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Viewing Incident Manager

You can select to display incidents by all AIM organizations or by ones that you have created. For more information about creating AIM organizations, see Advanced Insight Solutions Overview.

Any incident displayed in bold in Incident Manager indicates that incident has been detected, assigned, or flagged to the user since the last time you logged into AIM.

Note: If you are running AIM in standalone mode and navigate to the Proactive Case Manager page, the follow message appears: Proactive cases can not be submitted because there are no organizations that either contain devices or have valid credentials. Proactive Case Manager is disabled when AIM is not connected to JSS (Standalone mode).

To view the Incident Manager table, do the following:

Incident Manager Page Descriptions

This section describes the parts of the Incident Manager page.

Filtering Incident Manager Table Data

The Filter By and On drop-down list boxes at the top of the Incident Manager table allow you to display specific incident data necessary for you to monitor devices on your network. You can filter by defect, device, device group, and organization. Filtered data is displayed in the Statistics dashboard and the Incident Manager table.

To filter Incident Manager table data to show incidents by specific criteria, follow these steps:

  1. In the Filter By drop-down list box. select the filter category This action automatically displays the specific filter options in the On drop-down list box. See Table 62.

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    Table 62 describes the operation of the Filter By and On drop-down list boxes for filtering Incident Manager table data.

    Table 62: Filter By and On Drop-Down List Box Operation

    Filter By drop-down list box

    On drop-down list box

    Nothing

    The On drop-down list box is blank, and no filtering occurs.

    Defect

    Displays the list of all incident defect types on which you can filter.

    Device

    Displays the list of all devices names managed by AIS on which you can filter incident data.

    Device Group

    Displays the list of all device group names on which you can filter incident data.

    Organization

    Displays the list of all organization names on which you can filter incident data.

  2. In the On drop-down list box, select the filter option.

Submitting a Case Request

From the Incident Manager table, you can easily submit a case request to Juniper Support Systems (JSS). After a case ID is assigned, the Case ID appears in the following places:

To submit a case request, follow these steps:

  1. From Incident Manager, select an incident for which you want to submit a case request. The Submit Case button is enabled.

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  2. Click Submit Case. You see the following message:

    Successfully submitted case to Juniper: Create Case returned transaction ID

    Thereafter, Incident Manager displays the status as Submitted. Then the status changes to Created and the case ID appears in the Case ID column. Finally, the incident is bold.

    The incident case ID appears in the Status cell.

Creating a Policy

For detailed information about creating a reaction policy, see Creating Reaction Policies.

Flagging An Incident to a User

Flagging an incident informs an AIM user who might be impacted or needs to be aware of an incident.

You can flag an incident to a user. Flagging an incident, displays that incident in Incident Manager table.

Incidents that are bold indicate that they have been flagged to your since the last time you logged into AIM.

To flag an incident to a user, follow these steps:

  1. From the Incident Manager table, click the incident synopsis link. The Incident Details page appears.

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  2. On the Incident Details page, click Flag to Users. The Flag to Users page appears.

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  3. On the Flag to Users page, select the users to whom you want to flag the incident.
  4. Click Save. The flag appears in the incident Flag column in the Incident Manager table.

Clearing a Flag

To clear a flag to a user, follow these steps:

  1. In the Incident Manager table, select the incident with the flag that you want to delete. The Clear Flag button is enabled.

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  2. Click Clear Flag. The flag is removed, and that incident will no longer appear in the Incidents table in My AIM Home.

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Viewing Incidents by Organization

You can view the incidents that have been collected for a specified AIM organization.

To view incidents by AIM organization, do the following:

Viewing Incident Details (Incident for Device)

To view incident details, click the incident Synopsis link in the Incidents table. The Incident for Device page appears.

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The Incident for Details page lets you perform the following AIM actions:

For more information about the Incident Detail (Incident for Device), see Incident Details (Incident for Device) Page Description

Incident Details (Incident for Device) Page Description

Table 63 describes the fields on the Incident for Device page.

