Enabling Proactive Service Resolution
Organizations rely on incident management to get a visibility of disruptions in normal service operations. However, without automation, these incidents need to be created, updated, and upon the restoration of normal service behavior, resolved or closed to completion. Automation saves the manual time and effort invested in such repetitive incident management tasks and can help improve the turnaround time for resolving incidents.
Proactive Service Resolution is an end-to-end solution that integrates BMC Helix Operations Management with the supported trouble ticket management or IT service management systems to create trouble tickets or incidents for critical events, automatically.
The automated integration bridges the gap between operations and service desks and enables you to proactively manage the IT infrastructure risks that can impact the performance of your applications or services.
By using Proactive Service Resolution, you can integrate the event management solution, BMC Helix Operations Management with trouble ticket management systems, such as BMC Helix for CSP or ServiceNow Telecommunications and Media Assurance Workflows and create tickets for qualifying events automatically. BMC Helix Intelligent Automation also supports creating incidents for qualifying events in BMC Helix ITSM (ITSM).
Overview
When an event of a critical severity is generated in BMC Helix Operations Management, a predefined event policy gets triggered in BMC Helix Operations Management. This triggers an automation policy in BMC Helix Intelligent Automation. A trouble ticket or an incident gets created in the Trouble Ticket or IT Service Management System configured in BMC Helix Intelligent Automation and an information event is created inBMC Helix Operations Management. The information event contains the ticket or incident details and is updated every time the ticket or incident is updated.
The following illustration explains this process at a high level.
Products involved
The following table provides information about the products involved and the role of each product.
| Product | Role |
|---|---|
BMC Helix Operations Management | Monitors your IT infrastructure and generates events in case any problems occur. |
BMC Helix Intelligent Automation | Automates the process of creating and updating trouble tickets for critical events and creates an information event for the ticket. |
| Supported Trouble Ticket Management and IT Service Management (ITSM) systems. |
| Required for Level 2 (L2): Infrastructure-based service resolution. |
BMC Helix Discovery | Required for Level 3 (L3): Infrastructure-based service resolution with BMC Helix ITSM and BMC Helix Configuration Management Database. |
For more information about the supported versions of each of the product, see System requirements.
Proactive Service Resolution levels
Proactive Service Resolution supports the following levels:
With event-based service resolution, for every critical severity event, a trouble ticket or an incident is created in the supported Trouble Ticket Management or IT Service Management systems by using the event details. The trouble ticket can be of the case or incident type.
For L1, only BMC Helix Operations Management and the supported Trouble Ticket Management or ITSM systems are required.
With infrastructure-based service resolution, for every critical severity event, a trouble ticket or an incident is created along with the impacted configuration item (CI). If CI details are unavailable in the event, or not specified in the solution, a ticket/incident is created without associating any CI.
For L2, the Trouble Ticket Management or ITSM systems must be integrated with a Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
With infrastructure-based service resolution, for every critical severity event, an incident is created along with the impacted configuration item (CI) and the impacted service details.
If CI and impacted service details are unavailable in the event, or not specified in the solution, an incident gets created without associating any such information.
For L3, BMC Helix ITSM must be integrated with a Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and BMC Helix Discovery.
The following table lists the tasks that you need to perform to enable Proactive Service Resolution depending on the ticket or incident management system that you use:
| Product | Action | Reference |
|---|---|---|
BMC Helix ITSM | Configure Proactive Service Resolution for IT Service Management system | Configuring Proactive Service Resolution for incidents |
OR | ||
| Configure Proactive Service Resolution for the Trouble Ticket Management system of your choice | Configuring Proactive Service Resolution for TMF-compliant trouble tickets |
Comments
We might want to adjust the layout of the " tasks that you need to perform to enable Proactive Service Resolution." table at the bottom of this page.
Perhaps we should have BMC Helix ITSM first?
Then have a second part for "Helix for CSP", ServiceNow, etc etc
At first glance, this table seems like I have three tasks to follow. On closer inspection, I see its a choice depending on the ITSM system you have
Sure, John, I'll make these changes and publish this as soon as possible.
I have updated the table and based on your suggestions, added the product names in the first column. Hope this helps!
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