Run diagnostics tests for a CI or a service

As a customer service agent, review, diagnose, resolve, and close a service case for the service-related issue experienced by the customer.

Before you begin

Role required: admin

About this task

This task helps you to understand how to execute relevant preconfigured diagnostics tests for a specific CI or a service, without any incident or case. This helps the agents to test a CI or Service standalone. If any issues are found, resolution shall follow the standard process like incident or case as applicable. This task doesn't enable the agent to create any repair or diagnostic task, but only help to run the required test on the fly without any case or incident.

Procedure

1. Navigate to Workspaces > Service Operations Workspace.
2. Select the List icon.
3. Navigate to CMDB > Services.
4. Open a service that is in the New or Open state.

   

5. Diagnose the service to identify the root-cause of the problem.

   The decision table can be configured to control the visibility of the Diagnose and Run Diagnostics contextual panel tabs. For more information about decision tables, see Decision Tables.

   1. To generate the test results, select Run diagnostics from the contextual panel.
   2. In the run diagnostics panel, select CI/Service from the drop-down list.

      The drop-down list shows the current product inventory and all the child inventories.

      To set up test definitions, see Setting up test definitions.

   3. Expand the cards in Available test suite.
      To set up test group, see Setting up a test group.
   4. In the manual test, select single/multiple tests.
      In the automated test, selection of test isn’t available. The subflow that is configured for the test group would be invoked.
   5. Select Configure.
   6. In the Configure tests, fill the test required characteristics form to activate the Run test button.
   7. Optional: In the test, select an option either to Run test now or to Schedule test for later.
   8. Select Run test.
   9. In the diagnose tab, expand the Test results and review the results of the tests conducted in the previous step, checking whether each test is passed or failed.

      The maximum number of rows to the group is limited to 20 rows. To configure the maximum number of rows more than 20 rows to the group, see Presentational List Usage.

   10. Optional: Select the View Details icon for a specific test result to review its details.
   11. Optional: Select the Rerun test icon for a specific test result to run it again.
   12. Select Continue.
6. Review the details of the service in the Details tab.
7. View the service-related records in the Related records tab.