Centricity™ PerinatalDisaster RecoveryA technical presentation by Bill Sherwood
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General Electric Company reserves the right to make changes in specifications and features shown herein, or discontinue the product described at any time without notice or obligation. This does not constitute a representation or warranty or documentation regarding the product or service featured.Centricity Perinatal does not replace clinical observation and evaluation of the patient at regular intervals, by a qualified care provider, who will make diagnoses and decide on treatments or interventions. Features of the Centricity Perinatal system are intended to support clinical decision making and should be used in combination with other clinical inputs, such as real time patient observation and information contained within other systems or recording tools. Not intended to be used as a primary monitoring device. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.Internet Explorer is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.All patient names and data are fictional.
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Disaster Recovery for Centricity™ Perinatal Agenda
Why disaster recovery?
What is disaster recovery?
How are we going to make it work?
Disaster recovery options.
Recovering from a disaster.
Questions
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Centricity PerinatalWhy disaster recovery?
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Why disaster recovery?
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What is a disaster?
Disaster:
An occurrence causing widespread destruction and distress; a catastrophe. A grave misfortune
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What is a disaster?
Play YouTube video about Pixar loosing data
The movie vanishes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL_g0tyaleE
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What is recovery?
The act, process, duration or instance of recovering
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What is CPN disaster recovery?
A Centricity Perinatal System WITHOUT a disaster recovery solution
If a disaster happens, Centricity Perinatal data is lost
CPN Data
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What is CPN disaster recovery?
A Centricity Perinatal System WITH a disaster recovery solution
If a disaster happens, Centricity Perinatal data is safe and your system is up and running in no time
CPN Data
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What is CPN disaster recovery?
• Patient records (PFILS)• Archived patient database• Security audit trail database• CPN configuration (site tables)• System configuration
CPN Data
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Centricity PerinatalHow are we going to make it work?
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How are we going to make it work?
Understanding Centricity Perinatal data flow by knowing how system is configured
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How are we going to make it work?
using a fetal monitor having internal serial line isolation' after Configuration to comply with the wiring diagrams in the CSE manual.
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Centricity Perinatal – Fault tolerance
Primary Server
Redundant Power Supply
Drive Array using RAID technology with “HOT” spare
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Centricity Perinatal – Fault tolerance
Primary Server
Redundant Power Supply
Drive Array using RAID technology with “HOT” spare
Backup Server
Duplicate of the primary server
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Very important Centricity Perinatal files
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Very important Centricity Perinatal files
Archive Database location
Staging area for archive patient files prior to archive
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Very important Centricity Perinatal files
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Very important Centricity Perinatal files
Birthlog Database
Security Audit Trail
Designer Audit Trail
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Very important Centricity Perinatal files
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Very important Centricity Perinatal files
Container for all LIVE patient files
*.V01 on primary
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Very important Centricity Perinatal files
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Very important Centricity Perinatal files
CPN Database files
Site\Back contains backup copies
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Very important Centricity Perinatal files
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Centricity PerinatalBackup server
Primary Backup
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Centricity PerinatalBackup server
Primary Backup
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Centricity PerinatalBackup server
Primary
Two important backup processes
Backup
1. PFILBACK process
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Centricity PerinatalBackup server
Primary
PFILSBACK=\\Backupserver\PFILS
Backup
Maintaining the copy of the patient files on the Backup server
PFILBACK uses a mapped UNC path from the Primary to Backup Server
PFILS verify runs every 24 hours
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Centricity PerinatalBackup server
Primary
Two important backup processes
Backup
1. PFILBACK process
2. QSCOPY process
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Centricity PerinatalBackup server
Primary
QSCOPY every
60 mins.
Backup
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Centricity PerinatalDisaster Recovery Options
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Disaster recovery option #1
Backup the D:\qs\backup folder to the backup server
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Disaster recovery option #1Backup server
QS Backup every 8
hrs
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Disaster recovery option #1Backup server
This folder contains necessary files to rebuild the CPN system to the state it was in within 8 hours prior to the disaster.
Hospital IT should be consulted on a plan for this folder to be backed up by Hospital IT at a hospital determined interval.
Centricity Perinatal process only copies data to this folder.
*Backup server does not have backup folder
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Disaster recovery option #1Backup server
Hospital IT creates backup using Hospital IT backup application job to:
Tape
Storage Area Network
File server
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Disaster recovery option #1Backup server
Hospital IT creates backup using Hospital IT backup application job to:
Tape
Storage Area Network
File server
Backup copies should be moved or located offsite as soon as possible for safe keeping
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Disaster recovery option #2
Centricity Perinatal Disaster Recovery Drives
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How do we use hospital supplied recovery drives?
By using the qscopy command we can move data around
We need 2 network drives.
Copy site specific directories such as SITE, PFILS, Microsoft® ACCESS and ARCHIVE to both drives
Server
Staging Second Storage
CPN
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Contents of staging drive
Contains the following folders – SITE, PFILS, ARCHIVE, Microsoft® ACCESS
This folder is the most recent snapshot from the primary server
Server StagingSecond Storage
CPNPer Hr
Per day
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Contents of second storage drive
Contains 4 directories with the format FILENAME_DATE_TIME
For example, Archive_20130203_141
Timestamp corresponds to every time a backup is taken from the staging drive
ServerStaging Second
StorageCPNPer Hr Per day
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Disaster recovery drives in action
Primary CPN server
qscopy
Pfils
Microsoft Access®
Site
Archive
Pfils_date_time
MSAccess®_date_time
Site_date_time
Archive_date_time
K: Staging Drive L: Secondary Storage Drive
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Disaster recovery drives in action
Primary CPN server
qscopy
Pfils
Microsoft Access®
Site
Archive
Pfils_date_time
MSAccess® _date_time
Site_date_time
Archive_date_time
K: Staging Drive L: Secondary Storage Drive
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Disaster recovery drives in action
Data is never purged from secondary storage drive by GE.
Customer is responsible for maintaining DR folders
L: Secondary Storage Drive
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Disaster recovery drives can be at different locations
Primary
K: Staging Drive
L: Secondary Storage Drive
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Recovering from a disaster
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Steps to recover from a disaster
Is backup server available?
Server replacement
Contact technical support to failover
Reinstallation of CPN server software
Restore data backup to new server
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Questions anyone?