How Does ADR Work?
From design to run-time, ADR provides the tools to develop and execute recovery solutions that are faster, smarter, easier, and simpler to maintain and administer. Whereas competing products are limited to workflow design or run-time monitoring, ADR is an end-to-end solution that guides you through recovery workflow design, testing, deployment, and production monitoring.
Workflow Design
- Inventory and document using all existing scripted, manual, and ad-hoc procedures in the Design Studio.
- Select the appropriate packaged recovery models for each application, site, and/or component and edit in Design Studio to customize to and integrate with existing processes.
- Select and edit infrastructure Adapters in Design Studio to integrate the particular server, network, storage, virtualization, and management vendor products in your environment
- Unique to Enigmatec, the Service Organizer is a hierarchical relationship model that allows you to graphically layout your systems, workflows, and crucially the relationships and dependencies between systems and workflows
- Embedded service level objectives (SLOs) for each workflow/component, such as recovery time, recovery point, state, or other available metric. Thresholds (warning and critical) can be set against a service level objective to trigger the automatic execution of a workflow, including prompting for external user input. i.e. “Condition ‘X,Y,Z’ detected. Do you want to failover?”
- Model the failover/failback approval scheme. Multiple approval schemes can be represented in a hierarchical organizational management structure. Automatic notifications via email can be defined
See how to model, maintain, and deploy complex recovery processes and service level objectives (SLOs) with ADR’s Service Organizer, and how the ADR workflow designer workbench uses a familiar drag and drop interface that allows rapid modeling of existing processes and procedures, by clicking on the following:
Modeling an SLO using ADR.
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Defining a Workflow in ADR.
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Testing
- Run the simulator in Design Studio to test and refine workflows
- Modify and reorganize workflows in Service Organizer based on testing results
- Easily apply modified workflows to different applications or components using the Service Organizer hierarchy tree
Deployment
- Deploy tested workflows from Design Studio into the EMS automation platform
- All infrastructure elements are automatically upgraded to the most current workflows
- New infrastructure that meets the new service organization will automatically come under management. Likewise any infrastructure that no longer fits the service organization will automatically be dropped from management
Monitoring
- At run-time, EMS monitors all service level objectives (SLOs) and displays real-time performance summary and detail in the Operations Dashboard
- Operations Dashboard also allows for manual workflow execution, enabling real-time over-ride for enhanced control. Manual controls can be locked/released according to any approval schemes defined
- Upon the detection of a failover condition, ADR via defined approval schemes can send automatic email notifications to personnel seeking approval for failover
See real-time status reporting and recovery progress monitoring with the ADR Dashboard, and integration with existing incident and problem management tools for failover approval purposes, by clicking on the following:
Real-time Dashboard in ADR.
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Integration with Existing Tools in ADR.
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