Follow these steps to determine the extent of the necessary automated tooling:
- Create a spreadsheet with the following columns: Server Name, Source, Environment, Streaming, Promotion, and Backup.
- Consider using an external tool if any of these are true:
- For Environment, use Production or Disaster Recovery
- Specify True or False for Streaming if the server is a streaming provider or recipient
- Mark the Promotion column as True or False if the server can be promoted to be the master copy for the whole constellation of servers
- Indicate True or False for Backup if the server is used for backups
- Create a row for each server indicating its Server Name and the Source of its data.
- For each row, set the corresponding attribute ...
