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Tivoli Change Management administration |
Creating change categories |
In Tivoli Change Management, categories are a
classification system for changes. Users are required to specify a change category when
creating a change, a model, or schedule blackout. It also enables, but does not require, the user
to select a change category when adding a business rule or exporting changes, models, or
rules. As system administrator, you must create and maintain the hierarchy of change categories for your organization. To create a change category hierarchy, do the following:
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The Change Category Manager dialog box |
You use the Change Category Manager dialog box
to create and maintain change categories and the change category hierarchy of your
organization. Tivoli Change Management users select the appropriate change category from
the Change Category Manager dialog box when creating a change, model, or schedule blackout to either
of these items. The Change Category dialog box contains these tabs:
To access the Change Category Manager dialog box, do one of the following:
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Creating root level change categories |
The first step in creating the change category
hierarchy is establishing the main or root level categories. The root level categories
should be the broadest level of categories. To add the root level categories:
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Creating child level change categories |
You can classify the changes in each of your
root level change categories using smaller, more specific categories. The more specific
categories are considered children of the root categories. Each child category can also be a parent to further child categories. For example, if Hardware is one of your root level change categories, the next level might include more specific types of hardware changes, such as:
The Hardware Installation category could, in turn, be the parent of more specific types of hardware installations, such as:
To add a change category as a child of another category:
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