Adding related asset to business continuity plan

[jhammond944]

I created a BIA and imported the primary and related assets to the plan.  However, the business unit decided to add a new vendor for the dependency assessment in the BIA.  This has been done, but it doesn't come across to the plan.  Is there a way to get added information to populate across from the BIA to the plan?

[Community Alums]

Hi @jhammond944 ,

You can use the Scope section to add.

1. Navigate to Business Continuity > Business Continuity Workspace.
2. Click the lists icon ( ).
3. Click In Draft state in the Planning list.
4. Click the link to the plan record in the Name column.
5. Click the Scope tab.
   If the plan is created from a plan template, you can view the primary elements defined in the plan template.
6. To add new scope to the plan, click Add.
7. On the Add Items modal, select the plan asset.
8. Click Add.
   Assets that are displayed in the Add Items modal belong to the element definition type identified in the Primary element recovered field of the plan template.

   If an asset has an approved BIA attached to it while adding the plan asset, then the approved BIA is automatically added in the BIA column of the asset.

   If the BIA is attached to the plan scope, then you cannot edit the RTO and RPO as they are values populated from the BIA.

   Note:

   • If the BIA application is installed, then RTO and RPO fields are visible and non-editable. BIA field is visible and editable. You can attach a BIA by clicking the link BIA icon ( ).
   • If BIA is not installed, then RTO and RPO fields are visible and editable.
   • If an approved BIA is attached to the plan, then RTO, RPO, and BIA fields are populated with values and they are read only and non-editable.
9. To update a plan asset or to link a BIA to it, click the asset in the Name column.
   1. Click the link BIA icon ( ).
      If there is an approved BIA for the asset, then the BIA is automatically attached to the asset when you click the link. If you have adjusted the RTO and RPO values based on the criticality of an asset, then the Adjusted RTO and Adjusted RPO values take precedence over the system-calculated RTO and RPO values. The adjusted RTO and RPO values are displayed in the Recovery Time Objective and Recovery Point Objective fields when you click  .
   2. Click Save.
10. To remove an asset from the plan list, select the item and click Remove.

When you are in the planning stage, if you have scoped the BIA-dependent item and added it as the scope, then the dependencies of the scoped item are available as Related Assets. Also, the plans existing for these assets are available as Related Plans. In addition, you can add new plans also. For example, a plan is created for Data Center: NYC, along with which the related plans of the related assets such as SAP on-premise application and Facility: New York (created in BIA) also move in to the planning phase automatically. In addition to the items that came from the BIA, you can also add new assets manually to the plan.

In the Recovery Tasks tab of a plan, you can also refer to a different plan and select the plan from the list of related plans.

[jhammond944]

This doesn't address my issue.  The primary scope business processes are in the plan.  What I need to occur is that there was a new vendor added in the assessment in the BIA, but this is not coming across as a related asset in the plan.

[Aswin6]

Hi jhammond944,

The feature to update the dependencies from the CMDB, BIAs to the plans was added to the Washington store release of the BCM app. 

Please refer the documentation - https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/washingtondc-governance-risk-compliance/page/product/grc-business...

Thanks,
Aswin