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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- Configuration Management overview
- Configuration Management tables
- Configuration item maintenance history
- Searching Configuration Management
- Generating a large number of incident records
- Service Portfolio Creation
- Service Inventory
- Service Asset & Configuration Management (SACM) Reports
- Data Validation
- Configuration Management Access Control
- Service Portfolio Auditing
- Service Portfolio Notification and Escalation
- Service Portfolio Archiving
- Integration: Service Catalog And Knowledge Management Modules
- Financial Management
- Configuration Item Relationship Types
- Service Levels and Subscriptions
Service Levels and Subscriptions
Each service record has associations to one or more Service Levels offered to potential customers. In addition, the services are linked to actual customers and their contracted SLAs. SLAs can be associated to services, and performance against defined SLAs is displayed graphically in Service Manager.
Moreover, service subscriptions track the relationships between IT customers and the services they use. A service subscriber, either an individual user or an entire department, can request subscriptions to various services listed in the Service Catalog. A subscriber’s list of subscriptions may reference access to shared services and individually assigned CIs. Subscriptions can include SLAs, history, custom options, and pending change requests.
Service Manager offers two modes of support for requesting service subscriptions: requests by using the Service Catalog and direct requests by using Change Management fulfillment.
Each subscription can be associated with one Service SLA. The subscription table stores the SLA ID for the Service SLA associated with the subscription. Service Manager supports multiple Service SLAs when an interaction, change request, incident, or problem record is created.
A power user can search for and view the Service SLA title when viewing a subscription record. A self-service user can view the Service SLA in a read-only find field. When a self-service user clicks the Find button, a detail window opens that contains the Service SLA ID, title, and description.
Service Subscriptions and Business Data
Service subscriptions track the relationships between business users and the services they use. A service subscriber, either an individual user or an entire department, can request subscriptions to various services listed in the Service Catalog. A subscriber’s list of subscriptions may reference access to shared services and individually assigned CIs. Subscriptions can include SLAs, history, custom options, and pending change requests.
This function is also available in Micro Focus Project and Portfolio Management (PPM). PPM Application Portfolio Management (APM) module maps business processes to applications.
In Micro Focus UCMDB, the CI and CI relationships are governed by the Micro Focus Universal Data Model (UDM). From that viewpoint, a user can see three CI types: Business Process, Service, and Business Service – all extensions of CI type Business Element.
The CI type BusinessProcess is defined as follows in UDM:
“A Business Process is a collection of inter (user-triggers or automatic), which solve a particular issue to define the functional needs of the business service being provided. A process can be hierarchically decomposed into business activities. Usage: Some of the business processes are provided to the external customers, others are internal processes that are essential for the effective management of the business. Example: Order processing, new employee on-boarding, etc.”
The UDM allows business process CIs to be connected “downward” to service CIs and “upward” to business service CIs.
The logic is supported by the definition of CI type “service” (below) in UDM which can represent an IT service:
“A Service is an abstract class which may represent an IT or Business Service, including Infrastructure Services which are delivered by IT in support of a Business Service.”
Service Subscriptions and Technical Data
Each service is linked to the applications, hardware, and other CIs (including other services) that comprise the service. OLAs, contracts, and other agreements can be created in the Service Level Management module and linked to the service.
Moreover each subscription can be associated with one service SLA. The subscription table stores the SLA ID for the service SLA associated with the subscription. Service Manager supports multiple service SLAs when an interaction, change request, incident, or problem record is created.
A power user can search for and view the service SLA title when viewing a subscription record. A self-service user can view the service SLA in a read-only find field. When a self-service user clicks the Find button, a detail window opens that contains the service SLA ID, title, and description.
