Monday, 30 July 2018

Incident, Problem, Change, Event and Release- IT Infrastructure

Event: An event can be defined as any change of state that has significance for the management of a configuration item (CI) or IT service.

Incident: An ‘incident’ is defined as an unplanned interruption to an IT service or reduction in the quality of an IT service or a failure of a CI that has not yet impacted an IT service.

Problem: A ‘problem’ as the underlying cause of one or more incidents.

Change: The ITIL definition of a change is ‘the addition, modification or removal of anything that could have an effect on IT services’.

Release: A ‘release unit’ describes the portion of a service or IT infrastructure that is normally released as a single entity according to the organization’s release policy. The unit may vary, depending on the type(s) or item(s) of service asset or service component such as software and hardware. The actual components to be released on a specific occasion may include one or more release units, or exceptionally may include only part of a release unit. These components are grouped together into a release package for that specific release.

Now will see in Deep meaning:

Incident Management is almost firefighting, it addresses each degraded service occurrence by a quick fix. The focus is on making the service work like the way it should by all means at the shortest time possible. The Incident Management works best when it has best possible inputs from Release and Deployment Management when the actual service or the package was pushed into operations – More accurate the information is more best can the Incident Management Perform.



Event Management is the First point to look for or is the primary resource which gives first-hand information of what can be a possible degraded service or a service interruption. Events that has been analysed as a possible degraded service or has a negative impact to service gets converted to an incident.



The Service Asset and Configuration Management plays a Critical and Major Role across all the processes, In fact it serves as the base of all these processes the more robust and strong the SACM is the more output can be expected from above mentioned processes.



Change Management is involved in 3 different activities –

1. Approving a Change submitted is one – more of a routine work as there are frequent changes to CI’s

2. Another one is granting approval to a New Service or a Package even before it is built based on the Project Charter Submitted by Service Portfolio Management – Basically Change Management Reviews a Critical output of Service Portfolio Management and gives a Go or No Go based on the inputs provided

3. Last one if approving the Permanent Fixes projected as an input from Problem Management Process

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