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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

Disclaimer

The author has taken the possible measures and made it easy for the reader to use the easily available resources, including most of the steps highlighted in the book that is leveraged using the developer instance, which is available for everyone. You can reset it at https://developer.servicenow.com/app.do#!/home. Moreover, for any further clarifications required on the subject, you can navigate to https://community.servicenow.com/welcome. Also, the latest documentation and further details are available at the ServiceNow wiki, which has a vast majority of topics covered. Some of the topics or images might have references to ServiceNow wiki. ServiceNow is a trademark of ServiceNow Inc. who owns ServiceNow. The author has no direct involvement with the company. He has just utilized the product capabilities and features to complete the book. The book started the journey during the Geneva release. The author has taken all the measures to update the versions to Helsinki and Istanbul. You might need to refer to ServiceNow wiki for the latest documentation if some of the topics are not clear and you can also get clarification from the ServiceNow community. The author does not warrant that all the instructions mentioned in the book might work the way they are described. All the steps described are based on configurations and settings of various instructions described, for example, IP addresses, attribute information, and other information pertinent to the environment and settings. Furthermore, the author has not utilized any of the external resources either from his employer or other third-party resources. This book was fully written by the author using his own personal developer instance available at ServiceNow.