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ServiceNow Cookbook

By : Ashish Rudra Srivastava, Dustin Turner
Book Image

ServiceNow Cookbook

By: Ashish Rudra Srivastava, Dustin Turner

Overview of this book

ServiceNow is the ideal platform for you to create enterprise-level applications, giving borh requesters and fulfillers better visibility and access to a process. With this title we’ll guide you through the world of ServiceNow, letting you take on the best the platform offers you with the least amount of hassle. Starting with the core configuration and management tasks, this book will help you build data-driven apps and it will also explore development best practices. You will learn to set up email notifications for users and work with the database view for reporting. Next, the book will guide you through creating various tasks from the workflow and show you how to make the most of the workflow utilities available in ServiceNow. Finally, the book will drive you through the auditing and diagnosing aspects of ServiceNow. By the end of this book, you will acquire immediately applicable skills to rectify everyday problems encountered on the ServiceNow platform.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
ServiceNow Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Understand web services


Out of box, service-now provide channels to communicate with outside world. Service-now is capable enough to communicate over HTTP based web services. It’s is advisable to use MID (Management, Instrumentation, and Discovery) to communicate to outside world as MID server communicate over HTTP to communicate to service-now instances.

Getting ready 

To step through this recipe, you should have active instance and valid credentials with admin/web services role. 

How to do it... 

  1. Open any standard web browser and type instance address.

  2. Login in service-now instance with valid credentials.

  3. On left hand side in search box, type web services and service-now will search out module for you as shown following:

    Web services

  4. Out of box, service-now provides following types of web services.

    • Publisher: By publishing the web services, you can provide data to external sources to consume. Each service-now table has potential to publish its data to external system.

    • Click: Create New under Inbound...