Runbook Robot
Introduction
Runbook Robot is a feature in Eyeglass that automates disaster recovery (DR) testing by simulating failover and failback between cluster pairs. It reduces the need for manual testing, improves confidence in DR readiness, and ensures daily validation of critical components like SyncIQ, exports, quotas, and SmartConnect alias handling.
This section provides guidance for configuring Runbook Robot in basic or advanced modes, customizing failover behavior, and supporting more complex environments such as hub-and-spoke or multi-site replication topologies.
Runbook Robot Introduction
Learn how the Eyeglass Runbook Robot helps automate Disaster Recovery (DR) testing and ensures your environment remains failover-ready. This guide introduces the Robot’s core functionality, daily validation checks, and supported job types, including basic and advanced DR configurations.
Runbook Robot Overview
The Runbook Robot automates daily Disaster Recovery (DR) validations by simulating failover and failback operations between cluster pairs. This helps eliminate manual testing, reduces risk, and ensures continuous DR readiness without requiring downtime.
Basic DR Configuration
Basic DR Configuration uses a specially named SyncIQ policy to enable automated failover and failback testing with minimal setup. This option is ideal for non-production validation of DR readiness and can be enabled quickly without modifying existing Access Zones or production data.
Advanced DR Configuration
Advanced DR Configuration simulates full Access Zone failover and failback operations. This option exercises the complete Eyeglass failover automation pipeline, including SmartConnect zone aliasing, SPN handling, quota replication, and configuration sync validation. It requires more setup than the basic configuration, but provides the highest level of confidence for DR readiness in production-like environments.
Advanced Settings
Advanced settings extend Runbook Robot functionality for complex topologies, including multi-site replication and multiple cluster pairs. This section also covers how to manually control export creation, customize run schedules, and configure SmartConnect alias mapping for flexible DR automation.