Legacy: Major incident overview dashboard
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Summary of Legacy: Major Incident Overview Dashboard
The Major Incident Overview module offers two versions of the Performance Analytics (PA) Dashboard, allowing users to view key major incident information efficiently. With the Xanadu release, the previous Major Incident Overview dashboard is deprecated, and users are encouraged to utilize the Major Incident Dashboard to access metrics related to both open and closed major incidents. Access is granted to users with specific roles such as itil, snincidentwrite, majorincidentmanager, or communicationmanager.
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Key Features
- Dashboard Versions: Normal and Premium versions are available. The normal version requires activation of the Incident Management - Major Incident Management plugin, while the premium version necessitates activation of the Performance Analytics – Content Pack for Major Incident Management.
- Navigation: Dashboards can be accessed via Incident > Major Incidents > Overview or Self-Service > Dashboard > Major Incident Overview.
- UI Components: Includes controls for creating and managing dashboards, an overview page, a choice list for selecting dashboards, widget management, sharing options, and configuration settings for layout modifications.
- Tabs: Various tabs display metrics on active major incidents, including those nearing breach, overdue, unassigned, and opened or resolved on the current day.
Key Outcomes
The Premium Major Incident Overview dashboard adds enhanced functionality, such as:
- Process KPIs: Displays metrics like active major incidents, resolved incidents, and average resolution times.
- Interactive Filters: Enables filtering incidents by category, priority, assignment group, and state for refined analysis.
By utilizing these dashboards, ServiceNow customers can efficiently monitor and manage major incidents, ensuring timely responses and resolutions while gaining insights into overall incident management performance.
Major Incident Overview module provides two versions of the Performance Analytics (PA) Dashboard to review major incident information at a glance.
Starting in Xanadu release, the Major incident overview dashboard is deprecated. Users can use Major incident dashboard to view the process and communication related metrics for Open and Closed major incidents.
Users with itil, sn_incident_write, major_incident_manager or communication_manager role can access the dashboard.
The two versions of the Performance Analytics (PA) Dashboard are normal and premium. You must activate the Incident Management - Major Incident Management plugin (com.snc.incident.mim) to view the normal dashboard. To access the premium version of Major Incident Overview dashboard, activate Performance Analytics – Content Pack for Major Incident Management (com.snc.pa.incident.mim).
Major incident overview
Major Incident Overview module provides information on the following content:
| # | UI component | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dashboard controls | Provides options to create, duplicate, or delete a dashboard. You can copy the dashboard URL or duplicate the dashboard. In addition, you can add the dashboard in your favorite list, create a tab, or reset filters in the dashboard. |
| 2 | Dashboard overview | Takes you to the UI page where you view the recently accessed dashboard, dashboards owned or shared by you, or all the dashboards in the system. To create a new dashboard, click New. |
| 3 | Dashboard choice list | Provides options to select between different dashboards in the system. |
| 4 | Add widgets | Provides option to add widgets. You can drag to move or resize the widget on the dashboard. |
| 5 | Sharing | Provides option to specify groups, users, and roles for the dashboard. |
| 6 | Configuration | Provides the configuration pane to select a layout to snap the widgets against or to modify a layout as required. |
| 7 | Tabs |
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Major Incident Overview – Premium
- Process KPIs: Provides information on Active Major Incidents, Number of resolved major incidents, Average resolution time of Major Incidents, and New Major Incidents Vs Resolved.
- Interactive filters: Helps to filter incidents based on category, priority, assignment group, and state.