Calculating and selecting impacts for target CIs or assets

You might want to calculate the impacts of individual target CIs or assets when a new target is added to the task, or when new CI relationships are added to the configuration management database (CMDB). After you calculate the target CI or asset impacts, you can select one or more of the impacts to record them as impacts for the target.

1. With the Change open in the Changes application, open the Impacts tab, and navigate to the Manage Impacts tab.
2. Select a task in the Implementation Tasks table. The target CIs that are associated with the task are displayed in the Targets for Task table.
3. Select a target in the Targets for Task table, and click Impacts for Selected Target to calculate the impacts for the selected target. The Selecting Impacts for a Target CI dialog opens; this dialog is populated with the resulting impacts.
4. Perform one or more of the following actions to select target CI or asset impacts:
   • Open the Calculated tab to select impacts that were calculated using the impact assessment rules.
   • Open the Historical tab to select impacts that were harvested based on historically identified impacts. Use the Configuration Items tab to select CI impacts; use the Assets tab to select Assets impacts.
   • Open the Related CIs tab to view a list of CIs that are related to the selected target CI. This information is retrieved from the configuration management database (CMDB). If you want to add one or more related CIs to the Impacts list, select these CIs and click OK.
   • Open the Related Assets tab to view a list of assets that are related to the selected target CI. This information is retrieved from the configuration management database (CMDB). If you want to add one or more related assets to the Impacts list, select these assets and click OK.