Operational Technology Incident Management release notes
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Summary of Operational Technology Incident Management release notes
The ServiceNow Operational Technology (OT) Incident Management application helps engineers efficiently resolve issues related to OT devices and production processes. The Australia release introduces new features and enhancements aimed at improving incident context understanding, automating resolution documentation, and simplifying incident reporting.
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Key Features
- OT Incident Summarization Skill: Automatically generate concise summaries of OT incidents using the new Summarize UI action within the Industrial Workspace, helping engineers quickly grasp incident context and respond effectively.
- Automated Resolution Notes: Generate detailed resolution notes automatically after an incident is marked as Resolved, streamlining documentation and knowledge retention.
- Agentic Workflow for KB Article Generation: When an OT incident is resolved, the system can automatically create a Knowledge Base (KB) article containing key details such as site, OT device, equipment model entity, summarization, and resolution notes. This enhances knowledge sharing and incident resolution reference.
- Employee Center for OT: Enables users without an OT incident role to report incidents easily via the Employee Center using the new Report OT Incident catalog item, broadening access to incident reporting capabilities.
- Granular Admin Roles: New admin roles allow developers to perform specific configuration tasks without needing full admin privileges, improving security and role management.
Activation and Integration
Operational Technology Incident Management is available through the ServiceNow Store and must be requested for installation. It integrates with ServiceNow IT Service Management to enhance OT issue resolution and with the Industrial Process Manager to leverage ISA-95 Equipment Model data foundational for industrial solutions.
ServiceNow AI Platform Licensing
The release introduces three AI licensing tiers—Foundation, Advanced, and Prime—that determine access to AI capabilities including generative AI skills, agentic workflows, and AI agents, supporting various levels of automation and productivity enhancement.
The ServiceNow® Operational Technology Incident Management application enables engineers to resolve Operational Technology (OT) device and production process issues. Operational Technology Incident Management was enhanced and updated in the Australia release.
Operational Technology Incident Management highlights for the Australia release
- Quickly understand the OT incident context and respond to user inquiries by using the OT incident summarization skill.
- Help save time by automatically updating the resolution notes for an OT incident.
- Generate a KB article when an OT incident is resolved by using an agentic workflow.
- Report an OT incident without an OT incident role using the Employee Center for OT.
See Operational Technology Incident Management for more information.
New in the Australia release
- Australia Patch 1
- ServiceNow product tiers
- The ServiceNow AI Platform now brings you a new AI experience with three licensing tiers available:
- Foundation: AI basics to deliver insights
- Advanced: AI to boost productivity across relevant use cases
- Prime: Act autonomously with all AI assets and create your own
Depending on your entitlements, you will have access to certain application features, generative AI skills, agentic workflows, and AI agents.
- Early Availability
- Summarize an Operational Technology incident by using Now Assist for Operational Technology Service Management (OTSM)
- Automatically summarize an OT incident using the Summarize UI action to produce a concise summary of the incident.
- Generate resolution notes for an Operational Technology incident
- Automatically generate resolution notes for an OT incident using the Generate resolution notes UI action to produce a concise summary of the incident.
- Generate OT KB articles agentic workflow
- Automatically generate a KB article for an OT incident when the state of the incident is set to Resolved. The article contains the following information:
- Site
- OT Device
- Equipment model entity
- Summarization
- Resolution notes
- KB Base
- Author
- Use the Employee Center for OT to report an OT incident
- Create an OT incident as a user without an OT incident role with the Report OT incident item in the Employee Center for OT.
UI changes
- Australia
- Summarize UI action
- The Summarize UI action was added to OT incident records in the Industrial Workspace so you can automatically summarize the incident details.
- Generate resolution notes UI action
- The Generate resolution notes UI action was added to OT incident records in the Industrial Workspace so you can generate resolution notes after the incident state is set to Resolved.Note:This UI action appears after the OT incident state is set to Resolved.
- Catalog item for reporting an OT incident
- The Report OT incident item has been added to the OT Service Catalog for use in the Employee Center for OT.
Changed in this release
- Admin role dependency
- Several new granular admin roles have been added, which enable developers to complete administrative configuration tasks without requiring the full admin role.
Activation information
Install Operational Technology Incident Management by requesting it from the ServiceNow Store. Visit the ServiceNow Store to view all the available apps, and for information about submitting requests to the store. For cumulative release notes information for all released apps, see the ServiceNow Store version history release notes.