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Which ServiceNow utility gives a Service Desk agent the ability to trace from a Service having an issue, to see which CIs supporting that service have active issues?

The correct answer is A. CI Dependency View. The CI Dependency View is a visual utility that enables Service Desk agents to trace relationships between services and their supporting Configuration Items (CIs), helping identify underlying issues.

Submitted by hans_de· Apr 18, 2026User Interface and Navigation

Question

Which ServiceNow utility gives a Service Desk agent the ability to trace from a Service having an issue, to see which CIs supporting that service have active issues?

Options

  • ACI Dependency View
  • BEvent Management Homepage
  • CService Dashboard
  • DCI Health Dashboard

How the community answered

(38 responses)
  • A
    89% (34)
  • B
    5% (2)
  • C
    3% (1)
  • D
    3% (1)

Why each option

The CI Dependency View is a visual utility that enables Service Desk agents to trace relationships between services and their supporting Configuration Items (CIs), helping identify underlying issues.

ACI Dependency ViewCorrect

The CI Dependency View provides a graphical representation of how CIs are related, allowing an agent to trace from a service experiencing issues to its supporting CIs, thereby visualizing and pinpointing which components might have active issues or be causing an outage.

BEvent Management Homepage

The Event Management Homepage primarily focuses on monitoring alerts and events, not interactively tracing CI dependencies from a service.

CService Dashboard

A Service Dashboard typically presents an overview of service health and KPIs but lacks the interactive dependency mapping to specific CIs.

DCI Health Dashboard

A CI Health Dashboard shows the health status of individual CIs but does not provide a direct, interactive dependency map to trace issues from a service to its components.

Concept tested: CI Dependency View for service impact analysis

Source: https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/utah-servicenow-platform/page/product/configuration-management/concept/ci-dependency-view.html

Topics

#CMDB#Dependency View#ITSM#Service Mapping

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