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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

Setting up an SLA/OLA/underpinning contract


In an IT support environment, every support group, vendor and so on work under certain time contract based on priority of task; this contract can be referred to as SLA or OLA or underpinning contracts. SLAs are used to ensure that the support team completes the task  in the set amount of time.  

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}.service-now.com) provided by your company in the address bar. Now, enter your credentials in respective fields.

  3. Type service management in the search box and Service-Now will search the Service Level Management application for you. Click on the SLA Definitions module, as shown here:

    Service-Now management

  4. You will now be able to see the following screen, where you can see all SLA records. Click on the New button to create new...