Service health status for install base
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Summary of Service Health Status for Install Base
This feature allows ServiceNow customers to monitor the real-time health status of their install base by integrating Customer Service Management with the Event Management console in IT Operations Management. This integration helps correlate customer issues with operational health, enabling more informed responses from customer service agents.
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Key Features
- Service Health Tracking: Alerts created for issues affecting install base items are linked to their severity calculated in Event Management.
- Mapped Fields: Key fields from Event Management are mapped to Customer Service Management, including Business Service, Configuration Item, and Severity.
- Health Status Display: The service health status is viewable in Customer Service Management, providing insights based on alert severity.
Key Outcomes
Customers benefit from a clear understanding of the health status of install base items, which is crucial for effective issue resolution. Service health statuses are categorized based on alert severity, ranging from Critical to Normal, allowing agents to prioritize responses appropriately. Additionally, system administrators can customize form views to enhance visibility of health statuses in relevant forms.
View the real-time health status of a customer's install base. Correlate customer issues with the operational health of their install base to provide more informed responses to your customers.
Service health tracking overview
The integration between Customer Service Management and the Event Management console in IT Operations Management enables you to track the service health status of a customer's install base.
When an issue affects one or more install base items and an alert is created, the severity of the alert is calculated in Event Management. It is calculated according to alert impact calculation rules. Based on the severity of the alert, the service health status of each install base item is calculated. Customer service agents can view the service health status of install base items in an account or a case in Customer Service Management.
​For more information about how the severity of an alert is calculated, see Alert impact calculation.
| Event Management (em_impact_status table) | Customer Service Management (sn_install_base_item table) |
|---|---|
| Business Service | Service Context |
| Element Identifier | Configuration Item |
| Severity | Health Status |
The service health status is displayed in Customer Service Management as follows.
| Severity of alert (Event Management) | Service health status on Account and Case forms (Customer Service Management) |
|---|---|
| Critical | Critical: Resource is either not functional or critical problems are imminent. |
| Major | Major: Major functionality is severely impaired or performance has degraded. |
| Minor | Minor: Partial, non-critical loss of functionality or performance degradation occurred. |
| Warning | Warning: Attention is required, even though the resource is still functional. |
| Info | Normal: No severity. An alert is created. The resource is still functional. |
| Clear | Normal |
| Empty/Null | Not Available |
For more information about alert severity, see Lesson 1 of the Event Management operator guide.
Roles
As a system administrator, configure form views to add the Service Context, Health Status, and Health Status Last Updated fields to the relevant forms.
As a customer service agent, view the service health status of install base items on the Account or Case form.
Activation information
This feature requires the Proactive Customer Service Operations with Event Management plugin (com.snc.proactive_cs_itom).