Working with Service Level Agreements


This topic provides instructions on updating Service Level Agreements for patches and vulnerabilities. 

To understand the concept of SLAs, see Service-Level-Agreements

Updating Service Level Agreements

On the Administration > SLA page, update the values in the Deadline and Warning Threshold fields for the Patch and Vulnerability Severity levels and save the changes.  

The following figure shows the out-of-the-box SLAs defined in the product.

SLAs.png
The following table describes the mapping between the vendor severity levels and the patch severity levels in BMC Helix Automation Console. 

Severity

Windows
(Vendor Impact)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Errata Severity)

5 - Critical

Critical

Critical

4 - High

Important

Important

3 - Medium

Moderate

Moderate

2 - Low

Low

Low

1 - Information

-

-

0 - Unknown

Unknown

No severity specified.

Click Reset Defaults to restore the default values.

 

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