Recovery Manager for AD Disaster Recovery Edition 10.3.1 - User Guide

Viewing forest recovery progress

While performing a forest recovery operation, you can use the Forest Recovery Console to monitor the recovery progress of each domain controller in the project.

To view the recovery progress for a domain controller

1. In the Forest Recovery Console, use the list of domain controllers to select the domain controller whose recovery progress you want to view.

2. Open the Progress tab to view the recovery operation progress.

Viewing recovery plan

Before you start recovering your Active Directory® forest, you can generate and view a recovery plan for the recovery project. The recovery plan reflects the settings specified in your recovery project. For example, you can generate and view the recovery plan after making some changes to the recovery project settings to identify whether these changes will have the effect you want.

Recovery project plan shows the details of each Active Directory® domain and site included in your recovery project, such as the total number of domain controllers, the number of domain controllers to be recovered, and the number of domain controllers to be removed from Active Directory® during the recovery.

For each domain controller, the recovery plan shows the following:

• Currently selected recovery method.

• DNS servers used by the domain controller before the recovery.

• Current FSMO roles.

• Whether or not the domain controller to be recovered is a global catalog server.

• Applicable recovery alerts and pauses.

To view recovery plan

1. Start the Forest Recovery Console.

2. On the menu bar, click View | Recovery Plan.

To view detailed information about a particular recovery method (that is, the recovery stages and steps the related domain controllers will go through), click the name of that method.

You can use the toolbar in the report window to print or export the recovery plan to a preferred format.

Viewing a report about forest recovery or verify settings operation

Upon the completion of a forest recovery or verify settings operation, you can view a report on that operation.

To view a report

• After the restore process is completed, in Forest Recovery Console, click the View Recovery Report option in the Post-Recovery Actions window, or on the menu bar, click View | Report….

You can use the toolbar in the report window to print or export the report to a preferred format, click View | Export Results….

Handling failed domain controllers

It is recommended that you investigate the failure reason for each domain controller whose recovery has failed. For example, make sure the failed domain controller is connected to the network and the recovery settings specified for that domain controller are correct.

In some cases, the Forest Recovery Console may prompt you to perform a certain action to resolve the issue encountered during the domain controllers recovery. If you are not prompted for action, you can perform the next steps.

To select an action for a failed domain controller

1. In the List of Domain Controllers area, right-click the failed domain controller.

2. Select one of the following actions from the shortcut menu:

Actions applicable to failed domain controllers