Looking at a pure ITIL approach. Process Started
Incident - Email not working; Email SLA/OLA attached Incident sent to next tier, where they determined it is a network issue. At this step a Problem ticket would be opened, the Incident would be related, and any SLA/OLA for the Problem ticket would be generated. More than likely the next step would be to issue a Change Request to fix the network issue, which in turn may have additional SLA/OLA attached. Good Luck, Brian From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of John Johnson Sent: Friday, June 17, 2016 1:30 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Let's discuss best practices on SLM between the SLA and OLA relationship for BMC Remedy ** The more I work on trying to provide best practices to a customer on SLM, the more I feel like I'm just not there in being able to fully explain the concepts and correctly guide them on how to configure the SLAs and OLAs. There are two parts to my issue with SLM: the first part is with the concepts around SLM (services, SLAs, and OLAs) and the second part is with implementing them in BMC Remedy. Please provide any comments you have on my thinking. 1. Concepts 1. Services 1. There are two main types of services: Internal/External Customer Facing Services (IT services) -- let's call them Parent Services and Supporting Services (IT Provider services)-- let's call them Child Services. The Child Services should support the Parent Services. Many Child Services may make up a Parent Service. 2. Service Level Agreements 1. These are agreements for the Parent Services 1. Example: Email 3. Operational Level Agreements 1. These are agreements for the Child Services 1. Example: Exchange, Network, Database 2. Configuration based on concepts above 1. Atrium Service Catalog 1. You would define your services 2. Service Level Agreements 1. You would create an SLA and relate a Parent Service 2. Regarding Incident Management, you would setup the SLA and then relate service targets to it. Typically the service target would only include the related company and priority in the "Terms and Conditions" field, and once related to an SLA, the service target would use the Service defined in the SLA as part of it's terms and conditions to get attached to an incident ticket. 3. Operation Level Agreements 1. You would create an OLA and relate a Child Service 1. Related to Incident Management, you would setup the OLA and then relate service targets to it. Typically the service target would only include the related company and priority in the "Terms and Conditions" field, and once related to an OLA, the service target would use the Service defined in the OLA as part of it's terms and conditions to get attached to an incident ticket. So now my question is how would this work together in BMC Remedy? For example, a critical incident ticket is created because a user says that their email is not working and it's assigned to the Service Desk. The "Email" service would be related to the incident ticket using the "Service" field, which, in turn, would relate a specific service target (e.g. Email - Critical Priority Incident Resolution). Since "Email" is a Parent Service, the service target is related to an SLA. The "Email - Critical Priority Incident Resolution" service target will run from the time the ticket is created until it is resolved. The Service Desk does initial triage and then decides to escalate to a Tier 1 group. Tier 1 determines that there is an issue with a network component. Ideally, this network component should be part of a child service, which should be related to an OLA. So how should I continue? The ticket now needs an SLA and an OLA? Should a separate related incident ticket be created with the Child Service, so that the OLA would become attached? Is there some other way to have both the OLA and SLA attached to the original ticket? Should I design everything differently? Another thought was that the SLA should only be attached to Service Requests in SRM, and then only OLAs would be attached to the fulfillment applications. If this seems like a better solution. My only question is, because I haven't tested it, can we relate SLAs to the generic SRDs that Remedy uses when a Incident User creates a ticket directly in Incident Management and the system creates the related Service Request? _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ DISCLAIMER: The information contained in this e-mail and its attachments contain confidential information belonging to the sender, which is legally privileged. The information is intended only for the use of the recipient(s) named above. 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