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SLAs keep all necessary information that allows the SimpleOne administrator to build a flexible and easy to manage SLM solution.
Services, Contracts, and SLAs keep all necessary information that allows the SimpleOne administrator to build a flexible and easy to manage SLM solution. These entities determine the SLM structure by establishing relationships with each other and set up a foundation for further SLA configuration with special features.
Before configuring SLAs, it is necessary to set up all Contracts and IT Services related to them.
IT Service
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Role required: service_owner. |
The Service records keep all detailed information about services such as type, description, service owner, etc. in Service Portfolio.
To set up a relationship between an IT Service and an SLA, navigate to Service Portfolio → Service
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Catalog if your IT Service is active or to the Service Portfolio → Service Pipeline if your IT Service is new or inactive. Open a desired IT Service record and fill in the fields below:
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| Service type | Y | Allows choosing one of the possible values according to the agreement type between service the supplier and customer. Available options:
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| Service Specification |
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| Y | Specify the article from the Knowledge Base, |
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| for example, SLA record, Service Description, |
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| or another one described in Service Specifications. |
Contract
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Role required: ITSM_agent. |
Contracts keep all the information about signed agreements, including the service provider, supplier, and customer with consumers.
Navigate to Contracts →
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Contracts and click New to create a new Contract record and bind it to particular articles and categories through the following fields:
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| Number | Y | A record number in the Contracts dictionary. This field is populated automatically. |
| Contract No | N | A contract number. |
| Subject | Y | A contract subject. |
| Type | N | A type of signed agreement |
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defined by one of the available values according to a concluded agreement between the parties. |
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This field is not mandatory.
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| Contract Category |
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| Y | A category your contract relates to ( |
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navigate to Contracts → Contract Category and click New to create one) |
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| Provider |
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| Y | Specify a company from the Companies list |
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| Supplier |
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| N | Specify a company from the Companies list |
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| Y | Specify a customer from the Contact list (go to Contracts → Contact and click New to create one). Any of the following types can be chosen: a company, a branch, a section, a department, a unit, a group, an employee |
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| Consumer |
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| N | Specify the end-users from the Contact list (go to Contracts → Contact and click New to create an end-user) |
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| Description | N | Specify the contract brief description. |
| Contract Status | Y | Contract current status. Available options:
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| Responsible | Y | Specify an employee responsible for the contractor support from the Employee list. |
| Start Date | N | Specify the contract start date. |
| End Date | N | Specify the contract expiry date. |
| Autoprolongation | N | Select this checkbox to make the Supplier field mandatory. For it, the Type chosen is to be UC. |
| Knowledge Base Article | N | Reference |
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| Total Cost |
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| N | Specify the contract total cost. |
When a contract is created, you can easily create an agreement related to it by clicking the New button in the Agreement related list of this contract.
SLA
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The articles that contain formal documented agreements signed by the service supplier and the customer in relation to a particular service are based in the Knowledge Base.
To add such an article to your SimpleOne solution, navigate to Knowledge Base → All Articles, push the New button, and fill in the form. The fields below determine a particular SLA article regarding an IT Service:
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| Number | Y |
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| Name | Y | A name of the Service Level Agreement |
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| Content DB | Y | A content database from the Content DBs list. |
| KB Category | N | A knowledge base category from the CB Categories list. |
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| Class | Y | Describes SLA appointment, the following possible values apply to SLAs:
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| Object Category | Y | A service category to which the article is related. The field is populated automatically after the Content DB and Content Item Class are filled. Available options are: |
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| Body | N | Submitted SLA content |
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| N | One chosen record from the Services, the field Owned by is automatically filled with the owner name from the selected service record |
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| Y | One of the possible values:
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| Published at | Y | The time the article was published. This field is populated automatically. |
| Owned by | N | Automatically filled with the service owner's name according to the service selected. |
| Metainfo | N | Fill in the field with the metadata. |
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