ServiceNow ITSM Actions

ServiceNow ITSM Actions powered by Ansible.

About

This action provides a wrapper around Ansible Collection for ServiceNow ITSM to perform operations on a ServiceNow instance. The Ansible Collection for ServiceNow IT Service Management (ITSM) includes a variety of Ansible content to help automate the management of ServiceNow IT Service Management.

Usage

In your workflow, to perform a new operation, include a step like this:

      - name: Let it SNOW
        uses: shundor/servicenow-actions@main
        with: 
          sn_host:  "${{ secrets.SN_HOST }}"
          sn_username: "${{ secrets.SN_USERNAME }}"
          sn_password: "${{ secrets.SN_PASSWORD }}"
          sn_client_id: "${{ secrets.SN_CLIENT_ID }}"
          sn_client_secret: "${{ secrets.SN_CLIENT_SECRET }}"
          sn_module: "${{ secrets.SN_MODULE }}"
          sn_module_params: "${{ secrets.SN_MODULE_PARAMS }}"            

Inputs

The following inputs are required:

• sn_host: The ServiceNow instance hostname
• sn_username: The ServiceNow username
• sn_password: The ServiceNow password
• sn_client_id: The ServiceNow client ID
• sn_client_secret: The ServiceNow client secret
• sn_module: The Ansible module to use
• sn_module_params: The parameters to pass to the Ansible module

Optional:

• debug: When set to true, the action save the playbook to a workflow artifact

Obtaining the sn_client_id and sn_client_secret

You can create sn_client_id and sn_client_secret via the Application Registry under System OAuth in ServiceNow.

SN_MODULE

The module parameter must one of the following:

Name	Description
servicenow.itsm.api	Manage ServiceNow POST, PATCH and DELETE requests
servicenow.itsm.api_info	Manage ServiceNow GET requests
servicenow.itsm.attachment	a module that users can use to download attachment using sys_id
servicenow.itsm.change_request	Manage ServiceNow change requests
servicenow.itsm.change_request_info	List ServiceNow change requests
servicenow.itsm.change_request_task	Manage ServiceNow change request tasks
servicenow.itsm.change_request_task_info	List ServiceNow change request tasks
servicenow.itsm.configuration_item	Manage ServiceNow configuration items
servicenow.itsm.configuration_item_batch	Manage ServiceNow configuration items in batch mode
servicenow.itsm.configuration_item_info	List ServiceNow configuration item
servicenow.itsm.incident	Manage ServiceNow incidents
servicenow.itsm.incident_info	List ServiceNow incidents
servicenow.itsm.problem	Manage ServiceNow problems
servicenow.itsm.problem_info	List ServiceNow problems
servicenow.itsm.problem_task	Manage ServiceNow problem tasks
servicenow.itsm.problem_task_info	List ServiceNow problem tasks

SN_MODULE_PARAMS

Example: Creating an Incident

To create an incident, you can use the servicenow.itsm.incident module. The following example creates an incident with a short description of "Test Incident" and a description of "This is a test incident created by the ServiceNow Actions GitHub Action":

      - name: Create An Incident
        uses: shundor/servicenow-actions@main
        with: 
          sn_host:  "${{ secrets.SN_HOST }}"
          sn_username: "${{ secrets.SN_USERNAME }}"
          sn_password: "${{ secrets.SN_PASSWORD }}"
          sn_client_id: "${{ secrets.SN_CLIENT_ID }}"
          sn_client_secret: "${{ secrets.SN_CLIENT_SECRET }}"
          sn_module: "servicenow.itsm.incident"
          sn_module_params: "${{ secrets.SN_MODULE_PARAMS }}"

The value for the SN_MODULE_PARAMS secret should be:

caller: admin
short_description: Test Incident
description: This is a test incident created by the ServiceNow Actions GitHub Action
impact: low
urgency: low

For all the different parameters that can be passed to the servicenow.itsm.incident module, see the docs on GitHub.

Example: Get Info on a specific Incident

To get info on a specific incident, you can use the servicenow.itsm.incident_info module. The following example gets details about Incident incident_info:

      - name: Retrieve Incident INC0000039
        uses: shundor/servicenow-actions@main
        id: snow
        with: 
          sn_host:  "${{ secrets.SN_HOST }}"
          sn_username: "${{ secrets.SN_USERNAME }}"
          sn_password: "${{ secrets.SN_PASSWORD }}"
          sn_client_id: "${{ secrets.SN_CLIENT_ID }}"
          sn_client_secret: "${{ secrets.SN_CLIENT_SECRET }}"
          sn_module: "servicenow.itsm.incident_info"
          sn_module_params: "${{ secrets.SN_MODULE_PARAMS }}"
      - name: Write to file
        uses: frdrwrt/[email protected]
        with:
          filepath: output.json
          mode: 0777
          content: ${{ steps.snow.outputs.output }}
      - name: Display output
        shell: bash
        run: |
            jq '.plays[].tasks[].hosts.localhost.records[]' output.json          

The value for the SN_MODULE_PARAMS secret should be:

number: INC0000039

For all the different parameters that can be passed to the servicenow.itsm.incident_info_module module, see the docs on GitHub. The output parameter will contain all the information about the incident.

Outputs

This action provides the following outputs:

• output: The captured output as JSON

Credits

• 🙇 Based on action-ansible-playbook by dawidd6
• 🙇 This action relies on Ansible Collection for ServiceNow ITSM