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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

Getting into system security


As you know by now, Service-Now is a role-based system, and to access any module, you should have the respective role.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you should have an active Service-Now instance, valid credentials, and an admin or security 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. On the left-hand side, type system security  in the search box, and Service-Now will search for the module for you:

    System security module

  4. To create a new role, you need to type the role in the search box, and Service-Now will search the module for you. Click on the Roles module:

    Roles Module

  5. Roles module acts as a central repository of all system and custom roles. After clicking on the Roles module, you will be able to see all roles as given here, where you need to click on the New button...