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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

Exploring integration with different cloud providers


We can activate the Amazon web services plugin as follows. Following are the steps to activate the Amazon cloud plugin, and the following screenshot is from the developer instance. Follow the steps to activate the required Amazon plugin:

  1. Search for the Cloud Management - Amazon Web Services plugin and click on Activate.
  1. This is a personal developer instance, so click on Activate plugin only to activate the plugin.
  1. Installing the AWS plugin will install the following:
    • com.snc.aws: The primary Amazon AWS Cloud plugin
    • com.snc.aws.activities: Amazon AWS Cloud activities
    • com.snc.aws.common: Amazon common
    • com.snc.aws.core: Components common to Amazon AWS Cloud

Note

If you need to install Microsoft Azure and VMWare related-cloud applications, use the same to search for the following plug in and activate them.

  1. To configure the Microsoft Azure application you will need to activate the following plugin:
    • Cloud management - Microsoft Azure
    • Microsoft Azure management...