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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

Chapter 7. Exploring Service Mapping

In this chapter, we will learn about service mapping. Service mapping helps to generate business service maps, which helps us to understand the relationship between the business and other underlying infrastructure components.  In this chapter we will learn about:

  • Service mapping architecture: How the service mapping works
  • Activating service mapping plugin: Configuring and activating the service mapping plugin 
  • How to user service maps: Using service maps and also changing some parameters
  • Customizing service mapping pattern: How to change the parameters of service maps on the high level