You can close a major incident manually after validating the resolution and when the major incident is in the Resolved state.

Before you begin

  • Role required: major_incident_manager or admin
  • Major incident is in resolved state

Procedure

  1. Navigate to All > Major Incidents > Open.
  2. Open the major incident that you want to close.
  3. Click Close Incident.
    Note:
    • If you cancel an incident and the major incident state is in Proposed or Accepted state, the major incident state changes to Canceled.
    • The incident auto-closure property Enable auto closure of incidents based on Resolution date. Setting this to 'No' will make auto closure to run based on the Updated date does not close any incident record that is accepted as a major incident. Users with the major_incident_manager or admin role must close a major incident manually, after validating the resolution and when the major incident is in the Resolved state.
    • If an incident was promoted as a major incident, then an ESS user cannot resolve, close, or reopen the incident.