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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

System diagnostics


Out of the box, Service-Now provides the system diagnostics module for troubleshooting, where you can debug business rules, SQL, security UI policy, data policy, and so on.

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 and type the instance address.
  2. On the left-hand side, type Debug in the search box and Service-Now will search the System Diagnostics application for you, as shown here:

System diagnostics module

  1. To understand the debug better, you can open an incident from, as given here, by going to the Incident application:

New incident for troubleshooting

  1. Now go to Session Debug under System Diagnostics application and click on EnableAll, as shown here:

Debugging

  1. You will now be able to see text, as given here, where you can see that Service-Now ran a script by clicking on EnableAll:

Enable All output

  1. Now you need to open the incident form again and you...