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Declaring a CI as a Service

Description:

How to steps that guide you on how This article guides you through the process to declare a CI as a Service.

Introduction

When creating tickets, I would like to relate it to the Affected Service. How do I declare a Configuration Item to be a Service so that I can choose from a list of Services Procedure.
If you'd like to make a set of CIs available as Affected Service, you can do this by declaring the 'Class' of a CI under the Slice in Configuration Parameter, using the "SLA_BUSINESS_SERVICES_IDENTIFIER_CLASSES" parameter name.  For

For example, you would like All CIs in your instance having the CCTI of "Software >> Application" be available as Affected Service on a Ticket. 
To do this, you can navigate to Tools >> Configuration Parameters and under the parameter follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to MANAGE> Tools > Configuration Parameters.
  2. Select the SLA_BUSINESS_SERVICES_IDENTIFIER_CLASSES parameter and add the Class "Software" in the Parameter Description field. You can

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  1. specify more than one Class

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  1. in Parameter Description; the list should be comma separated.

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  1. After making this change

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  1. , log out from the application and log

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  1. in

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  1. again to view the modifications. You can notice that, when creating tickets if you go to the Affected Service Lookup,

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  1. all CIs that have their 'Class' set to "Software" in the list are included.

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Keywords: CI; affected Service