Managing the Recovery Steps of an Executed BCP
Consulting the Recovery Steps of an Exercise
To consult the details of recovery steps of an exercise:
1. In the navigation menu, select Business Continuity > Exercises.
2. Open the exercise properties.
3. Select the Tested Plans page.
Tested plans are exercise instances.To filter recovery steps by Business Continuity Plan:
In the Tested Plans page, select the BCP of interest from the drop-down list.Adding Recovery Steps to an Exercise
You can modify the BCPs that are used as the basis for the exercise and add recovery steps.
To add recovery steps:
1. See Accessing Exercises.
2. Open an exercise properties and select the Tested Plans page.
3. (optional) Select the plan of interest from the drop-down list.
4. In the Recovery Step section, click New.
A recovery step within the framework of an exercise is called by default a “BCP step test”.Managing Recovery Step Life Cycle
Starting a recovery step
To start a recovery step:
1. Open an exercise properties and select the Tested Plans page.
2. Set the status of the BCP recovery step to “Ongoing”.
The start date is initialized with today's date. You can modify this date.
The “ongoing” status means that the recovery step is scheduled. The start date indicates the actual launch date of the recovery step.Completing a recovery step
To indicate that a BCP recovery step is completed:
Set its status to “Completed”.The end date is initialized with today's date.