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?