Manage Incidents

Enterprise Manager Mobile provides an easy-to-use interface that puts the complete incident management lifecycle in the palm of your hand. This short example shows you how to use Enterprise Manager Mobile to manage a critical severity incident.

  1. Navigate to Incident Manager. Tap Incident Manager (bell icon).


    incident manager

    Alternatively, you can drill down to specific incidents, problems, and jobs for monitored targets directly from the Enterprise Summary screen.

  2. Drill down to view a list of incidents of a specific severity. For example, tap Critical to view all incidents with Critical severity.

    Note:

    You can also drill down on incidents directly from the Enterprise Summary screen.


    incident list

    Optionally, you can click Filter to filter the list of incidents/problems/events by Last Updated, custom Date Range (Note: This will override the date range specified in the original view definition.), Resolution, or Category.

  3. Tap on a critical incident of interest to view details. The icons in the bottom navigation bar change to reflect the various operations you can perform on this incident/problem.


    incident details

    Icon Action
    icon-acknowledge Acknowledge the incident/problem/job.
    icon-annotate Add a comment to the incident/problem.
    icon-share incident Share the incident/problem details with another administrator.
    icon-incident manage Allows you to manage the incident. You can:
    • Change the status of the incident.
    • Set the priority: Urgent, Very High, High, Medium, Low
    • Escalate the issue: Level 1 - Level 4
    • Specify/Change the owner.
    • Add a comment.
    icon-incident state Allows you to edit the status of the incident.
    • Edit the incident/problem summary.
    • Suppress the incident/problem.
    • Clear the incident/problem.
  4. Modify the incident summary.


    graphic displays the edit summary option

  5. Acknowledge and take ownership of the incident.


    acknowledge incident

  6. Add a comment to the incident details.


    add a comment to an incident

  7. Share the incident information with a fellow administrator to help with the resolution.


    Share the incident with another administrator