Designing Disaster Tolerant High Availability Clusters, 10th Edition, March 2003 (B7660-90013)

Building a Continental Cluster
Building the ContinentalClusters Configuration
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Documenting the Recovery Procedure
Once everything is configured and the ContinentalClusters monitor is
running, you must define your recovery procedure and train the
administrators and operators at both sites. The checklist in Figure 5-9 is
an example of how you might document the recovery procedure.
Figure 5-9 Recovery Checklist
Identify the level of alert that the monitoring site received.
Contact the monitored site by phone or beeper to rule out the following:
WAN networking failure, primary cluster and
packages are still fine.
Cluster and/or package have come back up
but
UP notification not yet received by recovery site.
Get authorization from the monitored site using one of the following:
Cluster Alarm
Cluster Alert
Authorization received:
Authorized person contacted:
Admin 1
Director 1
Voice mail
Human-to-human voice authorization
Notify the monitored site of successful recovery using one of the following:
Confirmation received:
Authorized person contacted:
Admin 1
Director 1
Voice mail
Human-to-human voice confirmation