The CMDB and CSDM architect's checklist for the Australia release

The CMDB and CSDM Architect’s Checklist for the Australia Release

What changes for CMDB and CSDM on the Australia upgrade whether you act or not, what was removed, what you can switch on, and the…
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What a CMDB composite index is and why it slows the Australia upgrade

What a CMDB Composite Index Is and Why It Slows the Australia Upgrade

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Running a CMDB assessment, the checklist I use

Running a CMDB Assessment, the Checklist I Use

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Four nested rings labelled AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Gen AI on a violet background

ServiceNow AI, an Introduction for Implementation Teams

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Six numbered tiles: Prompt, Response, LLM, SLM, RAG, Training vs Inference

Six Terms You Need Before Any Conversation About Generative AI

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Dashed empty circles on the left becoming filled amber circles on the right, illustrating Model ID being populated by the CSDM Product Model Assignment job

CSDM Product Model Assignment: The Job That Gives Every Business Application a Model

Open a business application in EA Workspace on a freshly configured instance and look for the Product…
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Fourteen toggle switches, six set and eight to know, for ServiceNow Enterprise Architecture system properties

The System Properties That Shape ServiceNow Enterprise Architecture

Why the rationalization chart hides retired applications, why costs show in dollars, why incident…
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The numbers one to nine in a row, the nine highlighted, for the Enterprise Architecture scheduled job run order

The Scheduled Jobs Behind ServiceNow Enterprise Architecture, and the Order to Run Them

About twenty scheduled jobs write everything EA Workspace shows. Nine of them must run in a fixed…
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A post sensor script deriving VM Lifecycle Stage and Status from Install Status

Pattern Pre Post Scripts, Part 2: A Real Post Sensor Script, Debugging and Pitfalls

Part 2 gets practical. A post sensor script from production that derives VM Lifecycle Stage and Status…
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The five steps of a pattern run with Pre Execution, Pre Sensor and Post Sensor script slots highlighted

Pattern Pre Post Scripts, Part 1: Fixing What Patterns Cannot Do

Patterns cannot read the CMDB and cannot decide not to write a CI. Pre Post Processing Scripts fill…
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Solaris server linked to guest LDOM by name instead of object_id

Fixing Missing Solaris Server-to-VM Relationships in ServiceNow Discovery

Solaris discovery creates the server and instance CIs but never links them, because the OOB…
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The MID Server, engine behind Discovery, Orchestration and Integrations

MID Server, the Engine Behind Discovery, Orchestration, and Integrations

Every ServiceNow architect eventually learns this truth: your instance is only as good as your MID…
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The five pillars of ServiceNow AI Control Tower

The 05 Pillars of ServiceNow AI control Tower

In the first part of this series on ServiceNow AI control tower, we talked about why enterprises need…
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When Cloning Breaks Your Service Graph Connectors: Lessons from AWS & Azure Integrations in ServiceNow

If you have ever worked with Service Graph Connectors in ServiceNow especially the ones for AWS or…
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Introduction to ServiceNow AI Control Tower

Let’s be honest, AI is everywhere right now. From the chatbots answering our customers to the models…
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