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title: Registering Service Continuity
slug: itsm-en/registering-service-continuity
description: Learn how to effectively use Continuity Management functionality to recover IT services and their components in the case of a disaster. This document outlines the prerequisites for utilizing this feature, including defining services in Portfolio and Catal
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createdAt: 2021-10-27T20:12:22.000Z
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******Continuity Management** focuses on the recovery of IT services and their components in face of an event of a disaster.
This functionality allows **registering the continuity of certain services**.
## Before getting started
- [x] Assumes the existence of a defined service in a Portfolio and Catalog Management
process;
- [x] It is necessary to previously register the threat and threat category, both
linked to each other;
- [x] In addition, to register previously the risk and 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, being those actions part of the Initiation phase of the
complete registration of continuity