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Readiness Checks with DR Dashboard

Introduction​

The Disaster Recovery (DR) Dashboard provides a centralized interface for monitoring the readiness of failover objects in your Superna environment. It enables administrators to assess whether their configured resources are properly aligned for a successful failover event.

This section explains how to interpret the dashboard’s visual indicators, check the status of individual failover objects, and take corrective action when issues are detected. The goal is to help you maintain a continuous state of operational readiness, ensuring that your failover workflows are validated and actionable when needed.

Check Readiness​

In this section, we’ll walk you through how to monitor your system's readiness for a failover.

Prerequisites:
None

Steps:

  1. Access the DR Dashboard: Start by selecting DR Dashboard from the Eyeglass dashboard.

  2. Review Available Failover Objects: The left-hand menu in the DR Dashboard window will display readiness information only for those failover objects that are available from your configured inventory. For example, if you’ve configured a PowerScale OneFS cluster, you will see options like Access Zone, IP Pool, DFS, and Policy Readiness in the navigation menu.

  3. Select the Relevant Failover Object: Choose the failover object that is relevant to your use case from the available options in the left-hand menu.

    Select Failover Object

  4. When monitoring the readiness of your failover objects, pay special attention to the DR Failover Status column in the table. This column is crucial for maintaining the readiness of your failover objects. Ideally, every important failover object should have a status other than ERROR.

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    The DR Failover Status is updated once every 24 hours, usually around midnight local time. If you suspect anything has changed in your readiness status since the last update, it's recommended to select the specific failover object and click Run Readiness in the bottom right to recheck the status.

    The possible statuses include:

    • OK: Indicates the related failover object is ready for failover.

    • ERROR: Indicates the related failover object has a blocking error that will prevent failover.

      • To investigate the blocking error:
        • Click on ERROR in the DR Failover Status column.
        • In the following window, expand the folder(s) marked with ERROR and then click the value(s) that appear below.
        • This will display the error details in the Additional Status Information section at the bottom of the window.

    • WARNING: Indicates the related failover object has an issue that could negatively impact failover, but it is not blocking.

      • To investigate the warning:
        • Click on WARNING in the DR Failover Status column.
        • In the following window, expand the folder(s) marked with WARNING and then click the value(s) that appear below.
        • This will display the warning details in the Additional Status Information section at the bottom of the window.

    • FAILED OVER: Indicates the related failover object is no longer the active cluster and is not available for failover.

    • INFO: Indicates the related failover object has a missing configuration that does not negatively impact failover.

    • DISABLED: Indicates the related failover object has been manually disabled.

      • To enable a disabled failover object:
        • Navigate to the Jobs icon on the Eyeglass dashboard.
        • In the Job Definitions section of the Jobs window, find your related failover object and click on the respective row.
        • Click Select a Bulk Action at the bottom right of the Jobs window and then choose Enable/Disable from the menu.
        • You should now be able to navigate back to the DR Dashboard to review the refreshed status of the related failover object.