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Define a priority lookup rule for incidents

Define the impact and urgency of an Operational Technology incident to calculate its priority. You can then use the priority calculation to prioritize your work and to drive service level agreements (SLAs) in your organization.

Before you begin

Role required: ot_incident_admin

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > Industrial Workspace Admin > Operational Technology Incident Management > Priority Lookup Rules.

  2. Select New.

  3. On the form, fill in the fields.

    FieldDescription
    ImpactMeasure of the effect of an incident on business processes.
    UrgencyMeasure how long the resolution can be delayed until an incident has a significant business impact.
    PriorityOption that is based on the impact and urgency. The priority identifies how quickly the OT engineer should address the task.
    ApplicationScope of the rules. The scope defines whether the rules are available for all applications or for scoped applications.
    ActiveOption to define whether the rule is active or not.
    OrderOrder in which the rules appear in the priority lookup list. This field indicates which rule to execute first.

    Note:

    The priority is calculated according to the sample data lookup rules in the following table.

    ImpactUrgencyPriority
    1 - High1 - High1 - Critical
    1 - High2 - Medium2 - High
    1 - High3 - Low3 - Moderate
    2 - Medium1 - High2 - High
    2 - Medium2 - Medium3 - Moderate
    2 - Medium3 - Low4 - Low
    3 - Low1 - High3 - Moderate
    3 - Low2 - Medium4 - Low
    3 - Low3 - Low5 - Planning

    By default, the Priority field is read-only and must be set by selecting the Impact and Urgency values. To change how the priority is calculated, you can either alter the priority lookup rules or disable the Priority is managed by Data Lookup - set as read-only UI policy and create their own business logic.

  4. Select Submit.

Parent Topic:Configuring Operational Technology Incident Management