Checklist Problem Record
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ITIL Process: ITIL V3 Service Operation - Problem Management
Checklist Category: Checklists ITIL V3 Service Operation
Source: Checklist "Problem Record" from the ITIL Process Map V3
The Problem Record contains all details of a Problem, documenting the history of the Problem from detection to resolution.
A Problem Record typically contains the following information:
- Unique ID of the Problem (usually allocated automatically by the system)
- Date and time of detection
- Problem owner
- Description of symptoms
- Affected users/ business areas
- Affected service(s)
- Prioritization, a function of the following components:
- Urgency (available time until the resolution of the Problem), e.g.
- Up to 5 working days
- Up to 2 weeks
- Up to 4 weeks
- Degree of severity (damage caused to the business), e.g.
- „High“ (interruption to critical business processes)
- „Normal“ (interruption to the work of individual employees)
- „Low“ (hindrance to the work of individual employees, continuation of work possible by means of a circumventive solution)
- Priority (for example in stages 1, 2 and 3): The result from the combination of urgency and the degree of severity
- Urgency (available time until the resolution of the Problem), e.g.
- Relationships to CIs
- Product category, usually selected from a category-tree according to the following example:
- Client PC
- Standard configuration 1
- ...
- Printer
- Manufacturer 1
- ...
- Client PC
- Problem category, usually selected from a category-tree according to the following example:
- Hardware error
- Software error
- ...
- Links to related Problem Records (if there are other outstanding Problems related to this one)
- Links to related Incident Records (if outstanding Incidents exist, whose solution depends on the solution of this Problem)
- Problem status and activity log
- Resolution and closure data
- Resolution time and date
- Closure time and date
- Closure categories (if required, revised product and Problem categorizations)