1 Actual downtime (outage) within the CR (In GMT 24HH:MM format) window 2 Is PRE-PRODuction Testing / ORT successfully completed (only for PROD CRs)? 3 Do you think this should be verified by DEV/QA (post PRODuction deployment)? 4 Who all are required from DEV/QA/L1- L2-L3 on standby? 5 Is the rollback verifiable (only for PRE- PROD CRs)? 6 Is rollback verified in PRE-PROD (only for PROD CRs) 7 What is the business benefit from this change? 8 Is the PRE-PROD architecture same as PROD? (Yes/No)
# Risk / Impact information
A Risk / Dependencies (in deployment) A.1 Describe rollback steps A.2 Describe Impact on other system or domain managers because of this change A.3 Provide details if any specific VMs, Devices, infrastructure etc. is required A.4 Describe if any specific testing required B Impact on customer (and for how long) B.1 What features / services will be impacted because of this change? Example: Reports generation will be affected for 20 minutes, Ticketing will be delayed for 10 minutes etc.)
# MOP (Method of Procedure)
Some guidelines to fill the below section: 1. Sample data is shown in yellow color. Please delete all the yellow text and write all the required activities along with their owner name. 2. It is responsibility of change submitter to work with other function SMEs and identify all the required activities before raising the CRs. 3. If some required activities are found to be missing then Change Submitter will be responsible for that) 4. Don’t delete the red text below # Task Resource (activity Task time Contingency Actual owner) (in GMT Time to kick Completion 24:00 hrs. rollback Time format) 1 Disable Nagios checks Write owner’s name OR NA (if not applicable) 2 Take database backup Mr. ABC 3 Take config backup Mr. XYZ
4 Bring Remedy down Mr. ABC
5 Deploy BDD Mr. XYZ 6 Bring Remedy up Mr. ABC 7 Verify services Mr. XYZ
99 Activate Nagios checks Write owner’s name
OR NA (if not applicable) # Other mandatory tasks Owner A Change CR status to COMPLETE Change Submitter B Update CMDB CMDB manager C Close CR CMDB manager (after ensuring CMDB is up-to-date)