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Visibility to Nutanix

The hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) market has seen double-digit growth for the past few years and the market is consolidating with two dominant players, VMware and Nutanix. With the fast-paced c...

Service Mapping and Microsoft Windows Clusters

About Microsoft Cluster Servers Microsoft developed a clustering and failover ability for Microsoft Windows Servers. This is meant to provide to customers the ability to load balance Windows servers r...

Windows Discovery now requires PowerShell version 2.0 or higher (up to 5.0) installed on the Windows target host

If your Windows discovery taking a long time to complete and having errors like "PowershellProcessRunner was interrupted to complete in 600 seconds" in the classification or any other probe, read on. ...

Visibility to Google Cloud/IBM Cloud/Pivotal Cloud Foundry - Apr store release update

The ServiceNow out-of-band discovery content release offering is less than a year old but has already made a huge impact on deriving customer outcomes. The ServiceNow ITOM Discovery product team launc...

How to Use a Service Map

So your Service Mapping implementation is complete, and you've created a number of shiny new service maps. Congratulations! You've worked hard to make sure the maps are accurate and that they'll be ge...

Planning for a Successful CMDB Deployment - Insights from a Walmart's CMDB Expert (Part 2)

David Stefferud, from Walmart gets the full credit for this blog. The content of this and subsequent blogs is based on his Q&A from CMDB best practices webinar. You can read CMDB best practice on Serv...

How Are other ServiceNow Customers Deploying MID Servers?

I’ve recently had several customers approach me as they continue to expand their ServiceNow footprint across Discovery, Service Mapping and Event Management. The question I hear most is: “How do other...

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Planning for a Successful CMDB Deployment - Insights from a Walmart's CMDB Expert (Part1)

David Stefferud, from Walmart gets the full credit for this blog. The content of this and subsequent blogs is based on his Q&A from CMDB best practices webinar. You can read CMDB best practice on Serv...

Alert Correlation: Advanced Processing Example

"Noise reduction" ... "efficiency" ... "work on what matters" ... "get to root cause faster". These goals / aspirations / initiatives / or any other synonym for trying to achieve an outcome, are commo...

Building Out Your ITOM Support Team

What Happens After the Project Team Rides Off into the Sunset? Getting ITOM products implemented and providing value to your business is a huge deal: it can take a lot of work but provides even more b...

An Army of One - The Power of IT & Security Operations on a Common Platform

Picture this. It's 4:30 PM on a Friday and a critical vulnerability was just announced by a software vendor. The vendor states they are aware of the vulnerability and are actively working on a patch t...

How to Review a Service Map - A Guide for Service Owners

Chances are if you're reading this blog entry, here in the ITOM section of ServiceNow Community, you know your way around the platform and would be able to poke around a service map. However, many of ...

Take the hit....It's worth it!

Before joining the most innovative cloud company in the world I spent a significant portion of my professional life implementing discovery, cmdb, and other competitive product point solutions in a pos...

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