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For a successful deployment of the IT Service Management app, the following prerequisites must be reviewed and provided as needed.
 
For a successful deployment of the IT Service Management app, the following prerequisites must be reviewed and provided as needed.
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==== Explore Analytics ====
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Before installing the app you should have an Explore Analytics Evaluation or Enterprise subscription, and [[Configuring a ServiceNow Data Source | Explore Analytics should already be setup for your instance]].
  
 
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==== Permissions ====
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In most cases, you will not need to add any new ACLs. However, note that out-of-the-box, ServiceNow has no ACL on the "task" table which is required for the IT Service Management app. You may need to add read access to the task table to some role and grant that role to the user that's used by Explore Analytics. The same may be true for the "cmdb_ci_outage" table.
 
In most cases, you will not need to add any new ACLs. However, note that out-of-the-box, ServiceNow has no ACL on the "task" table which is required for the IT Service Management app. You may need to add read access to the task table to some role and grant that role to the user that's used by Explore Analytics. The same may be true for the "cmdb_ci_outage" table.
  
=== Installation ===
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The Content Management plugin is required for publishing content blocks for use in dashboards. It's most likely that you already have this plug-in enabled. However if you implemented ServiceNow before this plug-in became standard it's possible that it's not activated.
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=== Installing the Update Sets ===
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=== Granting Access to Users ===
 
=== Granting Access to Users ===

Revision as of 22:27, 23 July 2015

Introduction

The IT Service Management app is designed for use with your ServiceNow instance. Although it mostly relies on out-of-the-box tables and fields and is ready to go, you may find the need to make changes to some of the filter conditions or fields based on the way that you have customized your instance. You might remove some views and add new ones by editing the application using the same steps explained in Creating Analytical Applications.

Installation

In this section, we'll go over the prerequisites and steps for setting up the IT Service Management app.

Prerequisites

For a successful deployment of the IT Service Management app, the following prerequisites must be reviewed and provided as needed.

Explore Analytics

Before installing the app you should have an Explore Analytics Evaluation or Enterprise subscription, and Explore Analytics should already be setup for your instance.

Permissions

The views of the app access certain ServiceNow tables, and access to these tables is controlled using roles and access control lists.

Required Roles

You should grant the following roles to the user (service account) that is used by the Explore Analytics data source to connect to ServiceNow.

itil, itil_admin, survey, survey_reader, financial_mgmt_admin, financial_mgmt_user, catalog_admin, knowledge, knowledge_admin, workflow_creator, content_admin, soap_script

If you grant new roles, you will need to refresh the Explore Analytics data source.

ACLs

In most cases, you will not need to add any new ACLs. However, note that out-of-the-box, ServiceNow has no ACL on the "task" table which is required for the IT Service Management app. You may need to add read access to the task table to some role and grant that role to the user that's used by Explore Analytics. The same may be true for the "cmdb_ci_outage" table.

Required Plug-in

The Content Management plugin is required for publishing content blocks for use in dashboards. It's most likely that you already have this plug-in enabled. However if you implemented ServiceNow before this plug-in became standard it's possible that it's not activated.

Installing the Update Sets

Granting Access to Users

The "explore_analytics_itsm_user" role.