Recovery alerts provide you with the real-time information about the recovery of domain controllers in your project. You can configure a recovery alert to inform you when particular domain controllers complete the recovery stage you specified in the alert settings.
For a recovery project, you can create and configure multiple alerts, each having different settings. You can also modify settings of existing alerts or delete alerts as necessary. To manage recovery alerts, click the Configure Alerts button on the toolbar of the Forest Recovery Console.
For each alert, you can select one or more domain controllers to which the alert will apply. You can configure an alert to inform you about the completion of one or more of the following recovery stages on the target domain controllers:
Table 27: Recovery stages for which you can use alerts
Recovery stage | Description |
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Prepare to restore from backup | During this stage, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition verifies that the backup files you selected for recovery are available on the target domain controllers. If necessary, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition copies the backup files that are missing. Also, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition disables Microsoft Windows Update if it is enabled on the domain controllers. |
Perform restore from backup |
During this stage, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition performs the following steps:
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Configure domain controller |
During this stage, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition performs the following steps:
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Make domain controller available |
During this stage, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition performs the following steps:
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Uninstall Active Directory Domain Services |
During this stage, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition uninstalls Active Directory using the native tools provided by Microsoft. For domain controllers running Windows Server 2008 or earlier, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition uses the Dcpromo.exe tool. For Windows Server 2012-based domain controllers, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition uses the native Windows PowerShell cmdlet Uninstall-ADDSDomainController. Also, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition disables Microsoft Windows Update if it is enabled on the domain controllers. |
Reinstall Active Directory Domain Services |
During this stage, Recovery Manager for Active Directory Disaster Recovery Edition performs the following steps:
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In this section:
To create an alert
By default, the created alert informs you when all specified domain controllers complete the selected recovery stage, regardless of whether or not the stage succeeded. To modify this behavior, complete the next steps.
After you start the recovery or verify settings operation on a recovery project, you can monitor active alerts in
the project.
The number of currently active alerts is displayed next to the Active alerts link in the Project Summary area of the Forest Recovery Console. You can click the Active alerts link to display a list of active alerts and view the details for each active alert.
To view the details of an active alert
For an existing alert, you can modify such settings as alert name, the recovery stage the alert informs you about, the list of domain controllers to which the alert applies, and the conditions when the alert becomes active.
To modify an alert
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