with BCO 269
Identifying Group under Unrestricted Test Mode 270
Effect of Drills on Group Status 270
Viewing Drills 270
Viewing Drills for a Group 270
Viewing automation status 271
Viewing Drills History Report 272
Viewing Workflow Calendar 272
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Viewing Recent Execution Drills Status 273
Drills Management 274
Scheduled 275
Viewing Scheduled 275
Scheduling Workflows 275
Executing 276
Executing 276
Summary 278
Viewing Summary 278
Select Workflow 279
Viewing workflow details 279
Editing Workflows 281
Viewing Published workflow by logged in user 281
Viewing Published workflow by logged in user 281
Working with Workflow Manager 283

Working with Workflow Manager 283
Workflow Execution Page 283
Resuming workflow after IBM Server failure 284
Dealing with Failures of Workflow Execution 285
Stopping Workflows 286
Approving/Rejecting a workflow before execution 288
Approving a workflow 288
Rejecting a workflow 288
DryRun 288
Mode 289
Process 289
Workflow Enhancements 289
Confirmation of Workflow Execution 289
Dryrun Execution 290
Nested Workflow (Navigation to Workflow within a Workflow) 290
View Workflows 290
Workflows Visual Distinction 291
Stopping/Aborting Parent Workflows 291
Propagation of Nested Workflow Status 291
Parent Workflow Summary Counts 291
Glimpse of Nested Workflows 291
Validating and Fortifying Nested Workflows 291
Validation 293

View Rules 293
Listing Validation Rules 293
Tasks 293
Listing Tasks 293
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Creating Tasks 295
Modifying Tasks 296
Deleting Tasks 296
Executing Tasks 297
Viewing Execution History 297
Reports 300

Reports Overview 300
You can generate the following reports: 300
Viewing Reports 301
Printing Reports 312
Internet Explorer: 313
Firefox: 313
Exporting a Report 313
Customizing Reports 314
Group Summary Report 314
Test Summary Report 317
To generate Test Summary Report: 317
Custom Report Framework 320
Data Capturing Module to Generate Custom Reports 320
Advanced Reports Module 329
Audit Logging 336
Viewing Audit Log Report 338
Scheduling Audit Log Report 339
Listing Scheduled Audit Log Reports 341
Modifying Audit Log Report Schedule 341
Deleting Audit Log Report Schedule 343
Discovery 344

Sites 344
Adding Organization 344
Adding Sites 345
Modifying Sites 347
Deleting Site 348
Site Listing 348
Subsystem 349
Auto Discovery 350
Credentials 350
Create New Credential Using SSH 351
Agent Upgrade 353
Prerequisites 354
Component & WAN 357
Datasets 363
Protection Schemes 384
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