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Serial Number changing on CI records, causing duplicate records

Our CMDB is using both Discovery and SCCM-SG for populating CIs.  Recently we started noticing few duplicates coming across our remediation duplicate tasks.  As we researched we noticed that SCCM is changing the SN fields as well as Discovery.  We ha...

Resolved! OOTB duplicate ServiceNow CMDB class names/labels

Out-of-the-box, our ServiceNow contains multiple classes having the same label.e.g. "Cloud Resource" is both the label for "cmdb_ci_cmp_resource" and "cmdb_ci_cloud_resource".(There are also other classes with the same duplicate labels.)This makes it...

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Johannes by Mega Sage
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Resolved! CMDB: virtual appliances onboarding & maintenance process

Hello All, I'm wondering what will be the best process for virtual appliances in CMDB. The virtual appliances like IP routers, firewalls, etc,.. are being discovered in CMDB which creates the VM instance record and the hardware applaince record which...

Resolved! Is anyone maintaining Patches related information in CMDB?

Around 6 years back one of the customer asked us to retrieve the patches related information using Discovery product.That time had came across this article - https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0695180 Even today it...

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Suggy by Giga Sage
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CMDB Data Archiving

Hi All, We are planning to implement Data Archiving for CMDB. Initially we taught of using Data Archive feature, but later when going through Servienow documents, it is mentioned to use Data Manager for Archiving CMDB.But there is no mention about wh...

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madanm7786 by Mega Guru
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CMDB table that could be associated with application and roles for a User

I have a requirement I need to store different applications and associate roles with the application in service now and would also need to associate an  Application with an user. I could see the cmdb_ci_appl table and also the cmdb_rel_user_type, whe...

Community Alums by Community Alums  
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is_virtual field or specific class ?

 Hello all,I have virtual machines hosted on ESX servers (on-premise) and virtual machines hosted in the cloud (AWS AZURE...). What does the "is_virtual" checkbox mean? Is it used to specify that a virtual instance is hosted on a physical server ? Or...

Steff95 by Tera Contributor
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Resolved! Best Practice for maintaining manually entered CIs

We have had to manually enter some CIs such as network appliances and some servers.  What is the best approach to use to have a task or something generated for someone to verify that the server is still operational every so often so the CI does not g...