Troubleshooting impact analysis issues


When you run an impact analysis on an incident or relate the impacted CIs back to the incident, you might encounter some issues.

The following table provides the issue details and the resolutions:

Issue symptom

Issue scope

Resolution

Reference

Running an impact analysis on an incident

The following error message is displayed:

Error (245150) Could not retrieve any starting CIs. Verify if the CIs are synced to DSM.

From an existing incident, when you click More > Impact Analysis Console, and select Create new impact analysis run > Use associated CIs or Create new impact analysis run > Select input CIs.

Run a Smart Graph Sync Schedule from BMC Helix CMDB.

Scheduling a DSM Sync to share impact attributes with BMC Helix NetOps in the BMC Helix CMDB online documentation portal.

The following error message is displayed:

Error (245124) You cannot run the impact analysis till the data sync is complete.

From an existing incident, when you click More > Impact Analysis Console and select Create new impact analysis run > Select input CIs.

Run a Smart Graph Sync Schedule from BMC Helix CMDB.

Scheduling a DSM Sync to share impact attributes with BMC Helix NetOps in the BMC Helix CMDB online documentation portal.

The following error message is displayed:

Error (245116) Currently, there are no CIs associated to this ticket. You must associate a CI to run the impact analysis.

From an existing incident, when you click More > Impact Analysis Console, and select Create new impact analysis run > Select input CIs.

Associate impact CIs with the Association type other than Impacts to the incident.

The following error message is displayed:

Error (245114) The impact analysis is already in progress. After the existing process is complete, you can initiate another impact analysis.

From an existing incident, when you click More > Impact Analysis Console, and select Create new impact analysis run > Use associated CIs or Create new impact analysis run > Select input CIs.

Wait till the impact analysis process completes and then run the impact analysis again.

Relating impacted CIs back to an incident

The following warning message is displayed:

Warning (245121) The selected CIs are already related to this ticket.

From the Incident Analysis Console, when you select the CIs, and click Relate selected CIs.

Select other CIs and then click Relate selected CIs.

 

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