Incident rule to automatically set status to closed after 48 hours
Submitted by Paul Manfredi on Tue, 2008-04-01 10:39.
I need an incident rule that will set the status of an incident to closed, 48 hours after the status has been set to resolved by the worker. Help pls




You can do it with a
You can do it with a notification policy. I have that does it in 24 hours. You can't use an incident rule I think since that is only evaluated upon saving a ticket. The notification policy can monitor time as often as you set the schedule to run at.
I'm cool with this part,
I'm cool with this part, but to actually get the status automatically changed to closed, what type of automated action do I need to run.
Thanks
Paul
In the Automated Actions
In the Automated Actions section of the NP, add an "Edit Incident Automated Action". Add a comment like "This resolved incident has not been modified for 'N' hours and has been closed by Altiris." and set the Status ddl to Closed.
Hope this helps.
I'm not seeing a status
I'm not seeing a status ddl. Should I be seeing it in the automated action window? Under Comment I've got External ID: and Source:
"Help", said the newbie.
Make sure you scroll down
Make sure you scroll down (bar on the right). I made that exact same mistake the first time :D
No scroll bar when the
No scroll bar when the default window opens. Thanks for your help.
Paul
Hi, this part is actually
Hi, this part is actually really buggy... there is no scroll bar, but the fields ARE down there below. I was able to get to them by TABing down to them.
I'm sorry I forgot to answer your question completely in the first post. Here's what I do for the Edit Incident Automated Action.
Execute: Once per row
Incident: %DS:Ticket_Number%
Comment: Auto-close after 24-hours in Resolved status with no customer feedback.
Status: Closed
can the results be posted off as a report?
Instead of having the automated action close the ticket, can I get it to email the resolved ticket numbers to a member of staff instead?