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Running a fire drill

The Run fire drill task enables you to do the following:

• Verify that replication for an application is working correctly
• Verify that a secondary disaster recovery (DR) application service group can be brought online successfully.

Three cluster objects play a role in a fire drill:

You can run a fire drill from the Cluster Management Console. The Cluster Management Console supports fire drills in multi-cluster mode only.

Before you run a fire drill, you must do the following:

• Configure the local (primary) and remote (secondary) global groups
• Set up the replication for the storage at the primary and secondary sites
• Configure the fire drill group using the FDSETUP command line wizard.

See the Veritas Cluster Server Implementation Guide for information on configuring fire drills.

 To run a fire drill from the Cluster Management Console

1. On the navigation bar, click Home.
2. On the secondary tab bar, click Clusters.
3. In the Home:Clusters view, in the Clusters Listing table, click the name of the primary global cluster.
4. On the secondary tab bar, click Groups.
5. In the Cluster:Groups view, in the Groups Listing table, click the name of the primary global group.
6. In the Group:Summary view, in the Remote Operations task panel, click Run fire drill.

   You can view results of the fire drill in the Cluster:Groups view, the Group:Summary view, and in the Group:Fire Drill Logs view.

   See "About service group listing tables" on page 137.