While many companies dedicate hundreds of hours to develop, build, and test a DR plan, a commonly overlooked point is ensuring that your plan is compliant with your software or hardware provider’s licensing requirements. In the worse case scenario, incomplete licensing could be enough to derail a company's DR plan at the moment it's needed most. A disaster recovery plan is every bit as important as the ERP data it protects.
When evaluating your company's DR plan, it’s important to consider two scenarios:
•You realize your primary server has crashed in the middle of a busy production day and problems crop up as soon as the transfer begins and you find out there are differences between the two servers that make it impossible to transfer systems until the back-up is licensed. By the time you’re back online, you’ve lost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in orders, and you may have lost one or more customers.
•Your primary server goes offline, and the transfer to an identical back-up unit goes smoothly. But the next time you need service or support, you find out you’ve violated your user license. You’ve set yourself up for an unpleasant surprise by failing to license your back-up server when you had the chance.
Getting a back-up license in place before you need it is the ultimate insurance policy. It costs far less than a primary license and it enables that secondary server that you hope you’ll never have to use.
To learn more about the Disaster Recovery Plan process, and how Infor distribution and manufacturing software can ensure license compliance, visit the Infor Newsroom.
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