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Raising an incident

Raising an incident

You can raise an incident only from alerts generated for one endpoint.

You can raise an incident in the following ways:

  • In Incidents & Events > Incidents > All Incidents, click Create New in the toolbar. This opens the Create New Incident pane.
  • In Incidents & Events > All Events, right-click an event and select Raise Incident. This opens the Raise Incident pane with the applicable fields filled in, such as the Affected Endpoint.

Following is a description of the options available in the Create New Incident and Raise Incident pane.

Incident Reporter

The admin account raising the incident. This field cannot be changed.

Incident Category

Select a category from the dropdown list.

Severity

Select a severity level from the dropdown list.

Status

Select a status from the dropdown list.

Affected Endpoint

In the Raise Incident pane, the affected endpoint is filled in and cannot be changed.

In the Create New Incident pane, select the affected endpoint from the dropdown list.

Description

If you wish, enter a description.

Raising an incident

You can raise an incident only from alerts generated for one endpoint.

You can raise an incident in the following ways:

  • In Incidents & Events > Incidents > All Incidents, click Create New in the toolbar. This opens the Create New Incident pane.
  • In Incidents & Events > All Events, right-click an event and select Raise Incident. This opens the Raise Incident pane with the applicable fields filled in, such as the Affected Endpoint.

Following is a description of the options available in the Create New Incident and Raise Incident pane.

Incident Reporter

The admin account raising the incident. This field cannot be changed.

Incident Category

Select a category from the dropdown list.

Severity

Select a severity level from the dropdown list.

Status

Select a status from the dropdown list.

Affected Endpoint

In the Raise Incident pane, the affected endpoint is filled in and cannot be changed.

In the Create New Incident pane, select the affected endpoint from the dropdown list.

Description

If you wish, enter a description.