Incident Lifecycle

The following table describes the stages of an incident’s lifecycle.

NNMi Incident Lifecycle

Lifecycle State

Description

State Set By

Incident Used By

none

The NNMi event pipeline receives input from all sources and creates incidents as needed.

not applicable

  • NNMi

Dampened

The incident is in a holding place waiting to be correlated with another incident. The purpose of this waiting period is incident reduction in the incident viewers.

The dampening interval can vary per incident type. For more information, see Incident Suppression, Enrichment, and Dampening.

NNMi

  • NNMi

Registered

The incident is visible in incident views.

The incident is forwarded to any configured destinations (northbound or global manager).

NNMi

A user can also set this state in an incident view.

  • Users
  • Lifecycle transition actions
  • Integrations that forward incidents

In Progress

The incident has been assigned to someone who is investigating the problem.

The network administrator defines the specific meaning of this state.

User

  • Users
  • Lifecycle transition actions
  • Integrations that forward incidents

Completed

Investigation of the problem indicated by the incident is complete, and a solution is in place.

The problem that the incident identifies

The network administrator defines the specific meaning of this state.

User

  • Users
  • Lifecycle transition actions
  • Integrations that forward incidents

Closed

Indicates that NNMi determined the problem reported by this Incident is no longer a problem. For example, when you remove an interface from a device, all incidents related to the interface are automatically closed.

User or NNMi

  • Users
  • Lifecycle transition actions
  • Integrations that forward incidents