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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 cloud management applications


Managing the cloud instances had been difficult in the past, but nowadays it is easy to manage the cloud instances easily ServiceNow cloud management application. The ServiceNow cloud management application can be easily integrated with the major public cloud providers and also enables you to manage private clouds. 

In this chapter, we will be exploring and walking thorough the steps on how to configure the Amazon AWS cloud application. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud application allows you to manage the AWS products and services including:

  • Amazon VMs
  • Amazon Elastic Block Stores (EBS)
  • Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs)
  • Amazon CloudFormation
  • Amazon tagging
  • Amazon billing

There are different resources available on the AWS cloud application. The following picture shows the mapping between Amazon resources and the different applications within ServiceNow and how they are consumed. 

  • Billing: The data is consumed by the reporting to generate cost and usage...