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title: Recording test results and violations
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# Recording test results and violations

Test measures, threshold rule violations, and applied consequences are sent by external systems and stored against a parent record. When a duplicate is received, the system updates the existing record rather than creating a new one.

Test measures, threshold rule violations, and applied consequences are normally sent by an external system rather than entered by users. Each record carries an external source and an external ID.

When the same test measure, violation, or applied consequence is sent again for the same parent record, the system updates the existing record instead of creating a duplicate.

On each test measure, the application keeps a text summary that shows whether the measured value meets the limits stored on the violations of that measure.

The API that receives these records is provided by the Customer Service Problem Management application. See [Related Customer Service Problem Management information](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/telecom-media-technology/stm-related-cspm-information.md).

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