Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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Either word in a topic |
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Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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- Incident Management workflows and user tasks
- Access Incident Management reports
- Create a new incident from a user interaction
- Create new incidents from monitoring system notifications
- Review and update incident information
- Assign an incident
- Reassign an incident
- Change incident status pending user information
- Change incident status pending vendor/supplier investigation
- Document an existing solution or workaround in an incident
- Test the incident resolution
- Change incident resolution
- Reassign incident resolution
- Reject an incident resolution
- Reject an incident resolution with an associated change or service request
- Escalate an incident
- Reassign an incident for additional support
- Monitor interaction queue for service level agreement breaches
- Monitor interaction queue for potential service level agreement breaches
- Handle Complaints
- Open an incident
- View a list of services potentially affected by an outage
- Apply a template to complete an incident
- Access Incident Management views
- Relate a record to an incident record
- Update an incident
- Resolve an incident
- Close an incident
- Close a first-time resolved incident
- Close an incident with an associated interaction or event
- Close multiple incident records
- Create an incident task
- Cancel an opened task for an incident record
- Close an opened task for an incident record
- Create other types of record from an incident
- Set a parent incident
- Set a child incident
- Unlink a child incident
- Mark an incident as a major incident
- Mark an incident for escalation
View a list of services potentially affected by an outage
The View Affected Services menu option enables you to view a list of services that are potentially affected by an outage relating to CIs that are specified in an incident or change record. By viewing the affected services list, you can determine the potential impact of an outage related to critical, dependent services when you open an incident. You can also use the affected services list to plan when opening a change.
Note The list of CIs generated does not include the CIs specified in the primary incident or change record.
To view a list of affected services:
- Perform one of the following actions.
- Open an existing incident or change record. Use search or advanced search to find one or more records.
- Proceed as if you are going to add a new incident or change record.
- If you are in the process of adding a new record, fill in the Affected CI.
- Click More or the More actions icon and select View Affected Services. The CI Identifier record opens.
- Open the Affected Services section. A list of affected services opens or a message, stating that there are no services affected by the outage.
Note: For change records, a list of all affected business services is returned in all cases, whether the record has one primary CI or multiple CIs. - Select a CI from the list for detailed information from the Configuration Management record.
- When you finish viewing the affected services, click Cancel.
Related topics
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Enable automatic outage posting
Disable automatic outage posting
Create a new incident from a user interaction
Create New Incidents from Monitoring System Notifications
Create a new change record