Using ITSM Virtual Agent pre-built topics
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Summary of Using ITSM Virtual Agent pre-built topics
ITSM Virtual Agent provides a collection of pre-built conversational topics designed to streamline common IT-related tasks such as password resets, incident creation, and meeting management. These topics are read-only templates marked with (Template) that require duplication and renaming within your ITSM Virtual Agent conversation scope to customize them according to your organization's naming conventions and requirements. The conversations leverage Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models to accurately identify and initiate user-requested actions.
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Key Features
- Pre-built Topic Categories: Topics are organized into categories such as ITSM Fulfiller tasks, IT Issues, Self-Service, Citrix Sessions, Password Management, Microsoft Office 365 and Active Directory group management, Microsoft Exchange Online and Server meeting management, Virtual Machine management, and Setup topics.
- Role-Specific Functionalities: Fulfiller topics target ITSM professionals with itil roles, enabling actions like incident resolution and change request updates.
- Automation of Common IT Tasks: Automate routine issues such as email setup, VPN connectivity, hardware problems, and conference room booking to reduce manual workload.
- User Self-Service: Empower users to check ticket statuses, open tickets, reset passwords, and manage IT assets directly through conversational flows.
- Integration with Microsoft and Citrix: Manage Office 365 groups, Active Directory groups, Exchange meetings, and Citrix sessions seamlessly within Virtual Agent conversations.
- Virtual Machine Management: Perform VM lifecycle operations like start, stop, provision, and describe via conversational interfaces.
- Setup Topics: Standardize welcome greetings, conversation closings, user feedback, surveys, and error handling to improve user experience.
- Reusable Topic Blocks: Modular conversation components enable common functions such as incident creation and search operations to be reused across topics.
Practical Application for ServiceNow Customers
By utilizing these pre-built ITSM Virtual Agent topics, ServiceNow customers can quickly deploy conversational automation tailored to their IT service workflows. This reduces the need for custom development, accelerates time to value, and enhances user engagement by providing efficient, automated support for frequent IT requests and tasks. Customers should duplicate and rename the templates to align with their environment and can expect improved incident resolution times, self-service adoption, and streamlined IT operations through integrated Virtual Agent conversations.
ITSM Virtual Agent includes several pre-built topic conversations designed to help your users complete common IT-related tasks, such as resetting a password and creating an incident.
Once installed, ITSM Virtual Agent pre-built topics are read only and have (Template) after the name. To use them, duplicate the topic in the ITSM Virtual Agent conversation scope and rename it according to your company's naming conventions. Natural Language Understanding (NLU) models are used to identify and trigger the action that a user wants to perform.
The ITSM Virtual Agent pre-built topic conversations are organized in several topic categories. Use the following table to find the topics that fit your needs.
| I want to | Using this ITSM topic category | Available pre-built topics |
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| Resolve issues as an ITSM professional with the itil role | ITSM Fulfiller |
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| Automate common IT-related issues, such as email setup, VPN connectivity, and conference room problems | ITSM IT Issues |
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| Give users to access IT-related information, such as IT ticket management, verify assigned equipment, and service disruptions | ITSM Self-Service |
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| Automate Citrix connections | ITSM Self-Service (with Citrix integration) |
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| Automate user password management | Password Reset for Virtual Agent application |
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| Manage Microsoft Office 365 groups | ITSM Self-Service (with Microsoft Office 365 integration) |
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| Manage Microsoft Active Directory groups | ITSM Self-Service (with Microsoft Active Directory integration) |
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| Automate meeting invitations in Microsoft Exchange Online | ITSM Self-Service (with Microsoft Exchange Online integration) |
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| Automate meeting invitations in Microsoft Exchange Server | ITSM Self-Service (with Microsoft Exchange Server integration) | Manage Meetings EXS |
| Manage virtual machines | Cloud VMs |
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| Create a standard welcome greeting and a conversation closing, as well as user feedback and surveys | Setup Topics | Dynamic Greeting Topic |