Get Oauth token gives HTTP Error 401 - Unauthorized

Khalnayak · ‎11-17-2020

Hi all,

I have created an app registry for the Service Graph Connector for Microsoft Intune app in ServiceNow.

I have created an app registry in azure too and all the setup looks fine.

But when clicking on Get Oauth token I am getting the HTTP Error 401 - Unauthorized.

I dont know why though, as I have the exact same setup for my dev instance and that is working fine.

Just when setting it up in test it is giving this error.

The only difference between the 2 instances that I know of, is that test is SSO using Azure AD and Dev is not.

When i first clicked Get Oauth token, it asked me to login, then asked for admin approval, which I got an admin user to enter, and after that I am seeing this error.

Can someone advise please?

shawna · ‎05-01-2021

I had the same issue and this link really helped me. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/servicenow-outbound-web-services-oauth-20-how-handle-r%C3%A9da-osseili/

The error that SN returned by default is very misleading since it hides the actual detailed error message. We need to add some logs in the script include (OAuthUtil) that parse the get token response, so we can understand the exact issue.

My particular issue was that I was using the wrong client secret. I used the id instead of the actual secret value. Silly me, I know!

Once you enable the log in OAuthUtil, The error message was able to lead me to resolve my issue.

Hope this will help someone in the future.

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Ankur Bawiskar · ‎11-17-2020

Seems so

Regards,
Ankur
✨ Certified Technical Architect || ✨ 9x ServiceNow MVP || ✨ ServiceNow Community Leader

Khalnayak · ‎11-18-2020

Hi Ankur,

Any suggestions of what could be causing this? any security setting maybe? or whitelisting?

Ankur Bawiskar · ‎11-18-2020

Hi,

you can try to whitelist but not exactly sure on that

Regards
Ankur

Regards,
Ankur
✨ Certified Technical Architect || ✨ 9x ServiceNow MVP || ✨ ServiceNow Community Leader

Gardnerios · ‎11-18-2020

I have the same problem the HTTP Error 401 Unauthorized 😞

Elumalai · ‎03-27-2021

Any solution found related to thread I am facing same issue. servicenow and Ansible tower integration. when clicking Get Autho Token it prompt for Authorize servicenow for "Write Scope" has below. Ansible API ok but I think service now throws "HTTP Error 401 - Unauthorized"

Authorize servicenow?

Application requires following permissions

Writing scope

I follow the below link to integration Ansible tower servicenow but not working

https://www.ansible.com/blog/ansible-servicenow-howto-part-3-making-outbound-restful-api-calls-to-ansible-tower