Business Impact Manager design checklist

Table 1. Business Impact Manager design checklist

Complete	Task	Description	Related documentation
o	Define relevant business processes.	Determine the business processes to model.	“Designing business impact processing”
o	Create a business topology.	Create business elements to model the business processes. Define the expectations of the model and the events it should analyze.	“Business topology”
o	Assign weights to the elements of the topology.	This step is optional but allows you to assign a value to measure the impact of events that occur in the topology. The weights of impacted elements are summed in the root-cause event.	“Weights: Impacts of issues in the topology”
o	Choose a method for importing information.	If the topology is small, use the Topology Builder Console. For larger topologies, use one or more topology files.	“Importing information”