ITSM Virtual Agent pre-built LLM topics
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Summary of ITSM Virtual Agent pre-built LLM topics
ITSM Virtual Agent provides a collection of pre-built Large Language Model (LLM) topic conversations designed to streamline common IT service management tasks. These topics help users complete activities such as checking ticket status, resetting passwords, managing approvals, and monitoring device health. The LLMs identify user intent and trigger the appropriate actions efficiently within the Virtual Agent interface.
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The pre-built LLM topics are read-only templates that can be duplicated and customized to align with your company’s naming conventions and requirements. They complement pre-built Natural Language Understanding (NLU) topics, which are managed separately.
Key Features
- Ticket and Support Status Management: Users can check the status of IT tickets and support cases interactively. For HR cases, specific admin permissions are required for access.
- Approval Handling: Users can view pending approvals and take actions to approve or reject requests directly through the Virtual Agent.
- Device Health Monitoring: Integration with Digital End-User Experience (DEX) allows users to monitor and diagnose device performance issues. Installation of DEX is required.
- Change Risk Explanation: Quickly generate explanations for change request risk ratings using built-in skills in Now Assist for ITSM.
- Service Disruption Information: Users can inquire about outages and system degradations and receive detailed information on planned or unplanned disruptions.
- Password Reset and Account Management: Supports password reset, change, and account unlock actions. Both logged-in and logged-out users can initiate relevant password processes. Multiple verification methods are supported, including personal data, Google Authenticator, SMS, email codes, and security questions.
- Actionable Notifications: Pre-built notifications for requested items (RITMs), incidents, and task approvals enable interactive communication and prompt user actions from messages related to approvals, comments, and incident status changes.
Practical Considerations for Customers
- To customize any pre-built LLM topic, duplicate it within the ITSM Virtual Agent conversation scope and rename it as needed.
- Enable password reset processes in Virtual Agent by activating the related plugins and configuration options.
- Activate actionable notifications through Workflow Studio to send interactive messages related to tasks, approvals, and incidents.
- Ensure relevant plugins such as Digital End-User Experience (DEX) and Password Reset are installed to utilize related topics fully.
- Note that some topics are marked as (DEMO) or deprecated, indicating demonstration purposes or phased-out features.
Benefits
By leveraging these pre-built LLM topics, ServiceNow customers can enhance user experience through conversational AI that simplifies ITSM interactions. This reduces manual effort, accelerates issue resolution, improves visibility into service requests and approvals, and strengthens password security workflows.
ITSM Virtual Agent includes pre-built Large Language Model (LLM) topic conversations designed to help your users complete the common IT-related tasks such as checking and resetting a password.
LLMs are used to identify and trigger the action that a user wants to perform.
ITSM Virtual Agent pre-built LLM topics are read only and have (Template) as the suffix in their name. To use them, duplicate the topic in the ITSM Virtual Agent conversation scope and rename it according to your company naming conventions.
| Check Ticket and Support Status |
Check the status of your IT tickets and support cases. Once the conversation is initiated, it progresses by collecting data about the ticket one question at a time.
Note: For HR cases, an Admin must allow Core RCA records for Read operation and Write operation.
See Requested restricted caller access (RCA) for more information. |
| Show Pending Approvals |
Check pending approvals that are needed to take action upon and pick those to be processed. You can either Approve or Reject your tickets by picking the list numbers provided to you by the Virtual Agent. |
| Check your device's health using Digital End-User Experience (DEX) | Use the Now Assist for ITSM Virtual Agent to monitor your device's performance and diagnose potential issues. See Check device health using Now Assist for ITSM Virtual Agent for more information. Important: You must install DEX to perform this action. See Install Digital End-User Experience for more information. |
| (DEMO) Explain change risk | Quickly generate the explanation of the calculated risk rating for a change request by using the change request risk explanation skill in the Now Assist for IT Service Management (ITSM) application. |
Core ITSM topics
| (DEMO) Check IT Ticket Status (Template) |
Check the status of your IT ticket. Once the conversation is initiated, it progresses by collecting data about the ticket one question at a time. |
| (Deprecated) Escalate IT Ticket |
Raise the urgency of your IT ticket for a faster resolution. Escalating a ticket priority requires choosing the incident and verifying the escalation. Users must provide a justification to escalate the incident. Virtual Agent escalates the incident to the next urgency level. For example, from low to medium, or from medium to high. If an incident is already at high-level urgency, Virtual Agent alerts the user to this and asks if the user would like to add a comment to help expedite resolution. |
| (DEMO) Open IT Ticket (Template)-LLM |
Open a ticket leveraging machine-learning algorithms with application logic for predicting similar open tickets. Prevent users from opening duplicate incidents by finding similar incidents and asking if the user wants to add comments to the similar incident. |
| Service Disruptions |
Access all known outage information. When a user asks if a particular system is down, Virtual Agent returns a list of links displaying planned or unplanned outages and any system degradations. Users can click the links for more detailed information about a specific outage or degradation, as well as click Show more when additional outages are known. |
Password reset topics
End users can initiate a password management conversation with Virtual Agent by entering the keywords Reset, Change, Unlock, or Password.
Users who aren’t logged in can perform the Reset Password and Unlock Account actions. Users who are logged in can perform the Change Password, Reset Password, and Unlock Password actions.
- Password Reset (com.glideapp.password_reset) plugin
- Password Reset Virtual Agent Conversations (com.snc.password_reset.virtual_agent) plugin
For more information about the password reset process, see Password Reset for Virtual Agent.
| (DEMO) Change Password (Template)-LLM |
Request to change your user password. User must be logged in. |
| (DEMO) Reset Password (Template) - LLM |
Request to reset your user password. |
| (DEMO) Unlock Account (Template) - LLM |
Request to verify your locked user account. |
- Personal data verification: User provides specific pieces of personal data.
- Google Authenticator verification: User enters the generated code from the Google service Authenticator mobile app.
- SMS code verification: User enters the code received via a mobile text message.
- Email code verification: User enters the code received via email.
- Security question verification: User enters the configured security question answers.
For more information, see Configure your Password Reset process.
Actionable notification topics
ITSM Virtual Agent includes pre-built actionable notifications used to send interactive messages to a user based on pending tasks or alerts, such as RITM and request notifications, task approval notifications, and incident notifications.
| Topic | Actionable notification |
|---|---|
| RITM View Comment |
Notification: Requested Item commented Sent to the approver of a Service Catalog request. |
| RITM Add Comments |
Notification: Requested item on behalf of requester Sent to the end user when a Service Catalog request is opened on the end user's behalf. |
| View Request Details for Approver |
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| View RITM Details For Approver |
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| View RITM Details For Requester |
Notification: Requested item on behalf of requester Sent to the end user when a Service Catalog request is opened on the end user's behalf. |
| Topic | Actionable notification |
|---|---|
| (DEMO) Add Comment To Incident-LLM | Notification: Incident on behalf of caller Sent to end users whenever an incident is opened on their behalf. |
| (DEMO) Close Incident-LLM | Notification: Incident resolved Sent to end users whenever one of their incidents is resolved by someone other than the end user. |
| (DEMO) Mark Incident Unresolved-LLM | Notification: Incident resolved Sent to end users whenever one of their incidents is resolved by someone other than the end user. |
| (DEMO) View And Add Comments-LLM | Notification: Incident commented Sent to end users whenever a comment is added to their incident by someone other than the end user. |
| (DEMO) Resolve Incident-LLM |
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| Topic | Actionable notification |
|---|---|
| Approve Sysapproval Approver |
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| (DEMO) Reject Sysapproval Approver-LLM | |
| Show Approval Details |