# Viewing standard operating procedures
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**To view the implemented SOPs from applications**

1. In the left navigation menu, choose **Applications**.

1. In **Applications**, open an application.

1. Choose **Standard operating procedures** tab.

   In **Standard operating procedures summary** section, the **Implemented standard operating procedures** table displays the list of SOPs that are generated from SOP recommendations.

   You can identify your SOPs by the following:
   + **SOP name** – Name of the SOP that you have defined for your application.
   + **SSM document** – S3 URL of the Amazon EC2 Systems Manager document that contains the SOP definition.
   + **Description** – Describes the objective of the SOP.
   + **Test run** – S3 URL of the document that contains the results of the latest test.
   + **Reference ID** – Identifier of the referenced SOP recommendation.
   + **Resource ID** – Identifier of the resource for which the SOP recommendation is implemented.

**To view the recommended SOPs from assessments**

1. In the left navigation menu, choose **Applications**.

1. Select an application from the **Applications** table. 

   To find an application, enter the application name in the **Find applications** box.

1. Choose **Assessments** tab.

   In **Resiliency assessments** table, you can identify your assessments using the following information:
   + **Name** – Name of the assessment you had provided at the time of creation.
   + **Status** – Indicates the execution state of the assessment.
   + **Compliance status** – Indicates if the assessment is compliant with the resiliency policy.
   + **Resiliency drift status** – Indicates if your application has drifted or not from the previous successful assessment.
   + **App version** – Version of your application.
   + **Invoker** – Indicates the role that invoked the assessment.
   + **Start time** – Indicates the start time of the assessment.
   + **End time** – Indicates the end time of the assessment.
   + **ARN** – The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) of the assessment.

1. Select an assessment from the **Resiliency assessments** table.

1. Choose **Operational recommendations** tab.

1. Choose **Standard operating procedures** tab.

   In the **Standard operating procedures** table, you can understand more about the recommended SOPs using the following information:
   + **Name** – Name of the recommended SOP.
   + **Description** – Describes the objective of the SOP.
   + **State** – Indicates the current implementation state of the SOP. That is, **Implemented**, **Not implemented**, and **Excluded**.
   + **Configuration** – Indicates if there are any pending configuration dependencies that needs to be addressed.
   + **Type** – Indicates the type of SOP.
   + **AppComponent** – Indicates the Application Components (AppComponents) that are associated with this SOP. For more information about supported AppComponents, see [Grouping resources in an AppComponent](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/resilience-hub/latest/userguide/AppComponent.grouping.html?icmpid=docs_resiliencehub_help_panel_operational_recommendations_alarms).
   + **Reference ID** – Indicates the logical identifier of the AWS CloudFormation stack event in AWS CloudFormation.
   + **Recommendation ID** – Indicates the logical identifier of the AWS CloudFormation stack resource in AWS CloudFormation.