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ServiceNow IT Operations Management

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ServiceNow IT Operations Management

Overview of this book

ServiceNow ITOM enables infrastructure and processes to be managed in a highly automated manner. It contains various segments that ensure its applications and enterprise infrastructures are optimized for high performance and helps in creating a lean and agile organization through service?level visibility and automation. This book will be a comprehensive guide that will be based on Geneva release and will help you discover how IT activities can be connected to your business needs, rather than just focusing on internal IT process. It will take a service-centric approach to operations management and consolidate all your resource data into a single system IT record. You will learn about discovery, orchestration, MID server and cloud management, helping you take full advantage of ServiceNow IT Operations Management to improve the quality of service & increasing the service availability. By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve improved service availability, immediate visibility of vital business services and much more, all from the convenience of your single screen.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

MID Server prerequisites


In this section, we will cover the detailed prerequisites required to set up MID Server including any license requirements.

  • Required ServiceNow plugins:
    • MID Server
  • External dependency: Ability to access networks without any restriction
  • System requirements:
    • Operating system:

Windows physical or virtual server with the operating system 2003, 2008, and 2012

Linux physical or virtual server

  • System suggested configuration:
    • 4 GB of available RAM with minimum 500 MB of disk space
  • Role requirements
    • MID Server user role
    • System administration of the server to install the actual MID Server
  • License requirements: None

Now that we have gone through prerequisites for MID Server, let's now explore in detail step-by-step procedures to begin checking the prerequisites.