Working with Services
You can create a service to offer to your customers. If your organization provides multiple services (such as web hosting or mobile communications), you can link separate service level agreements and service level packages based on each.
The process for defining and offering a service is:
1.Create and define a request offering and assign it to a category. Refer to Creating a Request Offering.
2.Create and define a service request. Refer to Working with Service Requests.
3.Optional. Create and define service level agreements. The service level agreement defines the terms and conditions for these request items. Refer to Working with Service Level Agreements.
Creating a Service
1.Log in to the application as a service owner.
2.Open the Services Request workspace.
3.Click New Service. The system displays a new service record.
The following default tabs appear (may vary depending on your system setup):
•Details: Continue to the next step.
•Task: Lists tasks linked to this record. Refer to Working with Tasks.
•External Task: Lists external tasks linked to this record. Refer to Using External Tasks.
•Event: Lists events links to this record. Refer to Working with Event Management.
•CI Map Tree: Refer to Working with Event Management.
•Service Agreements: Lists service agreements linked to this record. Refer to Working with Service Level Agreements.
•Cost Item: Lists cost items linked to this record. Refer to Working with Cost Items.
•Team: Lists teams linked to this record. Refer to Working with Teams.
•Vendor: Lists vendors linked to this record. Refer to Creating a Vendor.
•Incident: Lists incidents linked to this record. Refer to Managing Incidents.
•Problem: Lists problems linked to this record. Refer to Working with Problems.
•Change: Lists changes linked to this record. Refer to Creating a Change Request.
•Change Window: Refer to Setting up a Change Window and Lockout.
•Change Lockout: Refer to Setting up a Change Window and Lockout.
•Outage Log: Refer to Working with the Outage Log.
•Release: Refer to Working with Release Management.
•Service Level Package: Lists service level packages linked to this record. Refer to Working with Service Level Packages.
•Service Desk Category: Refer to Creating a Service Desk Category below.
•Cost Driver: Lists cost drivers linked to this record. Refer to Working with Cost Drivers.
•Distribution: Lists distributions linked to this record. Refer to About Distribution.
•Allocation: Lists allocations linked to this record. Refer to Service Allocation.
4.Enter the following information under the Details tab.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Name | A unique name for the service. |
| Team | The responsible team. |
| Owner | The owner. |
| Type Of Service | The service type. |
|
Target Availability |
The target availability for this service. Enter a percentage. |
|
Status |
The status. Planned: Draft state; prior to the design state. Design: Work in progress; service is being designed. Transition: Design phase complete; preparing to update the status to production. Production: Service is in use. Retired: Service is no longer in use. |
|
Category |
A category or collection for this service. |
|
Hours of Operation |
A defined value that indicates the time period for the availability of this service. |
|
CI Map |
Displays the CI map. |
|
Summary |
A brief summary of the service. |
|
Description |
A description of what the service includes. |
|
Value Proposition |
Information about the benefits of this service to the customer. |
|
Price Description |
Information about the pricing structure. |
5.Click Save.
After creating a service, if you are a vendor using underpinning contracts; Refer to Creating a Vendor).
After creating a service, create a team (if you are using operational level agreements; Refer to Working with Teams) and a vendor (if you are using underpinning contracts; Refer to Creating a Vendor).
Creating a Service Desk Category
The system lists request offerings in categories. These categories are a convenient way to organize the services that you offer.
1.Log in to the application as a service owner.
2.Open the Services Request workspace.
3.Open a record.
4.Click the Service Desk Category tab. the system displays a list of categories.
5.From the tab toolbar, click New. The system displays the New Category dialog box.
6.In the Category field, enter the name of the category.
7.Click Save.
The category that you created appears as an option in the category menu for the selected service in the Incident workspace.
Viewing and Editing Agreements
You can view which agreements have been attached to certain services. You can modify some of the details of these agreements in the Services workspace.
1.Log in to the application as a service owner.
2.Open the Services Request workspace.
3.Open a service.
4.Click the Service Agreements tab. The system displays a list of agreements of the following types:
•OLA: Operational level agreements.
•SLA: Service level agreements.
•UC: Underpinning contracts.
5.Highlight an agreement from the list.
6.Click Go to to see the details.
7.Modify any fields as needed.
8.Click Save.
Viewing Service Costs
Costs added to a service automatically show up in the Cost Item tab.
1.Log in to the application using the Administrator role.
2.Open the CI Service workspace.
3.Open a service.
4.Click the Cost Item tab.
5.Observe the task at the bottom of the list. You might need to refresh the window to see the latest results.
About Creating Teams
Only administrators can create teams. For information about how to create a team, refer to Working with Teams.