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# Assets and plans

# Assets and plans related to BCP {#ariaid-title1}

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## Summary of Assets and plans related to BCP

This content explains how ServiceNow enables you to identify and manage assets and plans related to a Business Continuity Plan (BCP).
It highlights the integration between the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) and Business Impact Analysis (BIA) to streamline dependency assessments and recovery planning.
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## Key Features

* **Related Assets Identification:** Assets linked to business processes or locations within the primary scope of a BCP are automatically identified through their relationships in the BIA, leveraging CMDB configuration item data.
* **Automatic Asset Inclusion:** When creating a plan, related assets such as business processes, critical applications, datacenters, or location-based resources are included based on the plan's primary element and scope.
* **Recovery Metrics Integration:** The plan displays critical recovery parameters for each related asset---Impact Analysis, Recovery Tier, Recovery Time Objective (RTO), and Recovery Point Objective (RPO)---which are sourced from the linked BIA details.
* **Read-Only Recovery Data:** Recovery requirements on the plan are read-only and synchronized with the BIA's finalized or adjusted values to maintain consistency.
* **Related Plans Aggregation:** Plans associated with any related assets are automatically pulled into the main plan's Related Plans tab, facilitating coordinated recovery efforts.
* **Recovery Task Sequencing:** Planners can define the execution order of recovery tasks across the primary plan and its dependent subplans, enhancing structured recovery workflows.

## Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

By utilizing these capabilities, you can ensure that your BCP accurately reflects all critical dependencies, enabling more effective recovery planning. The automatic synchronization with BIA data reduces manual errors and keeps recovery objectives up to date. Additionally, the ability to link and sequence related plans and tasks supports comprehensive and coordinated business continuity execution.  
You can identify the assets and plans related to a business continuity plan. You can then recover the assets in your planning stage. Reuse the configuration item relationship data that flow from CMDB to business impact analysis
(BIA) during dependency assessment to identify the assets in your plan.

## Related assets {#related-assets-related-plans__section_c5t_fzv_qxb}

If you have added business process or location as an item in Primary scope, and scoped item is related to BIA, all related assets of the BIA are listed in Related assets.

In other words, the CMDB configuration item added as a dependency in the business impact analysis is pulled into the plan as a related asset. The source of these related assets is displayed as the business impact analysis.

When you create a plan, you also select a primary element that the plan covers. Based on the scope in the plan or the primary element of the plan, the application adds related assets and related plans during the planning phase. These
items could be business processes, critical business applications, datacenters, or resources working from a location. All these dependencies if stored in the business impact analysis are copied over to the plan in Related assets in addition to other dependencies added while creating the BIA.

The example shows the primary scope and related assets for a business continuity plan.

Along with each related asset, the Related assets panel also displays the Impact analysis, Recovery tier, Recovery time objective (RTO), and
Recovery point objective (RPO) of the asset. The Primary scope panel shows the same information for the primary element. These values are copied from the Results section of the
Details tab of the business impact analysis that is linked to the asset. The plan reflects the same recovery requirements that were established during the business impact analysis. If a finalized or adjusted RTO
or RPO value exists on the business impact analysis, that value is shown instead of the system-calculated value. These fields are read-only on the plan and are updated whenever the business impact analysis changes or the plan
dependencies are refreshed. For information about these fields, see [View business impact analysis details](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/9NB7Us2HK6HOWnauD_g~sQ "Use the Details tab to view the general information of the business impact analysis. You can also adjust the recovery time objective and recovery point objective results of the primary element as per your requirement.").

## Related plans {#related-assets-related-plans__section_a3h_nzv_qxb}

After the assets are copied over to the plan, plans attached to any of the related assets are automatically pulled and listed on the Related Plans tab. Assets in the plan are the entities that are to be
recovered by the plan during the event. When the related plans are pulled into the planning phase, you can also create the recovery tasks. As a planner, you can set a sequence to the execution of the recovery tasks of the main plan and
its dependent subplans.