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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

MID Server configuration and setup


Let's explore the steps required to configure MID Server connection prerequisites:

First step is to set up users and roles for MID Server. MID Server uses users and roles to interact with the ServiceNow instance through the SOAP web service. Best practice is to create individual user accounts for each of the MID Servers in the network that need to have a mid_server role to be able to access the restricted tables within ServiceNow.

Creating a MID Server role

Download the MID Server installation:

  1. Log on to your server where you intend to install the MID Server.
  2. Open the supported browser and log on to the ServiceNow instance, which is usually the developer instance.
  3. Log on to the ServiceNow instance with your credentials.
  4. On the remote Windows server navigate to MID Server | Downloads:

In this example, we will go ahead and download the 32 bit version. Now right-click on Windows and right-click on 32 bit and then download to the server or the local machine where you...