Simplify ServiceNow ITSM with Red Hat

Enable faster, more efficient IT service management through the Red Hat® Ansible® Certified Content Collection for ServiceNow ITSM.

Overview
The Ansible Automation Platform for ServiceNow ITSM architecture.

Optimized IT service delivery can result in improved customer satisfaction and mean time-to-resolution (MTTR), as well as enhanced productivity across your entire IT organization. But manual maintenance of configuration information can be time consuming, inaccurate, or incomplete. 

Integrate Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform with ServiceNow ITSM to help improve IT service experience and performance. Establish your ServiceNow ITSM as the “single source of truth” for IT assets while using Ansible Automation Platform to programmatically open, close, and update service requests, incidents, problems, and change requests.

Using this certified collection helps to extract value from service chains, while using a “closed loop” process to automatically update ServiceNow ITSM workflows without manual intervention. Work across incidents, problems, and change requests to simplify remediations. Create playbooks to automate common service request actions, such as resetting a network router, so that service teams can use the tools they are familiar with to perform the action and resolve incidents quickly—while automatically establishing a digital trail in ServiceNow ITSM. 

The collection includes modules and plug-ins for managing incident tickets, interacting with problem tickets, handling change requests, and managing the configuration management database in ServiceNow ITSM. It also includes an inventory plug-in that allows Ansible Automation Platform to operate against the ServiceNow ITSM configuration management database (CMDB) as a single source of truth.

This collection provides the ability to automate the retrieval of configurations, eliminating manual steps and allowing IT professionals to focus on other priorities.

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How do I get started with this integration?

To get started using Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collection for ServiceNow ITSM: Install the application programming interface (API) for Red Hat Ansible Certified Content Collection found in the ServiceNow store. Download and consult the scoped application installation and configuration guide for additional instructions. Download the Ansible Content Collection for ServiceNow ITSM from Ansible automation hub on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console.

What is an Ansible Playbook?

An Ansible® Playbook is a blueprint of automation tasks, which are IT actions executed with limited manual effort across an inventory of IT solutions. Playbooks tell Ansible what to do to which devices. Instead of manually applying the same action to hundreds or thousands of similar technologies across IT environments, executing a playbook automatically completes the same action for the specified type of inventory—such as a set of routers. Playbooks also serve as frameworks of prewritten code that developers can use ad-hoc or as a starting template.

What is IT service management (ITSM)?

IT service management (ITSM) refers to the activities an organization performs to design, build, operate, and maintain information technology (IT) services offered to internal and external customers. ITSM is built on the idea that IT should be delivered as a service. ITSM coordinates and streamlines processes so that all customers of IT—both those who are technologically inclined and those who are not—can interact with and benefit from IT services. For example, if a company needs to deliver a phone to a new employee on their first day, an ITSM process would ensure that the employee gets the correct phone. However, ITSM covers more than just basic IT support delivered via a service desk or help desk. ITSM teams manage all kinds of workplace assets and their network of relationships—from something as simple as providing a mouse, to provisioning an email account, to deploying more complex technology like servers and software applications. While ITSM is dedicated to improving user experience, it functions more broadly as a range of processes designed to optimize IT operations across an organization—to ensure diverse systems run efficiently and stay aligned with business goals. Due to the scale and complexity of modern organizations, most IT teams rely on automation to perform aspects of many ITSM processes.
Collections

Collections are a distribution format for Ansible content that can include playbooks, roles, modules, and plugins. You can install and access the certified collections through the Red Hat Ansible Automation Hub in the Hybrid Cloud Console.

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