[Music] hey everyone it's justin thank you for watching in this video we're continuing our conversation around business continuity management and specifically element definitions this is something you need to define when you're setting up business continuity management if you stop watching the next 30 seconds here's your big takeaway element definitions are letting you define what exactly in your configuration management database your cmdb that you're going to bring into business continuity management and associate with their business impact analysis and associate with their business continuity plans what's that look like here well on the dashboard you can already see i've got some processes some business applications that are showing on the dashboard those are the predefined elements they also show up in the business impact analysis if you see here i've got a details tab we're going to have a video on this whole feature business impact analysis but look at this applies to i've got customer portal so i can go in and i can say for this impact analysis i'm going to pick up something from the cmdb and rather than seeing the 15 000 things that are in there i can pick up pick out something that has been pre-selected defined as an element that we want to associate with our business impact analysis if i go to this continuity plan on the details tab for that i do not have reference to a configuration item or an element definition on our continuity plan it comes from our business impact analysis or we can add them manually and it shows up under scope so these are the element definitions for accounts payable some departments that are showing up under scope and they are originating from the business impact analysis and you can see there now notice i can't actually add anything to this because it hasn't been or it's already been approved so we can't change this continuity plan once it's been approved we'll cover continuity plans in full here soon but let me show you that it is possible to add scope to a draft continuity plan and here you can see i can come in and select something else from the cmdb that's been predefined that's where they show up in the application so what are they i'm going to hop over to my list view here and i've got all the element definitions that are set up in my demo environment i've got 21 of them here and you can see on the left hand side here they all kind of make sense right so i've got applications i got business capabilities and processes data centers facilities employees themselves and then we specify okay where are these coming from now i know i said cmdb like a dozen times before but notice we can even pull in things from places like this user there's a business unit table so different things coming from different places if we open up let's open up a windows server so this is looking at the table cmdb underscore ci underscore windows server so it's very specific on what it's grabbing and then we're going to pull in certain fields so that when the poor business continuity managers coming in here they're going to see the name and the os version they're not going to see all the hundreds of other attributes associated with that configuration item so we're basically kind of providing a sterile or clean lens into the scene to be to let the business continuity managers program managers viewers do their job one last thing before we go here let's click the new button and show if we were to start from scratch with nothing in there what does that look like we'll just sue demo for the world and notice here that i can select from all the different kinds of tables in the system i'm trying to think of one real quick that might not be in here let's say a story let's just see if a story is available for us to select from the list of tables again it should let me pick anything except protected tables in the system like your journal fields and stuff like that and we'd be able to bring these into our configuration management or our business continuity management so there you see i've got story and i've got story dependencies so we're basically just searching a table and then we're adding different fields from that table now those fields again kind of make it clean for the business continuity manager or program manager to come in just see the things that they need to see so we can be selective about what we add there as far as fields i won't slow this down by doing that but then most importantly i can set some conditions even when we narrow this down to a particular table or particular class of configuration items you still may want to come in here and filter that hey active is true or um the production you know status i spelled that right um i think maybe it's under status yeah status is you know there's production or a green yellow red or something oh we're looking at stories that's right so you can even come in and add filters again making this more relevant for those people that are coming in here to do their job in business continuity management so that is element definitions that's where they live in business continuity management it's for you to find them and edit them i did that all through the workspace so again bringing home that workspace is really where everything starts in the future we're going to go through those business impact analysis as continuity plans exercises and events in in detail so hopefully this was helpful if you liked the video if you found it helpful please subscribe please like share with somebody who think might be interested in configuring business continuity management and until next time don't forget to always be learning [Music] you