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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

Cloning instances


Update Sets are designed to move some configuration from one instance to another. They allow administrators to push new functionality-or bug fixes-to another instance, thereby migrating only the configuration that has changed.

In contrast, a clone is much more complete. It shifts almost the entire database from one instance to another instance. Since ServiceNow stores pretty much everything in the database, this results in everything being copied from the source to the target. This includes all the configuration and the data. It could even include the System Log and Audit tables. The following figure is a diagrammatic representation of the cloning process:

Note

A clone results in an almost identical copy of an instance. The target system will be wiped, including any in-progress work. All the tasks will also be overwritten. A clone cannot be undone.

 

Cloning is performed through the System Clone menu in the Application Navigator. Since it is so absolute, it works in conjunction...