Quick start tests for Configuration Management Database (CMDB) (CMDB)
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Summary of Quick Start Tests for Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
This document provides quick start tests for validating the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) functionality after configuration changes, such as upgrades or application developments. Customers can copy and customize these tests to align with their instance-specific data. The CMDB plugin (com.snc.cmdb) and the CMDB - ATF Tests plugin (com.snc.cmdb.atf) must be activated to utilize these tests.
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Key Features
- Dependency Views Test Suite: Validates the functionality of Dependency Views APIs.
- CI Health Dashboard Test Suite: Checks the status of CMDB Health dashboard jobs and validates health inclusion rules.
- Identification Reconciliation Engine (IRE) Test Suite: Verifies CI identifiers and reconciliation definitions.
- Query Builder Test Suite: Confirms the functionality of creating, reading, and executing queries with specific user roles.
- Relationship Editor and Formatter Test Suite: Tests addition and deletion of relationships for Configuration Items (CIs) and the accuracy of displayed CI information.
- SDK REST API Test Suite: Validates various functionalities of CMDB REST APIs, including querying, creating, updating, and deleting CIs and relationships.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing these quick start tests, ServiceNow customers can ensure that their CMDB operates correctly post-configuration changes. These tests help maintain data integrity, facilitate effective relationship management, and support the monitoring of CI health, ultimately enhancing the efficiency of their IT operations.
Validate that Configuration Management Database (CMDB) still works after you make any configuration change such as apply an upgrade or develop an application. Copy and customize these quick start tests to pass when using your instance-specific data.
Configuration Management Database (CMDB) quick start tests require activating the Configuration Management (CMDB) plugin (com.snc.cmdb) and the CMDB - ATF Tests plugin (com.snc.cmdb.atf).
| Test | Description | Release version |
|---|---|---|
| CMDB BSM: Dependency Views | Test functionality of Dependency Views APIs. These APIs retrieve Dependency Views map and associated map items such as context menu items, for a given CI sys_id and using itil user role. | New York |
| Test | Description | Release version |
|---|---|---|
| CMDB HEALTH: Health Job Status | Checks whether any CMDB Health dashboard jobs, which were started 30 or more days ago, are still in progress. | New York |
| CMDB HEALTH: CMDB Health Completeness/ Recommended | Checks whether the CI dashboard is
functional for the recommended metric (included in
the CMDB Health completeness KPI). This test
validates:
|
New York |
| Test | Description | Release version |
|---|---|---|
| CMDB IRE: IRE Validation | Validate CI identifiers and reconciliation definitions and check indexes for CI identifiers. | Madrid |
| CMDB IRE: Reconciliation Rule | Check operations on a reconciliation rule, in CI Class Manager, using itil and itil_admin roles. Operations include create, edit, and delete a reconciliation rule. Also, check for active and not active setting, and derived rules. |
Paris |
| CMDB IRE: Identification Rule | Check operations on an identification rule, in CI Class Manager, using itil and itil_admin roles. Operations include create, edit, and delete an identification rule. Also, check for active and not active setting, and derived rules. |
Paris |
| Test | Description | Release version |
|---|---|---|
| CMDB QB: Query Builder - cmdb_query_builder Role | Verify that cmdb_query_builder user role can save queries, and access and run all saved queries, in CMDB Query Builder. | New York |
| CMDB QB: Query Builder - cmdb_query_builder_read Role | Verify that cmdb_query_builder_read user role can access and run all saved queries, and cannot save any query, in CMDB Query Builder. | New York |
| Test | Description | Release version |
|---|---|---|
| CMDB REL EDITOR:Relationship Editor | Check addition of relations to a CI and deletion of relations from a CI using itil user role. | New York |
| CMDB REL FORMATTER:Relationship Formatter | Check accuracy of CI information, relationship types, relationships, associated records such as change tickets, and settings such as CMDB views (relationship filters), displayed for a specific CI in relationship formatter using itil user role. | New York |
| Test | Description | Release version |
|---|---|---|
| CMDB SDK: Query CMDB Metadata | Test querying CMDB metadata. | New York |
| CMDB SDK: Create a relation for a CI using REST APIs | Test creation of a relationship for a CI in the CMDB using the CMDB REST APIs. | New York |
| CMDB SDK: Delete a relation for a CI using REST APIs | Test deletion of a relationship for a CI using CMDB REST APIs. | New York |
| CMDB SDK: Create a CI using REST API | Test creation of a CI using CMDB REST APIs. | New York |
| CMDB SDK: Query CMDB using REST APIs | Test querying the CMDB using CMDB REST APIs. | New York |
| CMDB SDK: Update a CI using REST APIs | Test updating of a CI using CMDB REST APIs. | New York |
| CMDB SDK: Query for a CI using REST APIs | Test querying a CI using CMDB REST APIs. | New York |