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ServiceNow IT Operations Management

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ServiceNow IT Operations Management

Overview of this book

ServiceNow ITOM enables infrastructure and processes to be managed in a highly automated manner. It contains various segments that ensure its applications and enterprise infrastructures are optimized for high performance and helps in creating a lean and agile organization through service?level visibility and automation. This book will be a comprehensive guide that will be based on Geneva release and will help you discover how IT activities can be connected to your business needs, rather than just focusing on internal IT process. It will take a service-centric approach to operations management and consolidate all your resource data into a single system IT record. You will learn about discovery, orchestration, MID server and cloud management, helping you take full advantage of ServiceNow IT Operations Management to improve the quality of service & increasing the service availability. By the end of the book, you will be able to achieve improved service availability, immediate visibility of vital business services and much more, all from the convenience of your single screen.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Discovery pattern designer


To discover the devices and applications, the pattern designer creates a sequence of commands that are mostly preconfigured and can be customized. Each discovery pattern serves to discover only one CI type, but the discovery can use more than one pattern to discover the same CI type.

Let's see how to create an empty pattern and configure important settings:

  1. Search for Discovery Patterns from the application navigator, which will bring up all the existing patterns configured:
  1. Clicking on New opens up a form to create a new pattern. The settings or configurations available are:
    • Name: Name of the pattern
    • CI type: Select CI type for this pattern to discover, as mentioned earlier you can have one pattern for a CI type
    • Pattern type: Choose Service Mapping for service mapping patterns, select Discovery Host to discover a host, and select Discovery Application to discover an application running on a host
  1. Click Submit to create the new pattern using basic options, advance attributes...