Using extensibility actions you can integrate Cloud Assembly with an Enterprise ITSM, like ServiceNow.

The ServiceNow integration flow goes through several Cloud Assembly, Amazon Web Services, and ServiceNow services and APIs.
Enterprise users commonly integrate their Cloud Management Platform with an IT Service Management (ITSM) and Configuration Management Database (CMDB) platform for compliance. Following this example, you can integrate Cloud Assembly with ServiceNow for CMDB and ITSM by using extensibility action scripts.
Note: You can also integrate ServiceNow with Cloud Assembly by using vRealize Orchestrator workflows. For information about integrating ServiceNow by using workflows, see How do I integrate Cloud Assembly for ITSM with ServiceNow using vRealize Orchestrator workflows.

To create this integration, you use four extensibility action scripts. The first three scripts are initiated in sequence during provisioning, at the compute provision post event. The fourth script triggers at the compute removal post event.

For more information on event topics, refer to Event topics provided with Cloud Assembly.

The four extensibility action scripts have different levels of priority. The highest level of priority is given for the Get VM Details and Retire Service Now CMDB CI extensibility action scripts.

Get VM Details

The Get VM details script acquires additional payload details required for CI creation and an identity token that is stored in Amazon Web Services Systems Manager Parameter Store (SSM). Also, this script updates customProperties with additional properties for later use.

Create ServiceNow CMDB CI
The Create ServiceNow CMDB CI script passes the ServiceNow instance URL as an input and stores the instance in SSM to meet security requirements. This script also reads the ServiceNow CMDB unique record identifier response (sys_id). It passes it as an output and writes the custom property serviceNowSysId during creation. This value is used to mark the CI as retired when the instance is destroyed.
Note: Additional permissions might need to be allocated to your vRealize Automation services Amazon Web Services role to allow Lambda to access the SSM Parameter Store.

Create ServiceNow Change

This script finishes the ITSM integration by passing the ServiceNow instance URL as an input and storing the ServiceNow credentials as SSM to meet security requirements.

Create ServiceNow Change

The retire ServiceNow CMDB CI script prompts the ServiceNow to stop and marks the CI as retired based on the custom property serviceNowSysId that was created in the creation script.

Prerequisites

  • Before configuring this integration, filter all event subscriptions with the conditional cloud template property: event.data["customProperties"]["enable_servicenow"] === "true"
    Note: This property exists on cloud templates that require a ServiceNow integration.
  • Download and install Python.

For more information on filtering subscriptions, see .Create an extensibility subscription.

Procedure

  1. Open a command-line prompt from your Virtual Machine.
  2. Run the Get VM details script. 
    from botocore.vendored import requests
import json
import boto3
client = boto3.client('ssm','ap-southeast-2')

def handler(context, inputs):
    baseUri = inputs['url']
    casToken = client.get_parameter(Name="casToken",WithDecryption=True)
    
    url = baseUri + "/iaas/login"
    headers = {"Accept":"application/json","Content-Type":"application/json"}
    payload = {"refreshToken":casToken['Parameter']['Value']}
    
    results = requests.post(url,json=payload,headers=headers)
    
    bearer = "Bearer "
    bearer = bearer + results.json()["token"]
    
    deploymentId = inputs['deploymentId']
    resourceId = inputs['resourceIds'][0]
    
    print("deploymentId: "+ deploymentId)
    print("resourceId:" + resourceId)
    
    machineUri = baseUri + "/iaas/machines/" + resourceId
    headers = {"Accept":"application/json","Content-Type":"application/json", "Authorization":bearer }
    resultMachine = requests.get(machineUri,headers=headers)
    print("machine: " + resultMachine.text)
    
    print( "serviceNowCPUCount: "+ json.loads(resultMachine.text)["customProperties"]["cpuCount"] )
    print( "serviceNowMemoryInMB: "+ json.loads(resultMachine.text)["customProperties"]["memoryInMB"] )
    
