Mainframe Cyber Resiliency User Guide

Version: 3.5.x
Audience: anonymous
Part Number: MK-91HMCR001-11

Overview
Overview of Mainframe Cyber Resiliency
Solution life cycle
NIST Cybersecurity Framework
System architecture
User roles and responsibilities
Required roles and permissions
Backup scheduling management
Two-‍User Approval
Overview of cluster configuration
Availability of failover clustering
Configuration of Windows Server Failover Clustering role
Limitation on backup schedule with cluster configuration
Prerequisites of cluster configuration
Switching backup source
Recovery control
Background copy control
Foreground copy control
Preparing to restart backup
Backup, verification and recovery operations
Normal phase
Scheduling settings
Scheduling a new backup and changing a scheduled recurring backup
Suspending a scheduled recurring backup
Pausing a scheduled backup for configuration change
On-‍demand backup
Monitoring and viewing
Monitoring an occurrence of HyperSwap
Viewing the backup list
Monitoring pool capacity
Monitoring backup result of open server
Monitoring backup result of mainframe server
Monitoring pair status of mirror unit of export volumes
Changing configuration
Changing the backup retention period
Verification phase
Verifying backed-‍up data
Recovery phase
Restoring data using background copy control
Restoring data using foreground copy control
Preparing to restart backup
Troubleshooting a data recovery error
Restoring data from the original backup in Fortress
Restore from data already mapped for the verification phase
Design and implementation phase
Design and implementation for backup
Adding new mainframe volumes as a backup target
Deleting mainframe volumes from the backup target
Expanding the retention period
Extending the backup cycle duration
Shortening the backup cycle duration
Switching mainframe volumes for backup source
Deleting mainframe volumes from the recovery target
Verifying the configuration
Change the local time of backup server
Enabling Two-‍User Approval flow
Examples of backup, verification and recovery operations
Example configurations for Mainframe Cyber Resiliency and an example process for backup, verification, and recovery operations
Examples of backup operations
Examples of backup operations for mainframe server
Examples of backup operations for open server
Examples of verification operations
Preparing mainframe server for verification
Disconnect Universal Volume Manager volumes from verification mainframe server
Mount backed-‍up data using open server
Reconnect Universal Volume Manager volumes to verification mainframe server
Verifying backed-‍up data
Verification with another backed-‍up data
Examples of recovery operations
Recovering backed-‍up data using background copy control
Recovering noncore group of background copy control
Recovering backed-‍up data using foreground copy control
Deleting normal ShadowImage for Mainframe for backup
Making new ShadowImage for Mainframe for backup
Examples of changing recurring backup for daylight saving time
Examples of changing recurring backup start date for daylight saving time
Examples of changing recurring backup end date for daylight saving time
Command and file reference
Backup REXX exec, verification REXX execs, and restore script for mainframe server
Backup REXX exec
Verification REXX execs
Disconnect Universal Volume Manager REXX exec for mainframe server
Reconnect Universal Volume Manager REXX exec for mainframe server
External volume definition data set (YKDDXDEV) description format
Restore script
Monitoring of HyperSwap REXX exec
Configuration information data set (YKDDCONF) description format
Editing the open server settings for backup
Editing the CR Scripts settings
Overview of cr_config.psd1 file
Common properties
Properties for root folder for mount point
Properties for Ops Center API Configuration Manager
Properties for log file
Properties for export volumes
Properties for policy groups
Properties for clustering
Creating the management table configuration file
Creating the Ops Center Automator service for backup
Properties to specify while creating a service
Backup Settings
Submitter Settings
Viewing the service ID
Testing Ops Center Automator task
Creating the scheduling setting management file
Managing the Ops Center Automator service for scheduling
Creating and submitting the scheduling service
Base Settings group properties
Recurring Backups group properties
Suspension Periods group properties
On-‍demand Backups group properties
Request for Approval group properties
Modify backup schedule after task run
Editing the MF-‍Plugin settings
Common properties (CR-Scripts-installation-folder\plugins)
Properties for File Conversion Utility
Properties for Ops Center Automator
Properties for policy groups (cr_plugin_mf.psd1 file)
Setting for restore
Volume configuration file
Volume configuration file properties
List of volume configuration set
Creating the Ops Center Automator service for restore
Properties for mount backup data
Properties for unmount backup data
Tips for unmounting
Confirming the contents of the approval request
Changing backup retention period
Creating the Ops Center Automator service for backup retention change
Operation Settings properties
Request for Approval properties
Notes on submitting the change backup retention service
Managing Ops Center Automator services and tasks
Importing the service templates
