Patent ID: 8370679

Claim:
A method comprising: obtaining a first parameter of a first cluster, wherein the first cluster is operable to provide computing services to one or more client systems, data is replicated from the first cluster to a second cluster in accordance with a disaster recovery (“DR”) protocol, the second cluster is operable to provide the computing services to the client system(s) responsive to a failover from the first cluster, and the first parameter of the first cluster is accessed in accordance with the DR protocol when replicating the data from the first cluster to the second cluster; monitoring a state of a second parameter of the second cluster in response to the replication of the data from the first cluster to the second cluster, wherein the second parameter of the second cluster is accessed in accordance with the DR protocol when replicating the data from the first cluster to the second cluster; detecting, as a function of the first parameter and the state of the second parameter, at least one anomaly, wherein the at least one anomaly indicates a mismatch between the first parameter and the state of the second parameter; and generating an alert in response to detecting the at least one anomaly.