Suggested steps generation in Now Assist for IT Service Management (ITSM)

Generate suggested steps automatically by analyzing clusters of closed incidents with similar incident resolution in the Now Assist for IT Service Management (ITSM) application.

Before you begin

Important:

Starting with the Australia release, the Suggested steps skill is being prepared for future deprecation. It will be hidden and no longer installed on new instances but will continue to be supported. For details, see the Deprecation Process [KB0867184] article in the Now Support Knowledge Base. This feature is being replaced with Learning Enhanced Automation Platform (LEAP). For information on how to get started see, How to get started with LEAP.

To transition to LEAP:

1. Install the LEAP (sn_itom_leap) plugin.
2. Activate the LEAP installer skill.
   Note:

   You must be in LEAP scope to activate this skill.
   1. Go to Admin > Now Assist Admin.
   2. Select Now Assist Skills.
   3. In Technology, select ITOM.
   4. Activate the LEAP installer plugin.
3. Add the itil role to access LEAP.
   1. In the LEAP installer, in the Define access screen, add the itil role in the Roles field.
   2. Select Save and continue.

Role required: itil

Important:

If you are using LEAP, you also need the LEAP agent (sn_itom_leap.leap_agent) role. For more information, see Components installed with LEAP.

About this task

Data from the short description field and the filter conditions set in the incident input table are used to generate the clusters based on similar past resolved incidents. By default, the Suggested steps skills are configured to work with itil roles. With Named Access Accounts (NAA), you can restrict access to this skill for a different role. However, itil is still required because the Group-Action framework skills used by Suggested Steps enables to access the incidents. For most scenarios, changing the ACL role on Now Assist Admin is sufficient. However, you can also restrict individual skills to specific roles. For information on troubleshooting steps to resolve issues with the Suggested steps generation skill, see Troubleshoot Suggested steps generation skill set up.

Procedure

1. Navigate to Workspaces > Service Operations Workspace.
2. Using the List icon (), open an incident that is not in Closed or Complete state.
3. Select the Recommendations icon ().

   The steps to resolve the incident appear in a Recommendations pop-up window in the incident record. This action may take a few minutes.

   If	Then
   You're using LEAP	The LEAP Resolution Steps Recommendation will appear.
   You're using Suggested steps	The Suggested Steps recommendation will appear.