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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

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

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

    New incident for troubleshooting

  4. Now go to Session Debug under System Diagnostics application and click on Enable All, as shown here:

    Debugging

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

    Enable All output

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