A What-If scenario is a set of events that you can add to the scenario to simulate actions that can resolve service problems and analyze their impact on the active jobs, before execution begins. Each individual potential change is called a What-If. For example, you can use individual What-Ifs to simulate the effects of skipping a job or changing the time frame of a job.
You can add What-If, as described in Adding a What-if event. When you add a What-If, the Business Service Analysis Viewpoint displays the effect automatically.
To emphasize that you are working with simulated jobs and not active jobs, the background color of the flow diagram in the Business Service Analysis Viewpoint differs from the color in the Monitoring domain Viewpoint. By default, the color is light blue. You can configure it to a different background color, as described in Customizing your default settings in the Control-M client. The simulated color background is displayed only if the Business Services What-If Scenario window contains What-Ifs. If all What-Ifs are deleted or disabled, the background color reverts back to the active background color.
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