Recovery Manager for AD Disaster Recovery Edition 10.3.2 - User Guide

Project summary

This area provides some basic information about the current recovery project, such as the Active® Directory forest name and the number of domains and domain controllers in the forest. For a diagram that illustrates the Forest Recovery Console elements, see Forest Recovery Console.

When you are running a recovery or verify settings operation, the Project Summary area provides the following elements:

• Active alerts - Displays the number of active recovery alerts in the recovery project. Click this link to manage active alerts and view their details. For more information, see Using recovery alerts.

List of domain controllers

This area provides a list of all domain controllers in the current recovery project along with some basic information about each domain controller, such as domain controller name, domain, site, FSMO roles, specified recovery method, recovery pause status, and currently selected backup (if any) and its age.

You can use the list of domain controllers to perform a number of commands on the domain controllers in the recovery project.

For a diagram that illustrates the Forest Recovery Console elements, see Forest Recovery Console.

In this section:

• Filtering the list of domain controllers

• Connecting to a domain controller via RDP

Filtering the list of domain controllers

To filter domain controllers in the list

1. In the list of domain controllers, point to the heading of the column by which you want to filter the domain controllers.

2. Click the down arrow next to the column heading, and specify you filter criteria.

Connecting to a domain controller via RDP

To connect to a domain controller via RDP

1. In the list of domain controllers, right-click the domain controller you want to connect to.

2. Click Connect via RDP on the shortcut menu.