Configuring the behavior of child incidents when resolving, reactivating, and closing the parent Incident

SCSM supports parent child relationships for the incident class. This recipe provides the steps required for the automatic configuration of child incidents, when there is a change to the parent incident.

Getting ready

You must ensure you have successfully installed the SCSM product, are a user in the SCSM Administrators role, and have the SCSM console open.

How to do it...

There are three options you can configure for the Parent Incident settings, as follows:

  • Auto resolution of child incidents
  • Auto reactivation of child incidents
  • Status of child incidents when linked to a parent

These three options are discussed in the next section.

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