Outage spreading

Although a Service Level Target describes a single Configuration Item (CI), the availability of one CI may also affect the availability of other CIs. For example, if a web server has an outage, the corporate web site also experiences an outage, even though it has no defects. Outage spreading captures data about the related CIs affected by an outage.

An slamodulecontrol application integration record has two settings to configure outage spreading. Select Spread Outages to enable outage spreading. When you choose this setting, Service Level Management displays the Extend outage spreading to more than one level? checkbox.