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