About the ServiceNow Connector

ServiceNow’s Service Management application replaces email and spreadsheets with collaborative workspaces and automated business services.

The BA Insight ServiceNow enables you to index ServiceNow:

  • Knowledge base articles
  • Incidents
  • Service catalog items
  • Request items
  • Announcements

Features

  • Searchable content types
    • Knowledge Bases
    • Service Catalogs
    • Incidents
    • Request items
    • Announcements
  • Content update
    • Full and Incremental crawls supported.
  • Attachment retrieval
    • Knowledge articles
    • Announcements
  • Item-level security

    Security Consideration

    Depending on the security applied to your items in ServiceNow, you may be required to use one of the following to fully honor security:

Security

See Security in ServiceNow.

Knowledge Block Support

  • Knowledge blocks are not indexed as stand-alone articles
  • Articles containing knowledge blocks have HASKBBLOCKS metadata set to "true"
  • For articles containing knowledge blocks, META_DESCRIPTION is composed of knowledge blocks + article content.
    • The connector respects only article security

Limitations

The ServiceNow connector currently does not support:

  • Security features relying on script to grant/deny READ access to users
  • ServiceNow Administrators are currently not included in the logic identifying security on items crawls.

Audit

  • The sys_audit_delete table is used for retrieving deletes.