Patent ID: 8265980

Claim:
A method of deploying a workflow model to coordinate recovery of an outage within an IT infrastructure through execution of an integrated recovery plan, comprising: initiating a workflow responsive to the occurrence of an outage event; creating a processing context for the workflow; adding data to the processing context throughout the workflow related to the outage event, outage type, failed resources within the IT infrastructure, status of certain resources within the IT infrastructure, recovery options supplied by an operational management product, and contact information for the operational management product; executing the workflow, including performing the steps of: requesting automated analysis of the outage event to enrich the processing context; engaging one or more responsible parties to manually perform analysis of the outage event and select a recovery plan from a plurality of recovery plans; obtaining approval of the selected recovery plan from one or more decision making parties defined within the selected recovery plan; declaring a disaster by utilizing notification templates defined within the selected recovery plan; implementing the selected recovery plan upon the IT infrastructure to recover from the outage event, including executing recovery options within the selected recovery plan; verifying recovery to the outage event within the IT infrastructure by performing verifications upon results of the selected recovery plan implementation; and declaring recovery complete responsive to obtaining notifications produced by execution of the selected recovery plan; and analyzing the processing context to obtain post mortem analysis of recovery to the outage event with the selected recovery plan and to create continuous service improvements for the IT infrastructure.