Previous Topic: Dashboard CalculationsNext Topic: Current Status Calculation Method


Contractual Obligation Calculation Method

The Contractual Obligation provides the user with information based on the contractual tracking period defined for each of the metrics in the contract.

Consider for example, a metric that measures the availability of a service over a contractual tracking period of one month; its status may vary depending upon the cumulative availability as a function of time since the beginning of the month. If the target is at least 80 percent availability and the service was not available for the last 12 hours, a status view in the middle of the month would show 96 percent availability. This is good from the contractual point of view, but users do not see that a potentially serious situation is developing and could possibly be worsening.