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Problem Management user role descriptions

The following table describes the responsibilities of the HPE Service Manager Problem Management user role descriptions.

Role Responsibilities
Problem Manager
  • Prioritize and plan problems registered by the Problem Coordinators
  • Communicate with stakeholders if required
  • Inform the Change Manager if required
  • Defer Problems if needed
  • Decide on investigation of Known Errors
  • Register Request for Changes or Service Requests to solve known errors
  • Conduct problem review and document lessons learned
  • Close problem and inform stakeholders
  • Monitor problem and known error resolution progress and perform required action
Problem Coordinator
  • Periodically perform analysis to see if new problems need to be registered
  • Register problems
  • Assign work to Problem Analysts and coordinate Root Cause Analysis
  • Register known errors
  • Inform Problem Manager
  • Assign known error to Problem Analyst
  • Validate proposed solutions to known errors
  • Validate outcome of closed changes and close known error
  • Validate that a problem is solved.
Problem Analyst
  • Investigate and diagnose assigned problems for workarounds and/or root causes
  • Review and accept or reject assigned known errors
  • Investigate and diagnose assigned known errors and propose solutions and workarounds
  • Implement corrective actions and close known error