RBI BCP READINESS REPORT Auto generated by Sanovi DRM
RBI BCP Readiness Report Document Version History First version 21/8/2012 Auto generated by Sanovi DRM Executive Summary As part of the regulators recommendations on maintaining BCP/DR plan, RBI recommends that the bank should submit an annual statement describing the critical applications, their RTO and banks strategy to achieve them. This report is tailor made to address these requirement and several important sections of the report are auto generated through a DR Management tool for improved information accuracy. DR Setup Description The bank has a BCP and IT DR policy that is geared to meet the recovery service levels agreed upon with the business. The bank has the following DR setup. Primary site is located at Mumbai and the DR site is located at Chennai and they are connected using a dedicated network link. The primary site in Mumbai is owned and operated by the bank while the DR site in Chennai is located at the vendor xxxx IDC premises. The available network capacity between Mumbai and Chennai is 300 Mbps, Reliance Infocomm is the primary communication service provider while Airtel is the secondary provider. The providers are configured with autofailover mode. The high level site topology and connectivity between the sites is as show in the figure 1 below. The DR solution has been designed to take care of the following: Data Integrity solution takes care to ensure that business set RPO goals are met and application level consistency is being met.
Infrastructure and Facilities the solution takes care to ensure that the various infrastructure components and facilities at the primary and DR site are available and accounted for DR. Design for testability keeping in view that the amount of downtime required for test is minimum, the steps to do DR test have been automated and the people required to do drills has been kept to a minimum. This also prepares the operational staff for outage situations. Training & awareness program the bank recognizes and has put in place training and awareness for all personnel that are part of the IT team. Application DR Readiness Detail RTGS Real Time Gross Settlement DR Solution Signature: Oracle Archive Logs with HP XP Replication Configured RPO: 1 Minute Configured RTO: 60 Minutes Mumbai Chennai Server Component [HPUX] RTGSMum_Oracle_HPUX Application Dataset [Oracle] RTGSMum_Oracle Data Protection [HPXP-CA] RTGSMum_Oracle_horcm3 Network Component RouterMum_Cisco RTGSChn_Oracle_HPUX RTGSChn_Oracle RTGSChn_Oracle_horcm3 RouterChn_Cisco RTGS is an Oracle database running in HPUX servers and protected by Oracle Archive Logs replication using HP Continuous Access for XP storage replication. The configured RPO for this application is 1 minute and the configured RTO is 60 minutes. Failover recovery of this application is configured using the following steps.
1. Remote Pre check 2. Check DR Database Mode 3. Make XPCA device read write on DR 4. Setup the Mount Points for the devices 5. Mount the devices in read write mode 6. Apply the pending logs on DR 7. Activate Standby Database into read write mode on DR 8. Shutdown Database on DR 9. Start Database Mounted on DR 10. Open Database Read Write on DR 11. Switch Log File on DR IBANK Internet Banking DR Solution Signature: Oracle Archive Logs with Data Guard Configured RPO: 10 Minutes Configured RTO: 60 Minutes Mumbai Chennai Server Component [Linux] IBankMum_Oracle_RHEL Application Dataset [Oracle] IBankMum_Oracle Data Protection [Data Guard] IBankMum_Oracle_DG Network Component RouterMum_Cisco IBankChn_Oracle_RHEL IBankChn_Oracle IBankChn_Oracle_DG RouterChn_Cisco IBANK is an Oracle database running on Linux servers and protected by Archive Log replication using Oracle Data Guard. The configured RPO for this application is 10 minutes and the configured RTO is 60 minutes. Failover recovery of this application is configured using the following steps.
1. Remote Pre check 2. Check Archive Gap 3. Is Gap Present 4. Apply the pending logs on DR 5. Stop Managed Recovery on DR 6. Activate Standby Database into read write mode on DR 7. Shutdown Database on DR 8. Start Database Mounted on DR 9. Open Database Read Write on DR 10. Switch Log File on DR 12. Verify Database Mode on DR BCP Structure and DR Team Details The bank has a well established organization structure to support Business Continuity operations and a dedicated DR team to ensure recovery readiness of critical applications. The BCP manager reports to a BCP steering committee that comprises of business owners and the CIO. The CIO is responsible for the IT DR program and has a dedicated DR manager that coordinates with the various application teams to ensure IT recovery readiness.