<h2>About escalating incidents</h2><br/><div style="overflow-x:auto"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /><meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2025" /><meta name="generator" content="DITA-OT" /><meta name="DC.type" content="concept" /><meta name="DC.title" content="About escalating incidents" /><meta name="abstract" content="An escalation can be triggered when an incident is created with the appropriate category and sub category and the Escalate UI option is triggered within the Service Operations Workspace." /><meta name="description" content="An escalation can be triggered when an incident is created with the appropriate category and sub category and the Escalate UI option is triggered within the Service Operations Workspace." /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../product/tmt-assurance-workflows/concept/use-assurance-workflows.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../product/tmt-assurance-workflows/concept/assurance-workflows.html" /><meta name="DC.relation" scheme="URI" content="../../../product/tmt-assurance-workflows/task/escalate-incident-aw.html" /><meta name="DC.creator" content="ServiceNow" /><meta name="DC.date.created" content="2023-08-03" /><meta name="DC.date.modified" content="2023-08-03" /><meta name="DC.format" content="XHTML" /><meta name="DC.identifier" content="psew-escalate-incident" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../CSS/commonltr.css" /><title>About escalating incidents</title></head><body id="psew-escalate-incident"> <div class="breadcrumb"><a class="link" href="../../../product/tmt-assurance-workflows/concept/assurance-workflows.html" title="Deliver end-to-end support, while understanding customer impact, and offering transparent communication to all parties involved in the support process.">Proactive Service Experience Workflows</a> > </div> <h1 class="title topictitle1" id="ariaid-title1">About escalating incidents</h1> <div class="body conbody"><p class="shortdesc">An escalation can be triggered when an incident is created with the appropriate category and sub category and the <span class="ph uicontrol">Escalate UI</span> option is triggered within the <span class="ph">Service Operations Workspace</span>.</p> <p class="p">The following diagram provides a visual representation of the escalation flow.</p> <p class="p"><img class="image" id="psew-escalate-incident__image_rx5_sw5_sxb" src="../image/psew-incident-escalate-flow.png" alt="" /></p> <div class="p">The following category and sub category values are available with the base system:<ul class="ul" id="psew-escalate-incident__ul_ow1_bn5_sxb"><li class="li">Category: SD-WAN</li><li class="li">Sub category:<ul class="ul" id="psew-escalate-incident__ul_vnh_cn5_sxb"><li class="li">Link failure</li><li class="li">Device failure</li><li class="li">Protocol failure</li><li class="li">Soft-WAN link failure</li><li class="li">Software failure</li></ul> </li></ul> </div> <div class="p">The following values are available for the Stage field in the Incident table:<ul class="ul" id="psew-escalate-incident__ul_qxm_l45_sxb"><li class="li">Triage</li><li class="li">L1 investigation</li><li class="li">L2 investigation</li><li class="li">L3 investigation</li></ul> </div> <p class="p">Based on the defined conditions, such as current stage, category, and sub-category, the Incident Escalation Policy decision table determines the results and the next escalation stage if appropriate.</p> <p class="p"><img class="image" id="psew-escalate-incident__image_qll_kz5_sxb" src="../image/psew-incident-dec-table.png" alt="Incident Escalation Policy decision table to configure incident escalation results in Service Operations Workspace" /></p> <p class="p">The decision table is provided with the <span class="ph">Proactive Service Experience Workflows</span> application. You can modify the conditions that have been defined, and the results to suit your requirements. For more details on updating decision tables, see <a class="xref" href="../administer/decision-table/concept/decision-table.dita/decision-table.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Decision Tables</a>.</p> <p class="p">When an incident is escalated, the status of the Needs attention field is updated to <span class="ph uicontrol">True</span>. The status can be changed to <span class="ph uicontrol">False</span> by the owner of the Assignment Group field.</p> <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> As a system administrator, you can configure the <span class="ph uicontrol">Set Needs Attention False</span> business rule.</div> </div> <div class="related-links"> <ul class="ullinks"><li class="link ulchildlink"><strong><a href="../../../product/tmt-assurance-workflows/task/escalate-incident-aw.html">Escalate an incident in Proactive Service Experience Workflows</a></strong><br /> Escalate an incident to continue the investigation and diagnosis of that incident. By escalating an incident, you can ask for help from a more-experienced resource so that the issue is resolved more quickly.</li></ul> <div class="familylinks"> <div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent Topic:</strong> <a class="link" href="../../../product/tmt-assurance-workflows/concept/use-assurance-workflows.html" title="By using Proactive Service Experience Workflows, you can help resolve network-initiated incidents and proactively notify impacted customers. This application enhances the Incident Management application for common SD-WAN service issues that are detected by network management systems.">Using Proactive Service Experience Workflows</a></div> </div> </div></body></html></div>