My company is a relatively small enterprise (about 800 people scattered across 45-50 branches) and we are planning on setting up a periodic failover/redundancy testing schedule for our routers. Basically, we want to test the secondary WAN links at our branch offices and test our redundancy in our data centers.
I'm sure there is plenty of documentation out there in regards to best practices, but what I find has more to do with a full DR test of a enterprise's systems, as opposed to a simple failover test of an office's WAN link.
Does anyone have good suggestions for how often you should run these tests? My original thinking is to do this every quarter, but this would involve some travel for us and our resources are slim. The branch offices can be done remotely without any issue, but our DR site (which is actually used for some production traffic) would probably require one of our staff to be on site during a redundancy test.
Thanks!
