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title: Register Service Continuity
slug: citsmart-8-en/register-service-continuity
description: Learn about the essential steps to ensure the recovery of IT services during a disaster with this comprehensive guide on Continuity Management. Discover how to define services, register threats and risk categories, and implement automatic actions for inci
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createdAt: 2022-01-19T22:53:25.000Z
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The Continuity Management focuses on the recovery of IT services and its components in face of an event of disaster. It allows registering the continuity of certain services.

## Before getting started

- [x] Make sure there is a defined service in the Portfolio and Catalog Management
   process.
- [x] Also, previously register the threat and the threat category, both
   linked to each other. As well as the risk and the risk
   category.
- [x] It is equally necessary to have registered the automatic actions of Incident,
   Request and Procedures about the Event Management.

## Procedure

1. Access the functionality through the main menu `Processes > Continuity
    Management > Continuity`;
2. Click on "**Continuity Registration**";
3. Complete the field necessary (name and select the client to link);
4. Click on "**Save**".

## What to do next

After registering the continuity, it is necessary to execute the following actions:
 set the continuity policy, register the continuity scope and define the continuity project, which are part of the Initiation phase of the
 complete registration of the Continuity.