Troubleshooting BMC Helix Cognitive Automation

Before using BMC Helix Cognitive Automation, ensure that you have the Cognitive Service Config permission. For information about this permission, see BMC Cognitive Service Management permission. Understand the types of training data and the guidelines to follow while generating the data. For more information, see Training data for BMC Helix Cognitive Automation. If you still encounter any challenges using BMC Cognitive Service Management, this topic helps you provide information about troubleshooting such issues while using cognitive service and generating training data.

Considerations

While using BMC Helix Cognitive Automation feature to auto-apply templates to the tickets, you must consider the following points:

• While creating a ticket if user selects the Reported Source as Email, the cognitive service automatically applies template to that ticket.
• The training data set contains GUID that is unique for a Innovation Suite server or IBM Watson account. If this data set is used to train Application Templates on multiple ITSM stacks, the results of cognitive service are not predictable.

Issues with configuring cognitive service

If the system encounters any errors while you configure the cognitive service, it throws an error. If the error message states that the URL, username, or password provided to configure BMC Helix Cognitive Automation is incorrect, you must re-enter the correct URL and credentials. However, if the error type is not related to incorrect credentials, you must analyze the error details in the arextension.log file in ARSysteminstalldirectory\Arserver\Db and contact BMC Support.

Issues with generating training data

If the system encounters any error while generating training data, the status of the training data record is set to FAILED and an error message is displayed below the Data set configuration table.

Cognitive Data Setup form

The error message provide the reason for failure of the training data. The details of the error are logged in the arextension.log file in ARSysteminstalldirectory\Arserver\Db. You must analyze the error description and perform a corrective action based on the error type.

Deactivating a previously trained dataset

In a certain situation, if you don't want to use Cognitive Service to use a trained dataset, you can deactivate the option for that trained dataset to auto-categorize or auto-populate of templates. For this, you must perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to Application Administration Console > Custom Configuration > Foundation > Advanced Options > Cognitive Service Configuration.
2. On the Cognitive Data Setup form, select Cognitive Data Type.
3. Select the training data set that you want to deactivate.
4. Change the Status to Inactive.

Additionally, if you want to delete the trained data for Application Templates, the option to delete the data set is disabled. To delete the trained data set, open the data set using Data Set ID on the form AR System Administration:Cognitive Service Training Data Set Pending.

Related topics

Training data for BMC Helix Cognitive Automation

Generating training data for BMC Helix Cognitive Automation