The ServiceNow Discovery spoke allows you to configure horizontal discovery in a flow designer thereby providing the ability to drive several kind of business logics via the no code approach. You could use it for use cases like triggering a discovery...
Pre and Post Provision operation with Templates In this article we will see how to do pre and post provision operations with the templates. The flow would be like this: Create a catalog item and ingest a template.Add a Pre-Provision operation. In thi...
Introducing ServiceNow Service Graph What is Service Graph? Service Graph is the next-generation system of record for digital products and services. It is the digital data foundation for using ServiceNow's platform and products. Historically, th...
ECS plugin - Rome upgrade changes With the recent Rome upgrade ServiceNow has added support for using multiple credential stores at once. Previously, only one CredentialResolver.jar extension could be shared to a Mid-Server. This meant, that you coul...
Now, i have not found any summary of this topic. Essentially, when the discovery is used in conjunction with an external credential store you may find a huge performance impact when using SNMPv1/v2 credentials. This is a short why and how to work aro...
NOTE: This procedure enables TLS with built-in/self-signed certificates. For production deployment you should follow your company’s standard PKI practices regarding certificate configuration. The instructions in this article are provided as-is, wit...
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...
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