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# Architecture Compliance

# Architecture Compliance {#ariaid-title1}

Release version: Brazil  
Updated September 10, 2026  
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## Summary of Architecture Compliance

Architecture Compliance in ServiceNow enables automated audits of Configuration Management Database (CMDB) data to verify that configuration items (CIs), particularly servers, conform to your organization's defined physical resource standards such as CPU speed and memory.
This process helps ensure that CIs maintain compliance with expected attributes through scheduled or on-demand audits.
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## Key Features

* **Compliance Audits:** Automatically assess CIs against template-defined standards to identify discrepancies.
* **Templates and Filters:** Administrators create filters to select subsets of CIs and templates that define expected attributes for audits.
* **Audit Scheduling and Execution:** Audits can be scheduled or run on demand to generate compliance reports.
* **Discrepancy Management:** Audit results highlight CIs that fail certification and the specific attribute differences.
* **Automated Follow-On Tasks:** ServiceNow generates and assigns remediation tasks to appropriate users to address compliance issues.
* **Role-Based Access:** Access and configuration require the `certificationadmin` role, with additional roles needed for table-specific access during compliance resource assignment.

## How It Works

1. **Create Filters:** Define which CIs to audit by creating filters on the `Configuration Item [cmdbci]` table or its extensions.
2. **Create Templates:** Define expected CI attributes and conditions that specify compliance criteria.
3. **Run Audits:** Schedule or execute audits to compare actual CI attributes against the template conditions.
4. **Review Results:** Examine audit reports to identify compliant and non-compliant CIs along with discrepancies.
5. **Remediate:** Complete automatically assigned follow-on tasks to correct discrepancies and restore compliance.

## Practical Benefits for ServiceNow Customers

By implementing Architecture Compliance, customers can maintain accurate and reliable CMDB data that aligns with organizational standards, reduce configuration drift, and automate the remediation workflow. This leads to improved operational efficiency, better governance of IT assets, and enhanced risk management through continuous compliance verification.  
Architecture Compliance manages scheduled or on-demand audits of CMDB data to determine which configuration items (CI) match expected attributes. The compliance audits check servers to ensure that their physical resources, such as CPU speed or memory, comply
with certain standards.
The compliance process checks servers to ensure that their resources, such as CPU speed or
memory, comply with standards set by your organization. Audit reports show any discrepancies in
the attributes of the target CIs, and ServiceNow automatically assigns
follow-on tasks to qualified users who can remediate those discrepancies.
The administrator responsible for compliance checking creates template definitions of expected
attributes and then schedules an audit to check CIs for compliance. The audit results identify
CIs that pass certification and itemize the discrepancies in those CIs that fail. ServiceNow automatically generates and assigns follow-on tasks to track the
process of getting the CIs back into compliance. Users with the admin role activate Architecture
Compliance.

## Architecture Compliance roles {#c_ArchitectureCompliance__section_pd5_swv_mqb}

To access or configure certification elements, a user must have the certification_admin role.
These users can create, update, and delete filters if they have the proper access to necessary
tables.  
In the base system, certification_admin users have limited system rights and do not have access to all the necessary tables. When assigning compliance resources, make sure to grant additional roles to the certification_admin user as needed. For example, the certification administrator needs roles that grant access to these tables:

* Company `[core_company]`
* Cost Center `[cmn_cost_center]`
* Schedule `[cmn_schedule]`
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## Architecture Compliance Process {#c_ArchitectureCompliance__section_c5x_nxv_mqb}

Perform these tasks in this order to certify configuration items with Architecture Compliance.

1. Create a filter. Create a filter that defines a subset of configuration items to
   certify. You can create multiple versions of a filter, and then activate the version you want
   to use for compliance checking. Architecture compliance only supports filters on the
   Configuration Item \[cmdb_ci\] table and all tables that extend it.

2. Create a template. Create template conditions using values from reference fields in a
   related list or conditions that define the expected physical attributes of each CI in an
   audit. The template uses a filter to determine which configuration items the system examines
   based on these conditions.

3. Create and run an audit. Create and schedule an audit or run an audit on demand. The
   audit generates a set of results based on the conditions in the template you
   specify.

4. View audit results.View the audit results which display any discrepancies between the
   expected state, as expressed by the template conditions, and the actual state of the target
   configuration items.

5. Correct discrepancies.Correct the discrepancies the audit found by completing the
   follow-on tasks created by the system.

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