Archiving Your Playbooks

Role Availability Read-Only Investigator Analyst Manager

USM Anywhere enables users to archive playbooks they do not wish to use or that are no longer valid. Archiving gives users the ability to temporarily deactivate or permanently delete their playbooks.

Once a playbook is archived, it will no longer appear as a response option for associated alarms. This reduces the list of available playbooks on an alarm down to only playbooks users want to see and use. Any automated playbooks that are archived will also not be executed. While archived playbooks will not be visible as an option to run, users can still access their archived playbooks' details and execution history in the History tab. Users can also filter to view a list of all playbooks that are currently archived.

Important: Users can recover an archived playbook if they wish to reinstate it as an option. Archived playbooks and their execution history will be permanently deleted from USM Anywhere 180 days after being archived unless they are recovered before then.

To archive a playbook

  1. Go to Settings > Playbooks.

  2. Click the icon of the playbook you want to archive.
    The Archive Playbook dialog box opens.

  3. Click Confirm.
    Archive Playbook dialog box stating "The playbook will be archived. Do you want to continue?"
    A dialog box opens confirming your playbook has been archived.

  4. Click OK.

To archive multiple playbooks

  1. Go to Settings > Playbooks.

  2. Select the playbooks you want to archive.

  3. Click Archive Playbooks.

    Playbooks page showing selected playbooks and the location of the Archive Playbooks button
    The Archive Playbooks dialog box opens.

  4. Click Confirm.
    Archive Playbooks dialog box stating "The playbooks will be archived. Do you want to continue?"
    A dialog box opens confirming your playbook has been archived.

  5. Click OK.

To view archived playbooks

  1. Go to Settings > Playbooks.

  2. Click the Archived filter.
    Archived button highlighted on the My Playbooks page

Note: The name of an archived playbook will display with a strikethrough. You can see the date and time a playbook was archived by hovering your cursor over the playbook name.

To recover an archived playbook

  1. Go to Settings > Playbooks.

  2. Click the Archived filter.
    Archived button highlighted on the My Playbooks page

  3. Click the icon of the playbook you want to recover.
    A message will briefly appear in the upper-right corner confirming your playbook was recovered.

  4. Click the Active filter to go back to your active playbooks.

  5. Enable the playbook you just recovered by clicking the toggle in the Enabled column.

Note: A playbook is automatically disabled when it is recovered. The playbook must be enabled after it is recovered to reinstate it as an option.

To recover multiple archived playbooks

  1. Go to Settings > Playbooks.

  2. Click the Archived filter.

    Archived button highlighted on the My Playbooks page

  3. Select the playbooks you want to recover.

  4. Click Recover Playbooks.
    Archived playbooks page showing selected archived playbooks and where the Recover Playbooks button is
    A message will briefly appear in the upper-right corner confirming your playbooks were recovered.

  5. Click the Active filter to go back to your active playbooks.

  6. Enable the playbooks you just recovered by clicking each toggle in the Enabled column.

Note: A playbook is automatically disabled when it is recovered. The playbook must be enabled after it is recovered to reinstate it as an option.