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.
Words and Phrases
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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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. |
Using Boolean Operators
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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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- Service Level Management administration tasks
- Create a new service contract
- Delete a service contract
- Edit a service contract
- Edit the Service Contract Control record
- View a service contract
- View an exceeded interaction allocation service contract
- View an exceeded incident allocation service contract
- View an expired service contract
- View an overspent service contract
- Create a Labor Performed Detail record
- Create a Parts Detail record
- View a Labor Performed Detail record
- View a Parts Detail record
- Enable automatic outage posting
- Disable automatic outage posting
- Change outage start and end times
- Enable outage spreading
- Disable outage spreading
- Edit the Service Level Management control record
- Link an SLA to a contact record
- Link an SLA to a company record
- Recalculate availability and response time
- View service agreement metrics
- Configure Process Targets for assignment groups
- Research overall results
- Research service metrics
- Research process metrics
- Check Service Level Target metrics on a dashboard
- Assign a Service Level Agreement to a department
- Assign a Service Level Agreement to a company
- Assign a default Service Level Agreement
- Assign an Operational Level Agreement or an Underpinning Contract to an assignment group
- Display a cost table and expense line record
- View an expense line record
- Configure time duration settings
- Example: How to make Service Catalog Item Expiration work
Enable automatic outage posting
- Click Service Level Management > Administration > Configure Application.
- Click Search.
- Select an existing record.
- Service Level Management populates the Service Target Information section to generate outage data correctly. You can change the out-of-box field names to match your field names.
- Configuration Item fields identify the item to be tracked.
- Outage Condition is the signal to gather service metrics. For example, when a Configuration Item is unavailable, the condition is
nullsub(ci.down in $L.file, false)=true. However, the condition for other tables may vary. - Outage Start and Outage End fields specify when the outage begins and ends for manual or automatic outage posting.
- Select the Auto Post Outage Information checkbox.
- Click Save.
- Click OK.
Related topics
Service Level Management
Working with service agreements
Outages
Automatic outage posting
Outage spreading
Outage posting in other applications
Related topics
Disable automatic outage posting
Enable outage spreading
Disable outage spreading
Change outage start and end times
