Comparing impact simulations

A Change Manager may want to compare and analyse the impact on a business service in different scenarios. In such cases, CMDB Impact Simulator enables you to save the simulations and compare simulations so that the Change Manager can take an appropriate action. 

You can compare the results of any saved simulation with the simulation currently loaded. You can also compare the results of a new simulation with an earlier version of the same simulation to see how the results changed over time.

For example, you might compare the predicted outcomes of two different impact simulations designed to address the same plan for disaster recovery to see which scenario best suits your needs.

You can save your simulations, allowing you to experiment with different kinds of impacts on the network and determine the nature of the affected services. You can compare these models and assign weights to your business services based on their relative importance. For example, you may have an email service and a payroll service being impacted at the very same time. Based on the weights, you can quickly determine which service must be restored first. If you created a simulation that you are satisfied with, you can create a change request related to this simulation so that you can get started with the tasks that are needed to facilitate this change.