SpoilerDiscovery is often blamed for CMDB chaos, but in most cases it behaves exactly as designed. This article explains why Identification and Reconciliation is the real architectural control point in ITOM.Discovery is often blamed for CMDB chaos, ...
SpoilerMany ITOM initiatives struggle not because of missing features, but because of weak architectural foundations. This article explores why ITOM success depends on governance, data trust, and design decisions — not simply enabling modules.Many IT...
1. Start with ITOM Fundamentals: What, Why, and HowBefore diving into automation, AIOps, or advanced mapping, make sure the core concepts are solid:What is IT Operations Management (ITOM) within ServiceNow?Understand the difference between:ITOM Visib...
1. Credential Strategy (Most Common Failure Point)Discovery on Linux lives or dies by credentials.Best practicesPrefer SSH key-based authentication over password.Use a dedicated technical account (not personal users).Grant least privilege, but ensure...
Has anyone successfylly discovered a Dell Unity - 480F Storage Device. Have created the Basic Auth credentials. But it is not being discovered. Raised a support ticket and support says that Dell Unity is not supported out of the Box patterns. Was ...
Hi, I found a couple of articles related Exadata Discovery including a good document with all the steps someone else used to discover all the Exadata components (link below).https://www.servicenow.com/community/itom-forum/here-s-how-you-can-discover-...
Can the length of Discovery Schedule "Name" field be increased? The default is 100 characters, but we are needing to exceed that in some cases to conform to naming convention used by Network team in their IPAM tool, and wanted to check to see if anyo...
Hi, So, I am using this catalog client scriptfunction onChange(control, oldValue, newValue, isLoading) { if (isLoading || !newValue) return; var ga = new GlideAjax('AccountSTOChecker'); ga.addParam('sysparm_name', 'checkStoreOrder'); ga.a...
Hi @allI have enabled the create task for staleness metric and ran the correctness health job but still tasks are not getting created for staleness what could be the possible issue? how much time will take to create the tasks for all Stale CIs? ...
Hello, I created an UI action, it is visible and working in native UI but in workspace it is visible and even creating a new record(as per the functionality) but it is not landing to the proper new record correctly.What should I give in the script to...
Hi Team,Could you please help me identify which fields in the alm_asset table are populated from Discovery Source?We have already identified the data coming from Oracle (for reference, I have attached the screenshot). However, we are unable to determ...
Every time I try to validate this task "Create iTunes Discovery Pattern (Part 2)"I get this error message "Did you check the steps in the identification section are configured and tested correctly"I'm pretty certain I've done the steps properly Pleas...
I followed the steps listed in the task to perform Quick Discovery, but the task did not complete.Please tell me the cause.iTunes does not appear in the ECC queue. https://learning.servicenow.com/lxp/ja/pages/learning-course?id=learning_course&course...
We have a requirement where we need to filter out certain Alerts from impacting the Service Instance. Is there a way to achieve this out of the box? We're using Dynamic Mapping with Calculated Application Services.
Anyone have ideas on how to resolve this error with Azure Cloud Discovery? Here are the logs for Step 5 of the 'Azure Service account' pattern.We're on Yokohama Patch 1, Discovery Patterns plugin is at the latest version. "name" : "5 Get Azure Subscr...