This is in regards to the legacy CI identifiers used prior to the Geneva
release and without Service Mapping. For information on how to handle
this scenario using the new CI identifiers, please refere...
The ability to describe sets of data in JSON format is a natural
extension to the JavaScript language. ServiceNow supports a web service
interface that operates on the JSON object as the data input an...
At the end of my Seeking Approval article, I promised one on handling
the rejection path of an approval. I was thinking that I would go into
detail on how to use a rollback activity and the pitfalls y...
We've updated our Discovery playlist with our most recent videos! You
can view the Discovery playlist here.This playlist now
includes:Troubleshooting a Down ServiceNow MID ServerHow to Set Up a MID
Se...
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I've used the the phrase "Approval activities" frequently in this
Seeking Approval series. If you open the Workflow Editor and load a
workflow that uses a Task table as its current record, you will se...
In Part 1 of this series, I covered the basics of how workflow approval
activities work. This time, I'm going to peel back the covers a bit
more, and look at the difference between approvals for recor...
Automating an approval process is a common use case for workflow, but
can sometimes lead people into difficulties. I thought it would useful
to explain how the different approval activities work, and ...
We recently published a new MID Server video! Whether they have been
active for some time or are being deployed for the first time, MID
Servers can go down. This video explains common Windows service ...
In the video, I cover the basics for setting up a PowerShell activity.
We'll look at the PowerShell script as well as the workflow and a quick
demo. I'll briefly touch on best practices for the situat...
Affected CustomersAll customers that have Discovery and SCCM (above 3.0)
installed are affected by this issue. If you are an affected customer
with a decent size CMDB, this fix will significantly impr...
Affected CustomersOnly customers that are on Eureka and have Discovery
and Software Asset Management installed are affected by this issue.
Problem SymptomsInstalled Software are getting deleted out of...
Recently, upon talking to a colleague of mine (Chris Maloy), I realized
that there's not an Orchestration activity to allow running a command on
a MID server. Out of the box, there are SSH command act...
The Shazzam probe is used to try to get some initial information about
all of the IP's we are trying to scan, so it would be helpful if there
were some ways to make this run a little faster. You can s...