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teppotahkapaa
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8 months ago

Device configuration "key/value" pairs synchronization to ITSM

  With Powerflow most data are pretty easy to sync from SL1 to ITSM/CMDB, in this case ServiceNow. But now we have requirement that we should sync cloud device tags from SL1 to SN. The data from Az...
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  • DouglasR's avatar
    DouglasR
    7 months ago

    One possible way to make this work with the data as is would be to update the DA and stringify the Key/Value pairs using json.dumps() into a single attribute or asset field in SL1.

    Then in the PowerFlow mappings configuration, you could utilize a jinja template to load that string back into an object, using json.loads(). Once you have that object, you can either iterate through every key/value pair, or select a specific key to map to a ServiceNow attribute.

    Something like: (note I have not run this personally, this is just an example)

    {%- set tagObj = json.loads(tagString) -%}
{%- set oneTagValue = tagObj['desiredTagKey'] %}

    Hopefully this suffices using the DA data as it exists today. However, it does seem there is room for improvement in that the DA should set the tags in a way that is more easily and consistently consumable by PF.

    To best address this, please open a support ticket requesting the improvement, and let us know how you feel would be the best way to handle this tag data.

     

    Thanks

     

DouglasR's avatar
DouglasR
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7 months ago

One possible way to make this work with the data as is would be to update the DA and stringify the Key/Value pairs using json.dumps() into a single attribute or asset field in SL1.

Then in the PowerFlow mappings configuration, you could utilize a jinja template to load that string back into an object, using json.loads(). Once you have that object, you can either iterate through every key/value pair, or select a specific key to map to a ServiceNow attribute.

Something like: (note I have not run this personally, this is just an example)

{%- set tagObj = json.loads(tagString) -%}
{%- set oneTagValue = tagObj['desiredTagKey'] %}

Hopefully this suffices using the DA data as it exists today. However, it does seem there is room for improvement in that the DA should set the tags in a way that is more easily and consistently consumable by PF.

To best address this, please open a support ticket requesting the improvement, and let us know how you feel would be the best way to handle this tag data.

 

Thanks

 

  • teppotahkapaa's avatar
    teppotahkapaa
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    7 months ago

    Thanks Douglas,

    well, this solves one issue, but to root cause is still there. And actually there are even more issues found here. In normal ServiceNow way, those tags are to be stored in separate table (cmdb_key_value) [that's the way SN has decided it to work] and in that table there is only CI-sysid, key and value columns. 

    And as this DA is SL built, we can not just edit the code (that is in libraries, and anyway next PP update would overwrite it), so we need to built some other kind of magic here.

    So, to make this SN proof, needs some more work.

    br

    Teppo