SNOW REST integration prerequisites

SNOW REST integration prerequisites
SNOW REST integration prerequisites

Did you know –

These PowerShell scripts allow organizations to specify which alerts/events that need to go to ITSM tool.

Does not matter to the tool, whether Broadcom (Spectrum/DXOI), SolarWinds, MECM/MEM/MCM, SCOM

Pretty much ANY tool that can leverage PowerShell scripts and/or REST calls can utilize this script.

The following ServiceNow ‘SNOW REST integration prerequisites’ are required before proceeding.

TEST/PROD ServiceNow (SNow) URL(s)

ID

Password

Incident short_description naming convention

ServiceNow SNOW Alert rule (to make events create incidents)

ServiceNow SNOW Incidents require additional variables to match ServiceNow selections

 

SNOW Incident short_description field is the title of the incident

Pre-define this in the SNOW REST Event/incident injection, to meet organizational naming conventions

Description can be additional details about the issue to be investigated, resolved.

SNOW Incident short_description, description fields
SNOW Incident short_description, description fields

 

Examples of short_description titles

# Setup SNOW Event Name standard

Example SNOWAlertName

$SNOWAlertName = “<Org> <Team> SCOM Test Event – $Alert”

Example SNOWAlertName

$SNOWAlertName = “<Team> <ORG> SCOM Event – $AlertName”

Example SNOWAlertName

$SNOWAlertName = “<Team> <ORG> SCOM $AlertName”

Example SNOWAlertName

$SNOWAlertName = “##CUSTOMER## ##TEAM## SCOM Event – $AlertName”

Example SNOWAlertName

$SNOWAlertName = “##TEAM## ##CUSTOMER##: SCOM – $AlertName”

Example SNOWAlertName

$SNOWAlertName = “##TEAM## ##CUSTOMER##: SPECTRUM – $AlertName”

Example SNOWAlertName

$SNOWAlertName = “##TEAM## ##CUSTOMER##: SOLARWINDS – $AlertName”

 

SNOW Incident fields

Direct Incident REST injection requires additional fields, such as caller, business_service, category, subcategory, channel, impact, urgency, priority, assignment_group
SNOW Incident fields
SNOW Incident fields
Additional SNOW incident fields
Additional SNOW incident fields

 

Additional information

REST/RESTAPI https://www.techtarget.com/searchapparchitecture/definition/RESTful-API

SNOW Utah Connector https://docs.servicenow.com/bundle/utah-it-operations-management/page/product/event-management/task/t_EMConfigureSCOMConnector.html

Additional blogs showing scope and options using ServiceNow for ITSM tool

https://kevinjustin.com/blog/2024/03/27/servicenow-event-integration/

https://kevinjustin.com/blog/2024/03/27/servicenow-incident-integration/

https://kevinjustin.com/blog/2024/04/30/servicenow-connector-for-scom/

https://kevinjustin.com/blog/2024/05/24/lots-of-options-to-create-servicenow-incidents-through-powershell-scripts-connectors-and-3rd-party-vendors/

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