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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| A single word | cat
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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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- Processes and Best Practices
- Service Desk Overview
- Service Desk Workflows
- Service Desk Details
- Incident Management Overview
- Incident Management Workflows
- Incident Management Details
- Problem Management Overview
- Problem Management Workflows
- Problem Management Details
- Change Management Overview
- Change Management Workflows
- Change Management Details
- Knowledge Management Overview
- Knowledge Management Workflows
- Knowledge Management Details
- Configuration Management Overview
- Configuration Management Workflows
- Configuration Management Details
- Request Fulfillment Overview
- Request Fulfillment Workflows
- Request Fulfillment Details
- Service Level Management Overview
- Service Level Management Workflows
- Service Level Management Details
- Release and Deployment Management
- Service Desk (Streamlined Interaction)
Service Level Management Overview
You can use Service Level Management (SLM) to improve the quality of services that you provide to customers. You can also use Service Level Management to quantify the financial benefits in reduced incidents, outages, and time invested in system failures and downtime. Service Level Management collects performance information automatically to track service guarantees. Service Level Management enables you to achieve the following results:
- Ensure compliance with service and process targets set in the Service Level Agreement
- Report performance information to track the effectiveness and efficiency of managed services
- Detect and track failures of service guarantees
- Quantify costs associated with planned and unplanned service outages
Service Level Management uses the Service Level Targets (SLTs) to measure operational activities in other Service Manager applications .
This section describes how Service Level Management implements the best practice guidelines for the Service Level Management processes.
Topics in this section include:
Service Level Management within the ITIL Framework
Service Level Management Application
Input and output for Service Level Management
Key performance indicators for Service Level Management
