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Table of Contents

My library Knowledge Sources To Go is very popular, but it was intended mainly as a thematically grouped guide to standard sources and was provided by me as a PDF file. For certain topics, however, there is so much content that I can no longer include it in that document, as it cannot continue to grow forever.

For this reason, I have decided to handle such topics in individual community articles like this one instead.

 

 

What is Service Mapping?

 

Service Mapping automates the service mapping process, creating a complete, up-to-date, and accurate record of your digital services in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB). It works hand-inhand with Discovery, building on discovered infrastructure data to identify all the Configuration Items (CIs) that support a service, along with their service-specific relationships. This includes mapping rapidly changing cloud-based services, providing service visibility in containerized, serverless, and service mesh architectures.

 

 

 

Product Information

Entry point to the official product information pages

 

Product Documentation

Entry point to the official product documentation

 

Data Sheet

Summarized overview in one PDF file.

 

Process Guide

Provides detailed guidance on the way that ServiceNow intends the process to-be, for Service Mapping.

 

How to Add Application Context to Your Infrastructure

In this white paper, see how ServiceNow automates the service mapping process – based on practices that include tagging and machine learning -- for a complete, up-to-date, and accurate record of your digital services. You’ll learn how Service Mapping works hand-in-hand with ServiceNow Discovery to identify the infrastructure that supports particular apps and services, along with their service-specific relationships.

 

 

 

Trainings

 

Service Mapping Fundamentals

During this on demand training course, attendees will gain in depth knowledge and practice in configuring and using ServiceNow Service Mapping. A combination of course content, demonstrations, and lab work will help attendees learn to gain a clear understanding of the ServiceNow Service Mapping solution and its capabilities and how it differs from the ServiceNow Discovery solution. Utilize the Service Mapping Workspace to learn the concepts and ease of ServiceNow Machine Learning (ML) Powered mapping and how to achieve quick time to value in modeling your business and application services. Additionally, learn Top-down mapping that allows ServiceNow administrators to model an entire service by providing a single entry point to the service such as a web URL or host address and port. Other service mapping methods are covered including Tag-based mapping and Dynamic CI Groups.

 

Service Mapping Advanced

This training is an Advanced Level course that covers the necessary skills to enable successful delivery of Service Mapping deployments. The course is an extension of the Service Mapping Fundamentals prerequisite course and provides additional best practices that are centered around implementing in order to best interact with the customer. Advanced topics are reviewed and a challenging set of labs are assigned based on common customer scenarios, in order to provide a realistic learning experience.

 

Service Mapping Extras

Service Mapping Extras provides additional functionality and topics to help you better understand ServiceNow Service Mapping's capabilities. A fundamental level of Service Mapping skills are expected before viewing these modules.

 

Ask a Ranger Video Series for IT Operations Management 

Through this video series, the Rangers share a wealth of implementation insights, including tips, tricks, methodologies, and strategic approaches to assist you in optimizing your utilization of ServiceNow Service Mapping, Discovery, Event Management, Cloud Discovery, AIOps, MID Servers and Service Graph Connector .

 

 

 

Articles & Blog Posts

 

2019-04-10 by @Callan Bond 

How to Use a Service Map

This blog entry covers use cases for your service maps and some suggestions on how to best make use of them on a regular basis.

 

2022-12-20 by @Mary Vanatta1 

5 Approaches to Take on Your Service Mapping Journey

Here is a list of the available approaches to mapping Services to your infrastructure configuration items.

 

 

 

Videos & Podcasts

 

2021-08-16 by ServiceNow Community

What's new in Service Mapping 

Top-down mapping allows customers to identify applications with URL entry points. Tag-based mapping simplified mapping journey for cloud and containers. Imagine if Service Mapping technology allows you to create service maps with the no-code option with Machine learning? What If we can generate content on the fly with ML and what if we can train the system to identify important connections and suggest to the customer to add them to the map. ML Powered service mapping feature is a reality with Quebec Release.

 

2022-03-05 by ServiceNow Community

How To - Service Mapping 

 

2022-02-28 by ServiceNow Community

Top Down Service Mapping

 

2022-02-28 by ServiceNow Community

Tag-Based Service Mapping

 

2022-02-28 by ServiceNow Community

ML Based Service Mapping

 

2022-03-03 by GlideFast Consulting

Machine Learning (ML) Service Mapping

In this ServiceNow Tutorial, Sr. Technical Consultant Colin Christie covers Machine Learning (ML) Service Mapping and enhancements that have been made around traffic-based discovery and utilizing the machine learning based connection suggestions for the Rome Release.

 

2022-11-14 by ServiceNow Community

How to map services in minutes with Automated Service Suggestions

By automating the creation of Service Maps with Automated Service Suggestions, you will be able to:
• Know where to begin for mapping your services
• Map services faster and more accurately with just a few clicks
• Have ongoing visibility of new service candidates to be mapped

 

2023-01-23 by ServiceNow Community

Get Started with ITOM Service Mapping

 

2023-03-22 by ServiceNow Community

Automated Service Mapping Suggestions

Automate Service Mapping with only a few clicks from Machine Learning (ML) suggestions without the need to define entry points or use custom patterns. Creating application services prescribed by ML helps to speed up the time to value and map services with higher fidelity while using less manual effort.

 

2023-10-26 by ServiceNow Community

Service Mapping Leading Practices, Part 1

In this session, you will learn about Service Mapping leading practices from our experts.

 

2023-12-14 by ServiceNow Community

Service Mapping Leading Practices, Part 2

Join this live webinar to learn about Service Mapping leading practices from our experts.

 

 

 

Troubleshooting

 

Known Error Portal

 

Pre-configured filter for the respective topic. Remove the query string or modify the filters on the left side if you want to narrow down the search results in a different way.

 

 

Selected Articles

 

Service Mapping Troubleshooting process (KB0657597 🔒)

Service Mapping | Background Flow (KB0726311 🔒)

Service Mapping License Usage tracking (KB0812211 🔒)

Service Mapping Home page issue (KB0967140 🔒)

Comments
supriyarajp
Tera Contributor

In my project, Traffic based mapping was implemented . On the dashboard, i can see Horizontal Discovery errors under readiness check list. But i am unable to identify the endpoint information and also whatever was implemented is accurate or not.

 

What would be the best way for me to start since i will be doing this for the first time

 

 

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