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Overview

A drill template is designed for building, managing, and optimizing fault drills. It contributes a systematic process to improve the efficiency of drill lifecycle management to some extend. This drill template helps you quickly create a specific fault drill, covering the entire process including creation, maintenance, and update. You will conduct a real, effective, and reusable drill on your system.

Core Features

  • Out-of-the-box standardized design
    • There are multiple preset templates designed for typical scenarios (such as cross-AZ DR and data storage exception scenarios). You can use the templates to create drill tasks.
    • You can customize scenarios based on the existing ones to meet your specific service requirements like special service process and customized risk situations.
  • Scenario library for actual requirements
    • Built-in industry-typical scenario library: covers common service scenarios (such as high system resource usage and automatic traffic switchover) and contingency plan scenarios (such as data storage exceptions and environment overload in the microservice architecture).
    • Scenario-based tag management: improves co-work efficiency using templates filtered by template name and description.

Core Advantages

Table 1 Core advantages

Item

Description

High efficiency
  • The scenario setup time is reduced, and the template can be reused over 80%.
  • The standardized process shortens the drill preparation and improves the execution efficiency.

Accessible for all
  • Scenario configuration can be completed through visualized GUIs and wizard-based operations without professional technical background.
  • Beginners can quickly get started.

Scenario validity
  • The templates are designed based on actual service requirements and history cases. The drill content is close to actual scenarios.
  • The templates can be verified from multiple dimensions (such as risk coverage and process rationality) to improve the practice value.

Flexibility and scalability
  • Customized scenarios can meet differentiated requirements.
  • The existing systems (such as the emergency management platform and training system) can be interconnected for data exchange.

Knowledge accumulation
  • The scenario library records enterprise-specific best practices which forms organization-level knowledge assets.
  • The version management function facilitates experience inheritance and continuous optimization.

Typical Scenarios

  • Enterprise emergency drills: Quickly enable contingency plans when you need to respond to cyber security attacks, handle production incidents, and more.
  • Compliance drills: Customize scenarios (such as data privacy protection) based on regulatory requirements to ensure that drills comply with industry specifications.
  • Routine drills: Perform chaos drills regularly based on different template scenarios to identify and avoid live network problems.
Parent Topic: Drill Templates