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Glossary

  • CAB / eCAB — Change Advisory Board (standard / emergency) for change approval.

  • CI — Configuration Item, a configuration element tracked in the CMDB.

  • CMDB — Configuration Management Database.

  • Queue — ticket container linked to a working team.

  • Composer — the ticket creation window (Composer, ticket creation).

  • Domain — functional macro-area (ITSM, HR, NOC, SOC, …) that classifies services and queues.

  • Ticket editor — the drawer where you work on a ticket (Ticket editor).

  • Issue type / Ticket type — the category that determines lifecycle and fields.

  • KEDB — Known Error Database.

  • PAM — Privileged Access Management.

  • PIR — Post-Incident Review (post-mortem).

  • Process — work model structured in stages.

  • RBAC — Role-Based Access Control.

  • RCA — Root Cause Analysis.

  • SLA — Service Level Agreement (target times); some schemes are pause-aware.

  • Tenant — the customer/organisation you are working on ({TENANT}).

  • Workflow — the sequence of statuses and transitions of a ticket type.

The platform uses a single priority/severity scale from P1 (highest) to P5 (lowest). For Major Incidents the P0–P3 classification also applies (Major Incident classification): P0 Critical/Catastrophic, P1 High, P2 Medium, P3 Low.