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Monitoring services


As an operator, you can view all services on the Services page to get quick insight about service health and availability. 

The Services page displays all services from the components, which are integrated with BMC Helix Portal. For more information, see Data-providers-for-services-and-situations

To monitor services

  1. In the BMC Helix AIOps console, click Entities to view the Services page. 
  2. (Optional) The Services page displays the count of services categorized by service severity. Click a service severity to view or hide services of that severity.
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  3. (Optional) Enter a service name in the search box and click Search button.pngsearch. The search results are retained even if you switch between the Tile view or the Heatmap view. search_services.gif
  4. (Optional) Next to Views, select one of the following views:
    • Tile view tile_view_icon.png: By default, services are displayed in the tile view. Each tile represents a service and displays the service name, service impact score, and the count of events, incidents, and total impacted CI count associated with the service.
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    • Heatmap view heatMap_view.png: Displays the service details in a hierarchical format as shown in the following image: 
      mon_Serv_heatMap_view.png
      The services are color-coded by severity:
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  5. Clickaction_menu_icon.png> Create Service  to create a new service. For more information on modeling a service, see Modeling-services.

 

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