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Why not use unique NAME values in CMDB? ref to CSA lab 4.4.1

See course Administration Fundamentals course, lab 4.4.1 Data values in field NAME are not unique. Why is that not a best practice?In my experience naming standards and uniqueness is very valuable, so as not to rely entirely on Serial Number for uniq...

Resolved! What is usage of parent model category?

Hi. I have a lot of assets need to be moved to another model category 'P' from 'C'.But I've found an alternative that using parent model categorySo I'm considering to specify model category 'P' as parent of model category 'C' instead of mass changing...

Discovery creating duplicate Windows Server CIs

We’re seeing duplicate Windows Server CIs created by ServiceNow Discovery where the newly created CI has an empty Serial Number. These duplicate records appear to be created during Discovery runs and only once per affected server.Key indicators on th...

Resolved! CMDB and AWS Integration Errors

Our team is seeing errors with the IAM role we use for CMDB Discovery in our AWS Organization. We are seeing the error on an extremely small subset of our child accounts in our AWS Organization. It appears to be trying to sts:AssumeRole to a role tha...

yogao by Tera Contributor
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CI Reclassification

CI Reclassification refers to updating a Configuration Item’s class (for example, from Server to Windows Server) so that it accurately reflects its actual type. IRE plays a huge role in CI Reclassification.Example 1 :Let's consider a Windows Server w...

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IRE Errors for multiple classes

We are receiving IRE errors in the import set table after the record is send by third party to our staging table. The Errors are :-  {"cmdb_ci_database":{"incomplete":1,"errors":1},"cmdb_ci_service_discovered":{"unchanged":1},"cmdb_ci_linux_server":{...

siddheshagn by Tera Contributor
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