BMC Atrium Impact Simulator
BMC Atrium Impact Simulator uses the impact relationships that you create between CIs. For information about creating relationships, see Relating-assets.
When you run a simulation, you can specify an impact state for each CI in the simulation. The following table lists the states that you can select in BMC Atrium Impact Simulator:
BMC Atrium Impact Simulator state | Description |
|---|---|
Slightly Impaired | The item is delivering services normally, but some problem might affect it. |
Impaired | The item's delivery of service is slightly affected. |
Very Impaired | The item's delivery of service is affected. |
Unavailable | The item has a failure and is unable to deliver any service. |
When you run a simulation, BMC Atrium Impact Simulator uses these states and the impact relationships defined between CIs to predict the corresponding impact on the items that the CIs represent. For example, a simulation that includes a server with an impact state of Unavailable might return several related CIs that are predicted to be unavailable as a result of the unavailable server. However, an impaired server in that same simulation might return impacted CIs that are predicted to be in the Slightly Impaired state.
Priorities can help you understand the problems that you should address first if you were to make the changes that you simulated. For example, a simulation might reveal that if a server were to fail, email and payroll services might be disabled. The computed priority for these services would help you decide which service to restore first.
If you have BMC Helix ITSM: Change Management installed, you can open a new change request directly from BMC Atrium Impact Simulator. Similarly, if you have BMC Helix ITSM: Service Desk installed, you can open a new incident request. Use this strategy to take immediate action if the results of an impact simulation are acceptable.
The following figure shows the Impact Simulator to which some CIs are added to view there impact:
The following figure shows the result of the impact:
