itSMF just opened nominations for its 2009 Awards. If you have a cool
ITSM project that deserves attention, please let us know. We'd be happy
to help create a submission and nominate your company for ...
Shazzam is a feature we added to Discovery a few months ago. It uses
port scanning (amongst other things) to find devices on the network. At
Knowledge09 (our recent user conference), several people as...
Discovery's probes all do the same thing using different technologies:
they ask a question, get the answer, and send it back to your
Service-now.com instance. They also all do something that may not b...
When you're using GlideRecords in JavaScript, getting properties on the
GlideRecord instance may not do exactly what you think they do — and
this difference can get you in trouble! For example, consid...
Normally Discovery uses the ping utility to determine whether there is a
device at a particular IP address. One of our customers located in
France ran into a slight difficulty with this, however. Some...
This is the "morning after" — that is, the morning after this year's
user conference, Knowledge09. We code monkeys had the chance to meet and
talk with quite a few of you who are already using Discove...
Service-now.com is the pioneer of IT Service Automation Software as a
Service. We are taking our high-octane business to the road, literally.
The Service-now.com brand can now be seen on AMB Racing & ...
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this is from a production instance! Is Service-now hard t...
Yesterday, my wife and I along with two other couples traveled out to
the Anza Borrego desert, an area just east of the San Diego mountains I
live in. It's about 50 miles from our home (and about 85 m...
Are you a command line maestro (like Captain Command Line at right)?
Newbie? Whichever description fits you better, you'll almost certainly
learn something interesting at Command-line-fu. This site le...
With the Stable 2 release last Friday, we've introduced some useful
improvements to the way you manage MID server configurations. Until this
release the only way you could examine or modify the MID se...
Today, I was fortunate to present and sit on a panel discussion at the
St. Louis Gateway itSMF Local Interest Group chapter meeting. Like with
most Local Interest Groups, the St. Louis chapter asked S...
I've been tasked (by myself) to make our SNC instance more sharepoint
friendly - new ticket via RSS to sharepoint, knowledge management
integration, and using sharepoint as a portal to self-service fo...
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So here's what I want in our Service-Now instance:1) A testing
checklist- routine procedures to follow through before implementing
changes (from new release to adding a field)2) stamp/title reports wi...
I am trying to use the watch list field for our custom incident tracking
form.When using the watch list, the wiki states that the emails will
show on "To" and "CC", is it possible to list the emails i...
Service-now.com was at the Pink Elephant conference this week. The
Tuesday morning keynote was an excellent presentation (no bias here) by
Nick Carr, controversial author of "Does IT Matter?" and "The...
Shazzam is the name of the cute (?) mutt at right. It's also the name of
a new feature in our Discovery product.Searching for images of Shazzam
(via Google image search) was more interesting than I'd ...
Shankar has another question:Thought I'd share this as well, discovery
is supposed to find serial number information from a quite a number of
places, rather the system enclosure, baseboard and probabl...
One of my readers (shankar) looked at the ECC queue after Discovery ran,
and saw the Microsoft Product IDs in the payload data — but couldn't
figure out how to look at them in the Service-now instance...