The Agent Client Collector Monitoring app (or "ACC-M") can be extended to use a multitude of monitoring scripts and plugins. This is an example of how to do so using a Nagios plugin. Preamble This process will largely follow the same steps I outlin...
Why Entrust Certificate Discovery Fails? Issue Description: Check whether the root certificate is downloading or not. How to check the Entrust root certificate is downloading or not? Answer: Here is the Root certificate dow...
Ran into an issue where I didn't find anything on the community hence this post. Working on an instance that had a lot of pre-existing CI's in their CMDB and I was trying to setup their CMDB Health Dashboard. Specifically, I was trying to resolve a...
Disclaimer: the methodology and code presented in this article is unsupported and comes with no express or implied warranty. Use at your own risk. As I covered in an earlier article (here), the ACC-M monitoring capability can be extended and augment...
A common question which comes up in CMDB/Discovery discussions is "how do I create my own class of CI and enable it to be discovered?". This article will walk through the steps involved with doing just that. The basic premise is that you want to tra...
CMP interacts with cloud during Discovery, Provisioning, Day-2 operations and Lifecyclye events. In all these cases, it needs to write data back into CMDB. Some times it is about state, some times it is the whole kitchen sink. CMP uses a mechanism ca...
How ServiceNow Predictive AIOps can help with Facebook’s outage By Lisa Wolfe, Eytan Chamovitz, Dor Juraski, Aleck Lin, Jimmy Yuan According to Santosh Janardhan, the VP of infrastructure at Facebook, their recent 6 hour outage was caused by config...
Introduction: Using a IAC approach for provisioning cloud resources brings agility, speed and autonomy to dev team. However they need to use adapted parameters to complete the IAC templates and deploy effectively their resources into the cloud like: ...
Issue: "name" field of software installations/software packages is not consistent for different versions of Visual C++ packages.Some include version, some doesn't, and some has "-" at the end. For example: Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - ...
Introduction One of the first use cases I set up in Health Log Analytics (“HLA”) was to ingest Linux system logs (e.g. “/var/log/*”) using Filebeat. As it happens, one of the more verbose services writing to /var/log/messages on a default CentOS ser...
Template Execution: Dynamic Discovery of New Resource Types One of the biggest advantages of CMP/CPG is the ability to ingest cloud-native (CFT, ARM, GDM etc) and multi-cloud (terraform) templates and create standard offerings for the end user to con...
Hello Experts, The article gives brief knowledge on Agent Client Collector (ACC) which is built on a Sensu framework that enables you to adapt and extend monitoring checks. Monitoring collects data on your infrastructure. Checks and policies run on t...
Recently i found that when it comes to Citrix Netscaler discovery, sometimes the naming conventions for the CI is same for all the devices. This happens when the Citrix Netscaler is not configured with proper name or left as default and during disco...
In Part 1 of this series, I described how to use platform features to capture time duration of record state with the outcome of creating duration-based KPIs like Mean Time to Detect (MTTD). The approach described in the first article requires a tabl...
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) drive process improvement and operational awareness for the current performance of a system. As it relates to the area of AIOps, KPIs come in many forms because of the broad range of capabilities an AIOps environmen...
DESCRIPTION In Paris, we've shipped an enhancement that considers not just Public IP, for Deep Discovery post-Cloud Discovery of Cloud Schedule, but to consider even the Private IPs. Some of the queries are added in the script include - "CloudDiscove...
Introduction Cloud Provisioning and Governance enables users to quickly standup cloud resources using templates, however in many cases provisioning is only the beginning. Business processes may need to be executed before a resource is provisioned, a...
If you are a Docker enthusiast who works in the ServiceNow world then this news might be interesting to you. From Rome ServiceNow officially released 'Containerized MID Server'. Before there was an unofficial one from moers which also worked fine and...
This share update extends Cloud Provisioning and Governance support for Terraform 0.14.x. Release Features: Terraform 0.14.x version support.HCL Type variables in Terraform - Support for Structured data types in templates such as List and Map.Sensit...
My home on-prem MID server, mounted under my desk NOTE: the procedures described within are not supported by ServiceNow Introduction - a Micro-MID? A key component to the power of the ServiceNow platform is the MID server. This device is what provi...
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