Table 63: Incident Details (Incident for Device) Command Button Descriptions

Button Name

Description

Privileges

Enabled/Disabled

Results

Submit Case

Submits the selected Incident to Juniper so that a JTAC case will be created. Note that this action is only valid if only one incident is selected and if that incident has not already been submitted to the JSS.

AIM User

Enabled when you select an incident.

Case ID submitted message appears.

Save Changes

Saves changes of any modified fields. Priority and E-mail List cannot be modified if the incident has already been submitted to JSS.

AIM User

Always enabled

Saves changes to AIM database.

Create Policy

Initiates creation of a Reaction Policy. If any Incidents are selected, the policy created will be scoped to just those incidents specified. If no Incidents are selected, then the policy will be applied to all the Incidents in the system.

AIM User

Always enabled

Displays Reaction Policies page.

Flag to Users

Sets which user the incident is flagged for attention and review.

AIM User

Enabled when you select an incident.

Removes the flag.

View JMB

Displays detailed information about the selected incident.

AIM User

Enabled when you select an incident.

 

Displays the View JMB page

Table 64 describes the columns in the Incident Manager table.

Table 64: Incident Details (Incident for Device) Table Column Descriptions

Column

Description

Range/Length

Default

Priority

Indicates the priority of the selected incident:

  • 1—Critical
  • 2—High
  • 3—Medium
  • 4—Low

1-4

Set by the device. The priority can be overridden by a reaction policy.

Status

The JSS case status of this incident.

Initial, Submitted, Created, and Updated

Sent by JSS.

Case ID

The case ID used by the JSS system. This field provides a link to navigate to the JSS Case Management page.

N/A

Empty until a case is created.

Host ID

Unique identifier representing the specific incident.

N/A

Set by the JUNOS system or AIM if multiple JMBs

Synopsis

Text description of the incident

N/A

Set by the JUNOS system

Platform

Indicates the device platform on which the incident occurred

N/A

Set by the JUNOS system

Problem Description

A description of the incident specified by the device

N/A

Set by the JUNOS system

Release

Release of JUNOS software running on the device

N/A

Set by the JUNOS system

Version

Version of JUNOS software running on the device

N/A

Set by the JUNOS system

Email List

List of e-mail addresses to be sent a message when a case is submitted to JSS

65535 characters

You set the e-mail list in AIM general settings

Received

Time that the incident was detected by AIM

Date and time

N/A

Owner

User that has currently been assigned ownership of this incident

Any valid user login for AIM

Bland

Owner Status

Incident owner’s status regarding the resolution of the incident

Unassigned, Assigned, In progress, and Completed

Unassigned

Flagged to Users

List of users to which the current incident has been flagged or notified

N/A

Blank

Viewing Incident Juniper Message Bundle (JMB)

The Juniper Message Bundle (JMB) contains the information that JSS needs to analyze and resolve cases and to prevent the incident from reoccurring. For more information about the JMB, see JMB Contents.

To view an incident’s Juniper message bundle, follow these steps:

  1. From My AIM Home or Incident Manager, click the incident synopsis link. The Incident detail page appears.
  2. On the Incident detail page, click View JMB. The JMB detail page appears. Image s001210.gif

Assigning an Incident Owner

To assign an incident to an AIM user, follow these steps:

  1. From the Incident Manager table, click an incident Synopsis link. The Incident Detail page appears.

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  2. From the Owner drop-down list box select an AIM user.
  3. Click Save Changes. The incident appears in the Incidents table in My AIM Home for the incident owner.

Changing Incident Owner Status

To change incident owner status, follow these steps:

  1. From the Incident Manager table, click an incident Synopsis link. The Incident Detail page appears.

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  2. From the Owner Status drop-down list box select a status option—Unassigned, Assigned, In Progress, or Completed.
  3. Click Save Changes. The incident appears in the Incidents table in My AIM Home for the incident owner.

Deleting an Incident

To delete an incident from the Incidents table, follow these steps:

  1. In the Incident Manager table, select the incident(s) you want to delete. This action enables the Delete button.
  2. Click Delete. The selected incidents are removed from the AIS database.

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