Investigating the service nodes from service hierarchy view
The service hierarchy visualization in BMC Helix AIOps makes the investigation of the impacted service or child services easier. The node details pane provides the total duration of the impact, total number of events, situations, incidents, or changes that might have caused the impact, and the latest timestamp of the update.
Scenario
At APEX Global IT, there is an E-Banking application service with two child services: Storage Services and Core-Banking-Infra. The Core-Banking-Infra service has Digital Payments as the child service. From the Services page, Susan, the operator, noticed that both E-Banking and Core-Banking-Infra are in critical state.
From the service details page, Susan navigates to the Service Hierarchy view to investigate the impacted service and child service. Viewing that she understands, the direct impact is on Core-Banking-Infra. E-Banking itself does not have any events. Impact on Core-Banking-Infra is propagated to E-Banking that impacts health score of E-Banking. The dotted line between Core-Banking-Infra and Digital Payments indicates that any impact on Digital Payments is not getting propagated to Core-Banking-Infra.
From the node details of each service, she analyzes details, such as the number of critical events, situations, incidents, or changes, that might have caused the impact and the total duration of the current impact.
To investigate the upstream and downstream impact of service nodes in a hierarchical view
- On the Services page, click a service name to view the health of and impact on the service.
- Click Service Hierarchy to view the service nodes for the parent and child services.
- Select a service node.
- On the Node Details page, click individual tabs and select an event, situation, incident, or change listed to view and investigate the list of all impacting events, situations, incidents, and changes and their details.
From the Event Details summary pane, you can launch BMC Helix Operations Management to analyze the complete event details. - Click Upstream Hierarchy or Downstream Hierarchy or both to view the upstream (parent nodes) or downstream (child nodes) hierarchy of the service node.
- Click Open in new tab
on a service node to view the service details in a new browser tab.
For example, the following figure shows the topology of Storage Services after you click the tab:
- (Optional) Expand Analyze Root Cause to investigate the root cause of an issue.
For example, you can investigate and understand whether the impact on the Core-Banking-Infra service affects the E-Banking service. For more information, see Performing-causal-analysis-of-impacted-services.
Where to go from here
Based on the health of and impact on a service, you can perform any of the following tasks:
- View CI topology for impacted services. For more information, see Identifying-the-impacted-CI-nodes-from-CI-topology-view.
- View health indicators for an impacted service. For more information, see Monitoring-service-health-indicators.
- View the causal analysis for the impact. For more information, see Performing-causal-analysis-of-impacted-services.
- Get an insight into the service behavior and its severity pattern over a pre-defined period. For more information, see Monitoring-service-insights.