Getting your system up and running in hours rather than days can mean a saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars, Frances, Gilders . . . Therefore, you must have a recovery plan in place that is efficient as well as effective. Implementing CrashAid from PAE as an integral part of your disaster recovery plan will enable you to rebuild the system with ease and efficiency after a disk failure.
CrashAid provides a comprehensive set of guidelines, instructions and pertinent data to ease your journey to full system recovery. Unlike conventional recovery commands, CrashAid tells you where you're going, what to do to get there, what tools you'll need, and how far you have left to go before full system recovery is achieved.
CrashAid is designed to prepare you for a disk crash by giving you the tools and instructions you will need to get your system up in no time. Because a speedy recovery is so important, we've designed a feature to let you know exactly where you stand in the recovery process. With this unique feature, question such as "What percent has been recovered?" will no longer be left unanswered.
Has your boss asked you, how long before we get the system up? Would it nice to inform him/her on the number of hours/minutes left in the rebuilding process!
CrashAid is the only disaster recovery product to give you the ability to run in simulation mode so you can test your ability to get through a disaster before it actually occurs. 95% of the staff at the average AS/400 installation does NOT have training in disaster recovery. CrashAid can TEACH your staff so rebuilding an AS/400 will be just like having a cup of coffee.
CrashAid is a software tool which aids the AS/400 manager in rebuilding the system after a disk failure or any other kind of disaster. CrashAid handles all of the items listed below with ease. CrashAid can work in conjunction with Librarian/438, our tape management system. However, CrashAid will work with or without any tape management system. Tape management is NOT needed for this product to function. It just sits in the background and watches you execute your saves. It is not the most exciting product during normal operations. However, the day a disaster arrives, CrashAid is ready to go to work an provide you with a smooth rebuilding process.
During a disaster recovery test at a Hot Site, a client was asked what is the one thing that you dislike the most about CrashAid? The answer amazed me, "It is very boring! CrashAid has taken all the mystery and excitement out of a disaster. I just sat and read a magazine while CrashAid did my work. It is even taking the mystery out of going to RISC."
CrashAid has effectively upgraded companies to the AS/400 RISC PowerPC platform, release V4R3, V4R2, V4R1, V3R7 and V3R6 of OS/400.
Most difficult tasks
in rebuilding a system after a disk failure:
Some of the main features listed below are:
Ability
to set priorities and restore libraries within a day of the week
sequence.
Ability to restore
all ASPs or individual ASPs when rebuilding the system.
Ability to rebuild
journals and journal receivers.
Ability to rebuild
the system configuration, which is more accurate than SAVSYS volumes.
Ability to keep
tape handling to a minimum, thus optimizing time in the rebuilding
process.
Ability to select
which SAV*s will be tracked for recovery.
Notification
of ASPs that overflow.
Notification
of journals and journal receivers that are not part of the restore
strategy.
Notification
of libraries that are missing from restore strategy.
Notification
of when the recovery strategy does not contain current SAV* volumes.
Library exposure
analysis.
Ability to customize
library exposure analysis.
Produces a printed
report after each SAV* which indicates the restore sequence in
the event of a crash.
Prompting the
QSECOFR for which volumes to load during the rebuilding process.
Existing CL
programs will interface with CrashAid.
No set up time
needed.
Restore commands
are filled out automatically.
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