Select or Deselect an SLA

An SLA (Service Level Agreement) is a written agreement between a service provider and its customers. The SLA describes one or more commitments and the escalation actions or notifications associated with each commitment.

Use the Select/Deselect SLAs dialog box to select an SLA for or remove an SLA from a record. Adding or removing an SLA on a record causes the system to recalculate any target contact, start, and finish dates and activate or deactivate any escalations associated with the added or removed SLA.

Note: Before you can apply an SLA, the record must have a site defined.

To select an SLA for a record:

  1. Display the record for which you want to select an SLA.

  2. From the Select Action menu, select Select/Deselect SLA. The system displays the Select/Deselect SLA dialog box. This dialog box lists any SLA(s) already applied to the record.

  3. Click New Row . The Row Details display.

  4. In the SLA field, enter a value or click Detail Menu . Select one of the following choices:

  5. Choose Select Value. The system displays the Select SLA dialog box.

    1. In the Select SLA dialog box, filter the list of available SLAs. You can select Show Filtered SLAs to display only SLAs that are applicable (based on the calendar and SQL clause for the SLA) to the current record. Or select Show All SLAs to display all active SLAs in the database that could be applicable to the current record (the system ignores the calendar and SQL clause for the SLA).

    2. Select the SLA you want to apply to the record.

  1. Click OK. The system applies the SLA and fills the Target Start and Target Finish date fields. The SLA Applied? check box is also selected.

  2. Click Save Problem .

Note:  Depending on how your system administrator has configured the system, you may or may not be able to apply multiple SLAs to a record.

To deselect or remove an SLA on a record:

  1. Display the record for which you want to deselect (remove) an SLA.

  2. From the Select Action menu, select Select/Deselect SLA. The system displays the Select/Deselect SLA dialog box, which lists the SLA(s) applied to the current record.

  3. Click Mark Row for Delete for each SLA you want to remove from the record.

  4. Click OK to remove the SLA(s) from the current record.

Note:  Deselecting an SLA removes its association with the current record. It does not delete the SLA record from the database.

See Also

Apply an SLA

View Service Level Agreements

Service Level Agreements