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Product Documentation

Last Published: 2019-11-21

Product(s): Resiliency Platform & CloudMobility (3.4)

About risks

The objective of the Risk Insight feature is to notify you about the vulnerabilities that might impact the recoverability or continuity of your protected assets.

Risk Insight detects the changes to the state and configuration of your protected assets. It identifies if there is a risk to the recoverability or continuity of your protected assets. A periodic or schedule scan will generate the risk on the Resiliency Platform components. A periodic scan of every 30 minutes is run by the scheduler.

Veritas Resiliency Platform also enables you to set up the replication lag threshold or service level threshold. Risk insight alerts you when the replication lags beyond the threshold that you specified.

Risk insight generates two types of reports:

Current risk reports: Provides the summary and detail information about all the current risks in your data center.
Historical risk reports: Provides a summary and a detailed analysis of information about the risks in your environment during the specified period.

These reports help you take actions to prevent such risks. The historical risk data is purged after a period of two years.

The risks covered by risk insight can be classified into three main categories:

Table: Risk types

Risk category	Description
Recoverability	Risks that may impact the ability to recover and run the application on the recovery site.
Continuity	Risks that may impact the ability to run your applications without disruption either on your production site or on your recovery site.
SLA	Risks that may impact the ability to fulfill the service level agreements (SLA) for your applications.

On the basis of criticality, the risks can be classified into two types:

Table: Risk types

Risk type	Description
Error	A risk that disrupts any stated goals of the product. An error must be fixed to make the product work as expected.
Warning	A risk that jeopardizes any stated goals of the product. A warning alerts you about a potential problem in your environment.

From 3.2 onwards, you can probe and suppress a risk based on which component of Resiliency Platform the risk has occurred.

Probing a risk is way of evaluating a risk to check whether the risk is eliminated or still exists at the Resiliency Platform component. You cannot probe all the risks in the risk view. The risks which cannot be probed have details about the risk resolution. You can perform the given steps and probe the risk again. You have to wait for some time the to see the apply the changes.

For example, an IMS is disconnected due to network issues. The risk is then raised by the Resiliency Platform. When you probe this risk, details of this risk display what steps can be done to resolve this risk. There are some risks which cannot be probed. For those risks, you have to fix the risk and the probe it accordingly.

When you probe a risk, the details panel also displays a link to the proposed resolution for the risk. On clicking the link, the risk pop up is closed and you are redirected to the respective resolution page.

You can avoid a risk using suppress option on the risk view. You can suppress a risk for specific time; for few minutes or hours but cannot suppress a risk for indefinite period. If a risk is active after the suppress period is over, then it will appear under the Active Risks view. You can probe that risk or you can again suppress it for some time. Suppress option is available for all the risk in the Resiliency Platform. Suppressed risks will be seen in Risk view > Suppressed Risks.

Note:

Risks are not generated for resiliency groups that are in maintenance mode. If a risk was raised before the resiliency group was placed in maintenance mode and that risk persists after exiting the mode, then the risk is shown.

See Managing risks.

More Information

Displaying risk information

Predefined risks in Resiliency Platform

Viewing the current risk report

Viewing the historical risk report