    #update customProperties
    outputs = {}
    outputs['customProperties'] = inputs['customProperties']
    outputs['customProperties']['serviceNowCPUCount'] = int(json.loads(resultMachine.text)["customProperties"]["cpuCount"])
    outputs['customProperties']['serviceNowMemoryInMB'] = json.loads(resultMachine.text)["customProperties"]["memoryInMB"]
    return outputs
  3. Run the CMDB configuration item creation action. 
    from botocore.vendored import requests
import json
import boto3
client = boto3.client('ssm','ap-southeast-2')

def handler(context, inputs):

    snowUser = client.get_parameter(Name="serviceNowUserName",WithDecryption=False)
    snowPass = client.get_parameter(Name="serviceNowPassword",WithDecryption=True)
    table_name = "cmdb_ci_vmware_instance"
    url = "https://" + inputs['instanceUrl'] + "/api/now/table/{0}".format(table_name)
    headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'application/json'}
    payload = {
        'name': inputs['customProperties']['serviceNowHostname'],
        'cpus': int(inputs['customProperties']['serviceNowCPUCount']),
        'memory': inputs['customProperties']['serviceNowMemoryInMB'],
        'correlation_id': inputs['deploymentId'],
        'disks_size': int(inputs['customProperties']['provisionGB']),
        'location': "Sydney",
        'vcenter_uuid': inputs['customProperties']['vcUuid'],
        'state': 'On',
        'sys_created_by': inputs['__metadata']['userName'],
        'owned_by': inputs['__metadata']['userName']
        }
    results = requests.post(
        url,
        json=payload,
        headers=headers,
        auth=(snowUser['Parameter']['Value'], snowPass['Parameter']['Value'])
    )
    print(results.text)

    #parse response for the sys_id of CMDB CI reference
    if json.loads(results.text)['result']:
        serviceNowResponse = json.loads(results.text)['result']
        serviceNowSysId = serviceNowResponse['sys_id']
        print(serviceNowSysId)

        #update the serviceNowSysId customProperty
        outputs = {}
        outputs['customProperties'] = inputs['customProperties']
        outputs['customProperties']['serviceNowSysId'] = serviceNowSysId;
        return outputs
  4. Run the Creation action script. 
    from botocore.vendored import requests
import json
import boto3
client = boto3.client('ssm','ap-southeast-2')

def handler(context, inputs):
    snowUser = client.get_parameter(Name="serviceNowUserName",WithDecryption=False)
    snowPass = client.get_parameter(Name="serviceNowPassword",WithDecryption=True)
    table_name = "change_request"
    url = "https://" + inputs['instanceUrl'] + "/api/now/table/{0}".format(table_name)
    headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'application/json'}
    payload = {
        'short_description': 'Provision CAS VM Instance'      
              }
    results = requests.post(
        url,
        json=payload,
        headers=headers,
        auth=(snowUser['Parameter']['Value'], snowPass['Parameter']['Value'])
    )
    print(results.text)

Results

Cloud Assembly is successfully integrated with ITSM ServiceNow.

What to do next

When desired, you can retire your CI by using the CMDB configuration item retire action: 
from botocore.vendored import requests
import json
import boto3
client = boto3.client('ssm','ap-southeast-2')

def handler(context, inputs):
    snowUser = client.get_parameter(Name="serviceNowUserName",WithDecryption=False)
    snowPass = client.get_parameter(Name="serviceNowPassword",WithDecryption=True)
    tableName = "cmdb_ci_vmware_instance"
    sys_id =inputs['customProperties']['serviceNowSysId']
    url = "https://" + inputs['instanceUrl'] + "/api/now/"+tableName+"/{0}".format(sys_id)
    headers = {'Content-type': 'application/json', 'Accept': 'application/json'}
    payload = {
        'state': 'Retired'
        }

    results = requests.put(
        url,
        json=payload,
        headers=headers,
        auth=(inputs['username'], inputs['password'])
    )
    print(results.text)

For more information on how you can use extensibility actions to integrate ServiceNow in Cloud Assembly, see Extending Cloud Assembly with Action Based Extensibility for ServiceNow Integration.