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The Complete ServiceNow

System Administrator Course


Section 8 - System Administration
Course Outline
1 Course Introduction 6 User Administration

2 ServiceNow Overview 7 Core Applications

3 Lists, Forms, & the UI 8 System Administration

4 Customizations 9 Building A Custom App

5 Tables & Fields 10


Section Outline
1 Basic Configuration 6 System Diagnostics

2 System Properties 7 Events & Notifications

3 Dashboards & Self-Service 8 Workflows

4 Mobile 9 Import Sets

5 Upgrades & HI 10 Reporting


Basic Configuration
• Define common properties
• Configure logo, colors, and banner text
• Configure system defaults
System Properties
• sys_properties table
• Hundreds of system properties
• Categories
• Examples
• List v3 properties
• UI properties
• Email properties
• System properties
• Global text search properties
Basic Configuration
& System Properties
Demo
Dashboards
• Dashboards are the new homepages
• May contain reports, and dashboard widgets
• Any user may create a new dashboard
Self-Service
• Accessible by every user in ServiceNow
• Does not require a role
• Personalized information
Dashboards,
& Self-Service
Demo
Mobile
• ServiceNow mobile app (native app)
• iOS & Android
• ServiceNow mobile web app (browser)
• Leverage phone hardware
Upgrades
• Upgrade history
• stats.do for current version
• Request upgrades through ServiceNow HI

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ServiceNow HI
• Customer administration
• ServiceNow for ServiceNow
• hi.service-now.com
• Manage instances
• Request upgrades
• Request clones
• Create incidents
• Access ServiceNow Knowledge Base
System Diagnostics
• stats.do
• Build information
• Memory allocation
• Semaphore information
• Response times
• Active sessions
Troubleshooting
• System logs
• Debugger
• ServiceNow Docs
• Community
Response Time
• Server
• Process data

• Client
• Render data

• Network
• Transfer data

Client
Server
(browser)
Diagnostics &
Troubleshooting
Demo
Security
• High-Security plugin
• Security properties
• IP address access controls
• Triggered by
• User actions
• Scripts User saves record

• Time/Schedules
• Event queue
• Event registry
Save record event
• Parameters
Events
in ServiceNow
Create record
Event Queue
event

Login
event
• Email, SMS
• Templates
• Triggered by events

Notification
User saves record
Notifications event

in ServiceNow

Notification
sent
Events &
Notifications
Demo
• Visual representation of defined process
• Number of activities
• Approvals, Conditions, Notifications, Timers, Tasks,
Utilities, more…

User submits
Change Request
Workflows
in ServiceNow

Approved?

Yes No
Workflows
Demo
• Import data
• Powerful & flexible
• Data sources
• Database connectors, web services, CSV, XML, Excel,
FTP

• Transform mapping

Import Sets
in ServiceNow

Staging Target
Table Table
Import Process

Load Create Transform


Data Transform Data

Source Target
Table Table
Import Sets
Demo
• Many different types
• Roles
• Create & share reports
• Schedule reports

Reporting
in ServiceNow
Reporting
Demo
Demo
• Grants permissions to parts of the system
• A record in the sys_user_role table
• Assign 1 or more roles to a group
• Contain 0 or more access control rules
• Many out-of-box roles

Administrator group

Roles
Admin role

User
Access Operations
Operation Action

execute Run app or script

create Insert records

read Display records

write Update records

delete Remove records

list_edit Update records from list view

report_on Create reports


Access Controls Flowchart
Deny access to
No object
Does user have
one of the required
roles?
Yes

Yes
Fail
User makes Does ACL for
request for record matched object exist?
Evaluate conditions
No
Pass

Grant access to
object
Upgrades
in ServiceNow

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