DISASTER DETECTION PLANS IN DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

The business continuity plan describes the steps an organization takes when it cannot operate normally because of natural or manmade disaster. It may be written for a specific business process or may address for mission critical business processes. Business continuity and disaster recovery are critical components used to ensure that the systems essential to the operation of organization are available when needed. This is important to control the MTD (Mean Tolerable Downtime). A distributed disaster detection system that is based on agents. Disaster Recovery Plans is a crucial part of the life of an IT center in an organization; it contains policies and procedures to be applied before, during, and after a disaster of an IT system. However, an important part of the disaster recovery process comes when the disaster occurs up until the disaster recovery plan is activated. This is precious time to detect and declare a disaster especially in critical systems.