Activate and configure Service Mapping for top-down discovery

  • Release version: Zurich
  • Updated July 31, 2025
  • 1 minute to read
  • A top-down discovery provides a list of CIs and their interrelationships. This information is useful for managing software services and hardware issues that are associated with alerts.

    Before you begin

    Role required: evt_mgmt_admin

    About this task

    In Event Management, Service Mapping relationships appear on alerts. You can view the related CI and other information in the Event Management dashboard. The mapping relationships appear in a service map with the generated alert, any CIs that are bound to the alert, and all related CIs.

    Procedure

    Use Service Mapping to get top-down discovery information.
    Service Mapping, which is closely related to Event Management, provides tools to discover the relationships between network, hardware, software, storage, and other devices.