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Define Response Monitoring

In this step, you define the response time monitoring functions for notifications. For this purpose, you must first define response profiles and service profiles.

You must then assign these profiles to the quality notification types.

In the response profile, you define a sequence of standard tasks (based on the priority of the notification) that can be proposed in the notification and which must be carried out within a predefined period of time.

When the system processes a notification, it always assigns the tasks that have been selected on the basis of a response profile to the notification header.

The service profile defines the times during each work day when a notification is processed. You can also specify several time periods for each weekday and you can assign a separate response profile to each of these periods.

Requirements

Activities

1. Define the response profiles your company needs to process the notifications. The field for the hierarchy level applies to the service notifications only; it serves no purpose for other notifications, since only one response profile can be assigned to each notification type.
2. Define valid service profiles for your company. If necessary, specify corresponding response profiles for these service profiles.
3. Identify the notification types for which response profiles or service profiles are to be predefined and maintain these assignments.
Note that when you defined your service profiles, you may already have assigned a response profile to each service profile. This response profile overrides any response profile that you assign to the notification type. The response profile for the notification type only takes effect, if the notification is created outside of the service window.

Further Notes

Service Windows

The processing times defined in the service profile are only valid for the tasks defined in these profiles that the system suggests for the notification header. The resulting processing deadlines take precedence over the basic dates that come from the notification priority.

Service Profile in the Service Contract

For more information about the service profile in the service contract, refer to the Notifications (CS-CM-SN/PM-WOC-MN) section in the SAP library.