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Subscription management for ITSM pro: Unallocated subscriptions for users with itil role

Smith Johnson
Kilo Sage

Hi experts,


I have a question for subscription management.

We have a subscription for ITSM pro with 355 purchased subscriptions.

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I see that one of the associated roles of the ITSM pro is "itil".

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28 users have currently this role.

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However, when I review the subscription management dashboard, I see that the subscribed users are 0.

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Plus the following insight message for the 355 unallocated subscriptions.

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Any ideas why the number of itil users is not reflected in the subscription management?
Why we see the message of unallocated subscriptions, even if people are actually working with incidents, etc.?

Thank you,
Smith.

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Kieran Anson
Kilo Patron

You need to allocate users to the subscription. ServiceNow won't automatically do this. 

The best way to do this is to provide access to a group, and then under the "subscribed groups" related list, add in the group. Personally I do this by having a sys_user_group with a type of 'security' and only allow itil to be granted via it, rather than adding itil to a resolver group 

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Thank you for your great comments and suggestions, Kieran.

Hi Kieran - this is exactly what I have been doing but in Subscription Management  v2, some of the new security groups I have created which each have one of the ITSM related roles (like knowledge, incident_manager, change_manager  etc.) are not appearing in the group picker. Only the group I have created so far with the ITIL role is appearing, but I do have several other users that are not given that role but do have one of the other roles counted as a fulfiller. So I'm not sure why I can't also add these other groups to the subscription. 

 

I added the related list "Subscription Groups" to sys_user_group and I can then link a group to my ITSM Pro subscription, but ServiceNow doesn't add the users in that group to the Subscribed Users list when I do it this way. The only way I have found so far that ServiceNow will add people to the Subscribed Users list is if I allocate groups via the group picker in Subscription Management. So I'm now stuck trying to add the additional fulfillers. Any ideas why the groups do not appear? 

I had difficulty adding the group with the group picker. Ultimately, I was able to add the group by navigating to the Subscription Groups table [group_has_subscription] and adding a  new record. 

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After adding the subscription group I was able to see it in the list in Subscription Management. 

 

Any users you add to that group will show up as Subscribed Users - though that didn't happen until the next business day.

On the Subscription dashboard, when I allocate groups that have been missed, will this have any impact other than for reporting?

Hi Gary, no this will not impact as ServiceNow runs a separate usage report when billing customers. It is best practise to always check your subscription management daily and update the Per-User subscriptions to ensure any new groups added into ServiceNow are then synced and updated across subscription management. This will help give you the latest consumption report.