Business impact notifications

Business Impact Manager
passes the results of its impact analysis in the form of notifications to the
Global Manager
. The
Global Manager
, in turn, combines these notifications with the notifications received from underlying
Domain Manager
s such as
IP Availability Manager
and then passes the notifications to the
Global Console
, where they are presented in a tabular form in the Notification Log Console.
Each notification consists of a set of attributes that describe properties of the notification, such as Class, Name, Event, Source, and Impact. The value in the Name attribute is the display name of the notification; “Understanding names and display names” on page 67 describes the naming formats used to create business element names. For a root-cause problem notification impacting (affecting) business elements or the infrastructure or application elements that support those business elements,
Business Impact Manager
sets the notification’s Impact attribute to the sum of the weights of the impacted elements; the larger the numeric value, the larger the impact.
The severity of a notification is reflected by its color, where red indicates the highest severity level.