Options in the CMDB Items Explorer Pane

You can carry out some tasks relating to CMDB items using the options in the Explorer pane.

The following options are available, access to some of which depend on the settings in your security role.

Agreements	to view all the agreements where the entity, person or contract is specified in the agreement selection criteria
Availability	to view or set Availability Settings for the CMDB Item
Impact Criteria	to specify the criteria that will be used to apply an outage to a CMDB item when one or more CMDB items impacting this item are currently experiencing an outage
Clone	to create new CMDB items based on the currently displayed one
Object	to attach objects or files from Windows applications to the current CMDB item
Attributes	to type data into categories set up in the Administration module
Forms	to capture general, non-reportable, non-searchable information about the entity
Audit	to view an audit trail of the changes made to the details of the entity on screen
Version History	to view the history for the CMDB item
Depreciation	to view the depreciation information for the current CMDB Item
Linking	to view a graphical view of the other CMDB items which are linked to the CMDB item
Components	to view a graphical view of the components for a container CMDB item
Call Search	to display the Call Search window, where you can view all open calls logged against the CMDB item
Request Search	to view open requests for the CMDB item
External Resources	to view external resources such as directory server users linked to the current CMDB item
Discrepancy Reports	to view outstanding CMDB Resource Reports (reports to be reviewed) linked to the entity