Instead of using the Scheduler, you can manually perform AR testing.
- On the Manager, verify that the AR scenario is running.
- To start the AR testing, on the Scenario pane select the Replica you want to test. Then, click the Replica Integrity Testing button on the Standard toolbar, or right-click the Replica and select Replica Integrity Testing from the pop-up menu.
The Replica Integrity Testing for Assured Recovery dialog opens.
In this dialog, the configuration you set for the AR test is displayed.
- To start the manual AR test using the existing configuration, select the Manual testing check box. Once this check box is selected, the dialog changes to reflect only the actions that will be performed in a manual mode.
Notes:
- To change the test configuration before running the test, click Cancel and refer to Setting Assured Recovery Properties.
- To automatically perform the AR test, clear the Manual testing check box, click OK and refer to Perform Assured Recovery Test Automatically.
- Click OK to close the dialog and start the manual testing.
- If the Start DB property is set to On, or a user-defined script is set to replace it, these actions are performed and then the test is suspend.
- If no action is set to take place at this step, the replication and test are suspended at this stage.
- From this stage, the only automatic action that Arcserve RHA performs, unless other actions are configured as Automatic, is suspension of updates on the Replica.
- Once the replication is suspended, the following message appears in the Event pane: Replica is ready for Manual Integrity Testing.
Now, you can start performing any test you want directly on the Replica host, including making changes to the database. Note that these changes will not be saved once the AR test is finished, due to the rewind process.
Important! Do not restart the tested Replica at this stage. If you do, all the changes that accumulated on the spool will be lost.
- After you finished testing the Replica host, click again the Replica Integrity Testing button to resume replication.
Important! If you do not click the Replica Integrity Testing button a second time at the end of the test, changes will continue to spool up on the Replica host. Eventually, the spool on the Replica host overflows and the scenario is stopped.
A confirmation message opens.
- Click Yes to stop the AR test. If other steps and actions were configured in the AR test, such as stopping the database services, they will be performed before the test will be declared as finished. When the test is considered finished, the replication will be resumed automatically.
- After the test is finished, the Replica is automatically restored to precisely the same state it was when the replication was suspended. Then, the changes that were accumulated in the spool are applied, and the replication is resumed and continues normally.
- By default, once AR test is performed, an Assured Recovery Report is generated.
