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/AWS1/CL_SMI=>STARTINCIDENT()

About StartIncident

Used to start an incident from CloudWatch alarms, EventBridge events, or manually.

Method Signature

IMPORTING

Required arguments:

IV_RESPONSEPLANARN TYPE /AWS1/SMIARN /AWS1/SMIARN

The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the response plan that pre-defines summary, chat channels, Amazon SNS topics, runbooks, title, and impact of the incident.

Optional arguments:

IV_CLIENTTOKEN TYPE /AWS1/SMICLIENTTOKEN /AWS1/SMICLIENTTOKEN

A token ensuring that the operation is called only once with the specified details.

IV_TITLE TYPE /AWS1/SMIINCIDENTTITLE /AWS1/SMIINCIDENTTITLE

Provide a title for the incident. Providing a title overwrites the title provided by the response plan.

IV_IMPACT TYPE /AWS1/SMIIMPACT /AWS1/SMIIMPACT

Defines the impact to the customers. Providing an impact overwrites the impact provided by a response plan.

Supported impact codes

  • 1 - Critical

  • 2 - High

  • 3 - Medium

  • 4 - Low

  • 5 - No Impact

IO_TRIGGERDETAILS TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_SMITRIGGERDETAILS /AWS1/CL_SMITRIGGERDETAILS

Details of what created the incident record in Incident Manager.

IT_RELATEDITEMS TYPE /AWS1/CL_SMIRELATEDITEM=>TT_RELATEDITEMLIST TT_RELATEDITEMLIST

Add related items to the incident for other responders to use. Related items are Amazon Web Services resources, external links, or files uploaded to an Amazon S3 bucket.

RETURNING

OO_OUTPUT TYPE REF TO /AWS1/CL_SMISTARTINCIDENTOUT /AWS1/CL_SMISTARTINCIDENTOUT