Incident manager interface description

Information about Incident manager events is displayed in the events table located in the upper part of the window interface:

You can group, filter, and sort the events. The list displays the event status, and you can take the event into processing from there (see Events processing).

When you open the Incident manager, the events Monitoring mode opens by default, which displays only the current events that require processing. To view all events of the Incident manager, go to the Archive.

Viewing current events

The following information is displayed for each event by default:

  1. Indicator of the presence of the camera associated with the event .
  2. Incident handler—the name of the Incident handler that processes the event.
  3. Event status.
  4. Object type.
  5. Object ID.
  6. Object name.
  7. Action—description of the event.
  8. Time the event occurs.
  9. Priority.
  10. Computer—the name of the computer from which the event is received.
  11. Time (sec)—the number of seconds since the event occurs.
  12. Last comment—only the last comment entered while processing the event.
  13. All comments—all comments entered while processing the event.

To change the displayed information columns, do the following:

  1. Click the button (1).
  2. Set the checkboxes next to the columns that you want to display (2). To set checkboxes next to all columns, click the Select all button (3); to clear the checkboxes, click the Deselect all button (4).
  3. Click the Apply button (5). To cancel the changes, click the Cancel button (6).

Event statuses

By default, the event with the Waiting for handling status gets to the incident manager. Subsequently, the event can receive the following statuses, depending on the operator's actions (see Events processing):

  1. Acknowledged. This status is displayed if an event is taken into processing and is currently being processed.
  2. Suspended. This status is displayed if event processing is started and not completed but suspended.
  3. Taken by others/<Last name of the operator who took the event into processing>. This status is displayed if the event is being processed by another operator. 
  4. Suspended by others. This status is displayed if event processing is started and not completed but suspended by another operator.
  5. Escalated. This status is displayed if the event is escalated to another operator.
    The following options are available:
    1. Escalated/Suspended by others—status immediately after escalation.
    2. Escalated/Taken by others—the escalated event is taken into processing by another operator.

      Depending on the incident manager settings, when an event is escalated, it can not change its status but disappear from the list for those who escalated the event.

  6. Escalated/<Last name of the operator who escalated the event>. This status is displayed to the operator to whom the event is escalated.
  7. Escalated/Acknowledged. This status is displayed to the operator to whom the event is escalated when they take it into processing.

Grouping events in the list

If the event grouping in the list is enabled in the settings (see Configuring events grouping in Incident manager), the events in the list are grouped by object type / object ID / event type / logic ID.

To view the events within the group, click the button.

Depending on the settings, when you expand a group, either the first event or all events of the group are displayed.

Sorting events

To sort events alphabetically, click on the name of the required column upon the values of which you want to sort.

Filtering events

To filter out and display specific events, do the following:

  1. Click the Filters button (1).
  2. Apply the filter in one of the following ways:
    1. Set the checkboxes next to those values in the columns by which you want to apply the filter (2). As a result, only those objects that match all the filter criteria at the same time are displayed. To clear all selected checkboxes, click the Reset button (5).

      If you want to display the events assigned to the current operator or other operators, you must set the checkbox next to the Assigned to me or Assigned to others value in the Assigned column, respectively. If you want to display the events assigned to both the current operator and other operators, set the checkboxes next to both the Assigned to me and Assigned to others values.

    2. From the Filter mode drop-down list (3), select the search criterion:
      1. All words.
      2. Any of words.
      3. Substring.
    3. In the Text filter field, enter the object name, object ID, or the action of the event (for example, Activated) by which you want to apply the filter (4). You must not enter the full object name, object ID, or action. The filter displays all found matches based on the value entered in the Text filter field. To delete the entered value, click the Cancel button (6).
    4. Apply the filter to both the checkboxes and text at the same time. To do this, enter the object name, object ID, or action (4) in the Text filter field, and set the checkboxes next to the column values by which you want to apply the filter (2). As a result, events that match both the entered text and the selected checkboxes are filtered out. To clear all selected checkboxes and delete the entered value in the field, click the Cancel button (6).
  3. Click the Apply button (7).

As a result, objects and events that match all selected filter criteria are displayed at a time. For example, if you set the checkboxes next to the Acknowledged and Assigned to me statuses, then all work events that are assigned to the current user are displayed.

If you set all the checkboxes in the Statuses column, it means the same as if none of them is set. The same applies to the Assigned column.

Example of applying the event filter by the object ID:

You can also configure the filter using the SETUP_FILTER reaction in the IIDK interface (see INC_MANAGER Incident manager).

Events archive

To go to the events archive, click the button on the top panel. As a result, the list of archived events opens:

In the event archive, you can do the same actions as in the event monitoring mode: apply filters, use the Close and Close all buttons, generate an interim report, and select columns to display them in the table. Besides that, on the top panel you can set the parameters for displaying the archive:

where:

To return to the current events, click the button.