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Send incidents to ServiceNow

You can enable bidirectional communication between Moogsoft Cloud Incidents and your ServiceNow incident management system. After you complete the integration, the two systems keep information synchronized so that:

  • A ServiceNow incident can be created automatically from a Moogsoft Cloud incident.

  • The ServiceNow incident contains a link back to the Moogsoft Cloud incident.

  • When the Moogsoft Cloud incident is updated, updates may be passed to the ServiceNow incident.

  • The initial incident creation, as well as subsequent updates, may pass a list of Affected CIs to add to the incident ticket.

  • When the Moogsoft Cloud incident is either resolved or closed, the ServiceNow incident can be automatically resolved.

  • If a Moogsoft Cloud incident is reopened, the corresponding ServiceNow incident can also be reopened.

  • When the ServiceNow incident is assigned, the Moogsoft Cloud incident will also be assigned, provided that a user exists in Moogsoft Cloud with a matching email address.

  • Work notes added to the ServiceNow incident can be passed as comments to the Moogsoft Cloud incident.

  • When a ServiceNow incident is resolved, the resolution notes added will be passed as comments to the corresponding incident in Moogsoft Cloud.

  • When the ServiceNow incident is resolved, the corresponding Moogsoft Cloud incident can be automatically resolved or closed.

  • When the ServiceNow incident is closed or cancelled, the corresponding Moogsoft Cloud incident can also be closed.

  • ServiceNow Change Requests can create and maintain Moogsoft Cloud maintenance windows.

  • ServiceNow Change Requests can be manually linked to impacted Moogsoft Cloud incidents.

See the ServiceNow documentation for details on ServiceNow components.

Before you begin

The ServiceNow integration has been validated with the ServiceNow Tokyo, San Diego, and Rome releases. Before you set up your ServiceNow integration:

  • Note the URL of your ServiceNow incident management instance.

  • Make sure you have a valid Moogsoft Cloud API Key. For instructions on creating an API key, read Create an API key.

  • Make sure you have an email address for a Moogsoft Cloud integration user (optional).

  • Make sure you have the UUID for your Moogsoft Cloud instance (if you want to enable the ability to manually link ServiceNow changes to Moogsoft Cloud incidents).

Install the update set

To configure the integrations user and XML update set for ServiceNow:

  1. Download the XML update set file, which you can find here.

  2. Open your ServiceNow instance. From the top menu, navigate to All > System Update Sets > Retrieved Update Sets.

  3. At the bottom of the page under Related Links, click Import Update Set from XML.

  4. On the Import XML form, click Choose File and select the XML update set file you downloaded earlier.

  5. Click Upload.

  6. Click on the name of the update set ("Moogsoft") to open it.

  7. Click Preview Update Set.

  8. If there are any errors, select them all and click Actions on selected rows... > Accept remote update.

  9. Click Commit Update Set.

  10. To verify that the update is successful, click All in the top menu and type "moogsoft" into the search bar. Confirm that Moogsoft Integration is displayed in the drop-down menu.

  11. Now that the update set is installed, you can choose to do one of the following:

    Important

    Choosing between automatic or manual configuration

    If you are unfamiliar with ServiceNow and want to set up the integration quickly, choose automatic configuration.

    If you are experienced with ServiceNow and want to customize your integration for your team or organization, choose manual configuration.

Next steps

Once you have finished configuring your ServiceNow integration, you can learn more about how to:

In this section: