Combined Configuration Management Database (CMDB) release notes for upgrades from Xanadu to Yokohama
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Summary of Combined Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Release Notes for Upgrades from Xanadu to Yokohama
This consolidated release notes guide assists ServiceNow customers in preparing for upgrades of the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) from the Xanadu release to the Yokohama release. It summarizes key features, changes, role access updates, deprecations, removals, and important upgrade considerations across these releases. The document highlights enhancements to CMDB Workspace, CMDB Health, Data Certification, and integration with generative AI applications like Now Assist, enabling improved management, accuracy, and usability of CMDB data.
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Key Features
- Enhanced CMDB Workspace: Introduction of a comprehensive CI form showing detailed attributes, relationships, tags, health state, and CMDB 360 data, with capabilities to modify CI details directly within the workspace (available since Xanadu 7.6 and enhanced in Yokohama 8.0).
- Data Certification Dashboard: Accessible in CMDB Workspace, providing insights into certification activities, policies, progress, and workload management for data quality assurance.
- Unified Map Improvements: Ability to save and share Unified Map filter presets, manage CI relationships visually, and view detailed summary data for maps, enhancing collaboration and visibility.
- Separation of Archival Processes: Certification policy records now have distinct archival and destruction rules, supporting longer retention for audit and compliance purposes, with specific archive rules configured for certification data.
- CMDB Health Dashboard Modernization: Rebuilt using UI Builder components and integrated into CMDB Workspace with improved UI/UX and CI health reporting on CI forms.
- Service Graph Connector (SGC) Central View: Introduced in CMDB Workspace to manage connector life cycles including discovery, installation, monitoring, and debugging.
- Generative AI Integration - Now Assist: New applications Now Assist for CMDB and Now Assist for SGC provide AI-powered skills such as CI summarization, duplicate CI management with guided remediation, and SGC diagnosis to streamline CMDB data management and connector troubleshooting.
- Manual CI Creation with IRE Validation: Ability to create CIs manually in CMDB Workspace with mandatory attribute enforcement and uniqueness checks via Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE), ensuring data integrity.
- Performance and Filtering Enhancements: Additional filters applied to CMDB 360 dashboards and discovery sources to optimize performance and allow focused data analysis.
- CI Health Reporting and Certification Improvements: Bulk certification/failure of records, refined CI timeline error handling, and preservation of dot-walking settings during certification policy conversions.
Key Changes and Role Access Updates
- Role Access Restrictions: Starting with Xanadu Patch 9 and Yokohama Patch 4, the
sncmdbeditorandsncmdbadminroles no longer have create, update, or delete permissions on thecmdbcitable by default. Customers must manually run a scheduled job to restore necessary permissions for CMDB Workspace tasks. - CMDB Health Simplification: Removal of overall health scores, weighted averages, and some widgets to streamline health reporting with clear separation of compliant vs. non-compliant CI data.
- Dashboard and Metric Improvements: Introduction of new filters and options to better manage performance impacts from metrics and dashboards related to CMDB and Common Service Data Model (CSDM) data foundations.
- Application Service Dashboard Updates: Queries now include records classified explicitly as Application Service, improving accuracy in filtering application services.
- Table Label Changes: Some table labels were updated for clarity, such as
cmdbciserviceautonow labeled "Service Instance".
Removed and Deprecated Features
- Removed Features: Legacy CMDB Health Dashboard on Core UI, CI dashboard, certain widgets in CMDB Workspace CI Health tile, and some drill-down capabilities in CSDM dashboards are no longer supported or included in new instances.
- Deprecated Features: Data Certification plugin (com.snc.certificationv2) will be phased out in favor of CMDB Workspace capabilities. The ServiceNow hosted Service Graph Connector for ExtraHop is deprecated and replaced by the Service Graph Connector for ExtraHop application. CMDB Data Manager on Core UI is deprecated with CMDB Workspace providing the latest experience.
Upgrade and Activation Notes
- New indexes on the
cmdbrelcitable introduced in Yokohama enhance Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE) query performance but may increase upgrade time; ServiceNow provides guidance to minimize impact. - Certain CMDB Health dashboard jobs are deactivated during upgrades and must be manually reactivated post-upgrade to resume CI relationship health reporting.
- Bookmarks for some legacy dashboards may no longer work after upgrade; alternative access is available within CMDB Workspace.
- CMDB is a ServiceNow AI Platform feature active by default in both Xanadu and Yokoh
Consolidated page of all release notes for Configuration Management Database (CMDB) from Xanadu to Yokohama.
How to use this page
To help you prepare for your upgrade, we have combined the cross-family Configuration Management Database (CMDB) release notes onto one page. Read this summary of the new features, changes, and updated information for your product from Xanadu to Yokohama.
Important information for upgrading Configuration Management Database (CMDB) to Yokohama
Before you upgrade to Yokohama, review these pre- and post-upgrade tasks and complete the tasks as needed.
| Release | Release notes |
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Xanadu |
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Yokohama |
Three new indexes (parent, type), (child, type), and (child, parent, type, port) are added to the CI Relationship [cmdb_rel_ci] table to improve the performance of Identification and Reconciliation Engine (IRE) querying this table. This change is likely to increase upgrade time. For more information about the impact of this change during upgrade and to learn how to minimize that impact, see Increased Yokohama Upgrade Time due to cmdb_rel_ci index additions [KB1703367]. |
New features
Between your current release family and Yokohama, new features were introduced for Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
| Release | Release notes |
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Xanadu |
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Yokohama |
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Changes
Between your current release family and Yokohama, some changes were made to existing Configuration Management Database (CMDB) features.
| Release | Release notes |
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Xanadu |
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Yokohama |
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Removed
Between your current release family and Yokohama, some Configuration Management Database (CMDB) features or functionality were removed.
| Release | Release notes |
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Xanadu |
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Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Deprecations
Between your current release family and Yokohama, some Configuration Management Database (CMDB) features or functionality were deprecated.
| Release | Release notes |
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Xanadu |
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Yokohama |
CMDB Data manager on Core UI is now deprecated and no longer supported or available for new activation. CMDB Workspace provides the latest experience for this functionality. For more information, see CMDB Data Manager experience in CMDB Workspace. |
Activation information
Review information on how to activate Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
| Release | Release notes |
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Xanadu |
CMDB is a ServiceNow AI Platform feature that is active by default. |
Yokohama |
CMDB is a ServiceNow AI Platform feature that is active by default. |
Additional requirements
If any additional requirements were introduced or changed for Configuration Management Database (CMDB) we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
|---|---|
Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Browser requirements
If any specific browser requirements were introduced or changed for Configuration Management Database (CMDB) we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
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Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Accessibility information
Review details on accessibility information for Configuration Management Database (CMDB), such as specific requirements or compliance levels.
| Release | Release notes |
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Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
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Localization information
If there are specific localization considerations for Configuration Management Database (CMDB) we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
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Xanadu |
No updates for this release. |
Yokohama |
No updates for this release. |
Highlight information
If there are specific highlight considerations for Configuration Management Database (CMDB) we have noted them here.
| Release | Release notes |
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Xanadu |
See Configuration Management for more information. |
Yokohama |
See Configuration Management for more information. |