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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

Understanding ServiceNow Orchestration architecture 


Management, Instrumentation, and Discovery Server (MID Server) play a key role in Orchestration activities. ServiceNow, which is on the cloud, talks to the corporate network through the MID Server. The MID Server also helps to facilitate the defined Orchestration activities. Orchestration activities instruct the MID Server to execute Orchestration commands against the target infrastructure component and responses back are sent to the instance.

Orchestration workflow 

Orchestration is initiated through the Orchestration workflow. The Orchestration workflow launches a probe and puts the workflows into a pause state. The MID Server executes the probe against the target infrastructure device. Once the probe results are retrieved, the workflow is resumed.

Activities that involve direct web servers do not require the use of Orchestration. Our chapter will be based on the Istanbul release. Let's have a look at the new updates in the release.

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