ServiceNow collector
Overview
ServiceNow Incident Management (previously ITSM) helps you to monitor, track, and analyze service incidents to support business operations. This collector enables you to integrate ServiceNow with the Devo Platform making it easy to query and analyze the ServiceNow Incident Management data, view it, and pre-configured Activeboards, or customize them to suit your needs.
Devo’s Service Now Collector interfaces with ServiceNow to help streamline security-related service management and IT operations. The data in ServiceNow tickets can be mirrored to Devo so that you can track the status and information in the task.
Devo collector features
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Allow parallel downloading ( |
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Populated Devo events |
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Flattening preprocessing |
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Data sources
Data Source | Description | API Endpoint | Collector service name | Devo Table | Available from release |
Incident data | Incident is an unplanned interruption to a service or reduction in the quality of service. Failure of a configuration item that has not yet affected service is also an incident – for example, failure of one disk from a mirror set. |
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Event data | Events are an indication in ServiceNow that something notable has occurred. Events can be generated by server-side scripts, workflows, ServiceNow processes, or by user actions such as: Impersonating a user. Logging in. |
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Change data | A change request records the detailed information about the change, such as the reason for the change, the priority, the risk, the type of change, and the change category. |
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User data | The individuals who use the ServiceNow within an organization. The system administrator has the authority to create a new user, browse through the list of existing users, delete a user and impersonate a user |
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Location data | If your organization supports more than one distinct location, you can configure these locations in the platform to help further identify users, assets, and incidents. |
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Application Server | A base table for logical CIs, which indicate the primary function of a physical or virtual server such as a Tomcat server or a WebSphere server. |
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Database Instance | Software and memory used to manipulate data in a database. |
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Infrastructure Service | IT services which support providing computing infrastructure. |
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Configuration Item | Base configuration item table. |
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Server | Base class for all types of servers. |
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Service | IT Service that directly supports a Business Process (ITIL). |
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Virtual Machine HyperVisor | Virtual Machine HyperVisor |
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CI Relationship | Store relationship between your CIs. |
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cmn location | Store locations in common table |
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Any Extended table | Extending an existing ServiceNow table means the new table inherits the parent table's columns as well as its business logic |
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Any Database view | A Database View is essentially a pseudo-table representing a join between several contributing tables. |
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For more information on how the events are parsed, visit our page.
Vendor setup
There are some requirements to enable this collector:
Valid ServiceNow credentials.
Set the time zone of the ServiceNow instance to GMT.
In order to retrieve the data, you need to create an instance to obtain credentials. In the following table are the steps on how to create an instance, get the credentials, and put the time zone of the instance in GMT.
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Go to ServiceNow's development website. |
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Enter your login credentials. |
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Request an instance. |
The instance has to be awake for the collector to work. It goes into hibernation mode after a few hours if it is not used. Instances with no activity for over 10 days will be claimed back in to the pool. |
Copy credentials. |
It is important to save the instance URL, username and password to enter in the Collector configuration. |
Set instance time zone to GMT. |
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(Optional) Explore the instance in the ServiceNow console. | (Optional) If you open the instance, you will be redirected to the ServiceNow console where you can create tables, filters and database views. |
Minimum configuration required for basic pulling
Although this collector supports advanced configuration, the fields required to retrieve data with basic configuration are defined below.
Setting | Details |
| This parameter is the URL of the ServiceNow instance. |
| Username to authenticate to the service. |
| User password to authenticate to the service. |
| This parameter allows you to define a standard Service Now service based on known sources of Tables. |
Accepted authentication methods
Depending on how did you obtain your credentials, you will have to either fill or delete the following properties on the JSON credentials
configuration block.
Authentication Method | Username | Password |
Username/Password | REQUIRED | REQUIRED |
Run the collector
Once the data source is configured, you can either send us the required information if you want us to host and manage the collector for you (Cloud collector), or deploy and host the collector in your own machine using a Docker image (On-premise collector).
Collector services detail
This section is intended to explain how to proceed with specific actions for services.
Custom services tables and CMDB
This section describes the custom services of the ServiceNow collector.
Custom Lookup services database view
This section describes the custom services of the ServiceNow collector.
Collector operations
This section is intended to explain how to proceed with specific operations of this collector.
Change log
Release | Released on | Release type | Details | Recommendations |
| Dec 2, 2024 | IMPROVEMENTS SECURITY | Changed
Security
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| Aug 9, 2024 | IMPROVEMENTSBUG FIXES | Bug fixes
Improvements
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| Feb 2, 2024 | IMPROVEMENTS | Improvements
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| Feb 2, 2024 | FEATUREIMPROVEMENTS | New features
Improvements
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| Sep 13, 2023 | FEATURE IMPROVEMENTS | New Features
Improvements
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| Sep 2, 2022 | FEATURE | New Features:
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| Aug 26, 2022 | FEATURE | New Features:
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