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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 installation


Follow these steps to install the MID Server:

  1. Create two folders in the root drive (example C: or D:)
  1. Create a folder called MID Server in the root, the path to the folder will look like C:MID Server.
  2. Now create one more folder called MID Server 1 inside the newly created folder MID Server, the path to the newly created folder will look like C:MID ServerMID Server1:
  1. Extract the downloaded installation to the folder: C:MID ServerMID Server1
  1. After extraction you will see a folder called agent:

Note

The steps we have seen so far are common for a manual and automated installation. Now let's see the required steps for manual installation and we will later explain automated installation.

 

MID Server manual installation procedures

  1. Open the folder called agent and you will see many folders and files inside the folder. Now right-click on the file called config.xml and click on Open with | WordPad or you can use any text editor:
  1. In the config.xml file you will need to provide the instance...