System and method to proactively and intelligently schedule disaster recovery (dr) drill(s)/test(s) in computing system environment

A method for proactively and intelligently scheduling Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s) for application, a set of applications or entire site in a computing system environment, the method comprising the steps of:

• (a) prompting Drill Advisor Module to fetch a list of applications from Drill Tracker Module;
• (b) prompting the Drill Advisor Module to fetch a list of next schedule(s) for Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s) from the Drill Tracker Module;
• (c) prompting the Drill Advisor Module to fetch and read the user policy set from the Drill Tracker Module;
• (d) prompting the Dill advisor to check if the next schedule(s) for Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s) obtained at step (b) satisfies said user policy set for Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s) obtained at step (c);
• (e) prompting the Drill Advisor Module to accumulate the changes since the last/previous Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s) to check if next schedule(s) for Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s) satisfies the user policy set as per step (d);
• (f) prompting the Drill Advisor Module to assign pre-defined severity of “CRITICAL” and “WARNING” to all the changes accumulated at step (e) after comparing the weight/value of said changes with said pre-defined severity of “CRITICAL” and “WARNING”;
• (g) prompting the Drill Advisor Module to check if the changes at step (f) have severity level “CRITICAL”;
• (h) prompting the Drill Advisor Module to reschedule the Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s) if the severity level checked at step (g) is “CRITICAL”;
• (i) prompting the Drill Advisor Module to update the Drill Tracker Module with the new allotted schedule of Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s) obtained at step (h);
• (j) prompting the Drill Advisor Module to check each change obtained at step (e) which are not “CRITICAL”;
• (k) prompting the Drill Advisor Module to compare the summed weight/value of each change obtained at step (j) with a pre-determined value to re-schedule the Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s);
• (l) prompting the Drill Advisor Module to go to step (h) followed by step (i) if the summed weight/value of each change checked at step (k) exceeds said pre-determined value;
• (m) prompting the Drill Advisor Module not to re-schedule the Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s) if the value of summed weight of each change checked at step (k) does not exceed said pre-determined value.

The method for proactively and intelligently scheduling Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s), further comprising the steps of:

• (n) prompting the Dill Advisor to check the user policy set defining a drill window/slot for re-scheduling the DR drill/test if the next schedule(s) for Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s) does not satisfy the user policy set;
• (o) prompting the Drill Advisor Module to pick the next window/slot for re-scheduling the Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s) available in the user policy set;
• (p) prompting the Drill Advisor Module to check and find the next window/slot with the least server load in the system if the user policy set at step (n) does not define a window/slot for re-scheduling the Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s);
• (q) prompting the Drill Advisor Module to update the Drill Tracker Module with the new allotted schedule of Disaster Recovery (DR) drill(s)/test(s) obtained at step (o) or (p).