Is it possible to use data certification for non-cmdb tables?

[gunnergraves]

Hello,

Our organization uses Assignment Lookup tables to keep track of how CI's route to different support groups and what level of support they are currently with.   We were interested in using the Data Certification tasks to ask our process owners to verify the data in these tables on a regular basis.   Is it possible to use the data certification on non-cmdb tables?  

Thanks,
Gunner

[philmurray · Accepted solution]

Yes it is possible, you could theoretically use any table.   We use Data Certification to validate ServiceNow groups and roles which we regard as having elevated privileges, the owners get sent a list of members of each group and the pass (keep access) or fail (remove access) them.   You set it up in the same way but select the table you want - we use Group Member (sys_user_grmember) and we use the schedule function to send this out every 6 months.

[gunnergraves]

Thanks for your response Philip!   When I go into Data Certification to create a new Definition, there is a UI Policy on the TableName so that is what threw me off.   Does anyone know why this UI Policy is on the table field out of the box?  

[Krischan]

I ran into this today and was irritated. DC hasn't changed significantly since I first used it in 2012 or 13. The UI policy doesn't seem to have any sort of logic tied to it. Just makes sure, you cannot select a different table.

I did deactivate it and it works as it's supposed to be.

Reached out to my SNOW contacts about the "why".

I currently assumed that the intentionally want to limit the usage to CMDB because it's the most common use case.

regards

Christian

[Adam43]

Christian- did you figure out about the UI policy keeping the table limited to cmdb?  i'm in Rome and it's still there.....