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
| Search for | Operator | Example |
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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 Portfolio Auditing
Service Manager does not audit the Service Portfolio items but has a utility by which the system can create a copy of the catalog item record every time it is updated. In this way, all changes to the items are fully documented.
Service Manager date/time and user stamps each record when the record is created or saved.
Service Manager also tracks changes to CI attributes in the Configuration Management module.
Service Manager provides an audit trail capability that identifies the updates to the CIs/services. Each time the CI record is updated (whether manually or automatically), updates document the attributes that were updated.
Service Manager also provides an auditing feature that records modifications to fields within the Service Manager database. Field modifications are detected by comparing the fields in the original version of a record to the updated version. When modifications are detected, an Audit Log entry is recorded for each changed field showing the name of the modified field, the old and new version of the data, the current date/time, and the current operator’s user ID.
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