Viewing Ops Center Automator task details
Backup service
Verify and restore service
Scheduling service
Change backup retention period service
Creating a similar task request
Invoking Windows Task Scheduler
Enabling the task scheduler history
Confirming results of the scheduled task
Upgrading the Ops Center Automator service template and CR Scripts
Upgrading Ops Center Automator service template
Editing the Ops Center Automator service
Replace the CR Scripts
CR Scripts reference
Initialize-‍OTMDataset command
Troubleshooting
Workflow for isolating problems
Troubleshooting workflow for mainframe server
Troubleshooting workflow for backup errors on the mainframe server
Troubleshooting workflow for verification errors on the mainframe server
Troubleshooting workflow for recovery errors on the mainframe server
Troubleshooting workflow for recovery errors using BCM Monitor
Checking the results of recovery using background copy control or foreground copy control
Troubleshooting workflow for restore script errors on the mainframe server
Troubleshooting workflow for open server
Troubleshooting schedule task settings
Troubleshooting flow for scheduling
Troubleshooting scheduling Automator service task issue
Recovery method for scheduling Automator service
Troubleshooting schedule task run (overview)
Confirming the schedule settings
Check results for schedule task run
Troubleshooting schedule task run
Troubleshooting open backup task
Initialize FXotm data set
Get-‍WinEvent result with success return code
Get-‍WinEvent result with error return code
plugins_trace.log error message
Troubleshooting schedule suspension
Confirming schedule suspension
Troubleshooting the suspension period settings task
Troubleshooting flow for backup
Troubleshooting on cluster configuration
Failure of service task
Failure of cluster failover
Run Get-‍ClusterLog PowerShell command
Fix CRSCRIPTS_PATH environment variable
Failure during backup Automator service
Troubleshooting backup Automator service task issues
Recovery method for backup Automator service
Recovery method for backup main workflow
Rollback of the backed-up data
Expire undeleted backup data and update management tables
Backup management table volume data
Recovery method for the management table
Check the status of all target pairs
Failure during verify and restore of Automator service
Troubleshooting verify and restore Automator task issue
Recovery method for verify and restore Automator service
Failure during change backup retention Automator service
Troubleshooting change backup retention Automator task issue
Recovery method for change backup retention Automator service
Recovery method for change retention workflow
Recovery method for backup management table volume workflow
Resubmit the change backup retention service for recovery
Unlock the unexpectedly retained mirror unit number
Unlock the retained management table lock
Troubleshooting workflow for storage
Error codes and error messages
Mainframe server error codes and actions
z/OS error messages and actions
Service information messages
I/O error messages
Job abnormal end (user completion codes)
Backup, verification and recovery server error messages
Mainframe server message output format
Mainframe component error messages
Backup job is not stopped after HyperSwap is detected
Job does not run as a started task
Verify data time exceeds the specified backup time
Data is not reflected in the volume for verify during verification
Output destinations for Business Continuity Manager error messages
Business Continuity Manager error messages
BCM Monitor error messages
Business Continuity Manager error codes
Universal Volume Manager error codes
Return codes of Universal Volume Manager operation commands
YKDEXDEV command return codes
YKREXDEV command return codes
YKQEXDEV command return codes
Open server error codes and actions
Open server message output format
Ops Center Automator error messages
Create backup service error messages
Verify and restore service error messages
Scheduling service error messages
Change backup retention service error messages
Ops Center Automator general error messages
Ops Center API Configuration Manager error messages
CR Scripts and MF-‍Plugin error messages
Cross-OS File Exchange error codes
File Access Library (FAL) error codes
File Conversion Utility (FCU) error codes
Microsoft system error codes
Abnormal program termination errors
Storage error codes and actions
Service information message reference codes
Sense bytes
Collecting maintenance information
Collecting maintenance information of mainframe server
Collecting maintenance information of open server
Collecting information of Ops Center API Configuration Manager
Collecting information of Ops Center Automator
Collecting information of Command Control Interface
Collecting information of Cross-OS File Exchange
Collecting information of CR Scripts and MF-‍Plugin
Collecting information of management files
Collecting information of Windows Task Scheduler and events
Collecting disk information
Collecting maintenance information of storage
Collecting service information messages and sense bytes
Collecting pool information
Collecting performance data
Allowed characters for properties
Allowed characters
Notes on managing VSP One B20
About the error messages output while the ESM is being switched

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