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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

By : Tim Woodruff, Martin Wood, Ashish Rudra Srivastava
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ServiceNow: Building Powerful Workflows

By: Tim Woodruff, Martin Wood, Ashish Rudra Srivastava

Overview of this book

ServiceNow is a SaaS application that provides workflow form-based applications. It is an ideal platform for creating enterprise-level applications, giving requesters and fulfillers improved visibility and access to a process. ServiceNow-based applications often replace email by providing a better way to get work done. This course will show you how to put important ServiceNow features to work in the real world. We will introduce key concepts and examples on managing and automating IT services, and help you build a solid foundation towards this new approach. You will then learn more about the power of tasks, events, and notifications. We’ll then focus on using web services and other mechanisms to integrate ServiceNow with other systems. Further on, you’ll learn how to secure applications and data, and understand how ServiceNow performs logging and error reporting. At the end of this course, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform. The course provides you with highly practical content explaining ServiceNow from the following Packt books: 1. Learning ServiceNow 2. ServiceNow Cookbook 3. Mastering ServiceNow, Second Edition
Table of Contents (39 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Module 1
36
Bibliography

Getting into CMDB


CMDB stands for configuration management database. Let's understand this with an example. For instance, if you purchase a laptop, then you can easily maintain or install software, but in an enterprise environment with, say, 10,000 systems in different locations, it's not an easy task to maintain (monthly patching, installing new software security, and so on) such large numbers; that's why asset management tools are on the market; they search for devices and store them in Service-Now CMDB tables.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you should have an active Service-Now instance, valid credentials, and an admin role.

How to do it...

  1. Open any standard web browser.
  2. Type the Service-Now instance web address (https://{instance_name}.sservice-now.com) provided by your company in the address bar. Now, enter your credentials in respective fields.
  1. Type configuration in the search box, and Service-Now will search the module for you:

Configuration management module

Note

It is important...