Purpose of the Monitor Recovery function

You can use the Monitor Recovery function to watch the progress of recovery job steps, to determine whether a problem has occurred, and to check on the recovery of objects. The function helps you answer the following types of questions:

• What is happening with my recovery job steps? Are they executing as expected? What phase (such as reading logs, merging records, or rebuilding indexes) are they in?
• Did a warning or failure occur during a recovery job step? If so, which objects had failures? What were the return codes?
• Is a particular object (data set or area) included in a recovery job step? What is the status of an object?

Graphical progress bars and charts provide an intuitive, overall view of the current recovery environment. Distinctive icons that indicate problems help you recognize those problems quickly so that you can get right to work on solving them. You can select items and drill down for more information.

The Monitor Recovery function is helpful any time that you want to track a recovery. The function is especially suited to disaster recovery scenarios when a large number of recoveries are executing simultaneously. With icons to highlight problems, problems are less likely to be overlooked than they are in a traditional interface.

The graphical view of the recovery environment can help disaster recovery team members communicate with each other, with managers, and with users faster and more effectively. Moving progress bars and green status icons can reassure you that the disaster recovery process is working as it should.