Part 2 – vCloud Automation Center – Service Now Integration via vCO SOAP Plug-in – Version 1.1 – Mark Andreopoulos SET West

Create a build profile in vCAC by navigating to Enterprise Administrator

I called mine ServiceNow. Add the 4 custom properties shown below

Assign your build profile to one of the Blueprints as shown in the screen here

Now we must launch the vCAC Designer and load the workflow stub for WFStubMachineProvisioned

Double click in the box

Double click custom code

Here is an overview of the workflow stub. We are getting the machine name, owner, and properties and assigning them to variables.

We then invoke the vCO workflows that we just created above

After the vCO workflow runs, we will use the SetMachineProperty action to assign snow_id and inc_id to their respective vCAC custom properties

You must drag in each element from the left pane and then connect the arrows as shown.

Please refer to each of the detailed screens for the necessary values. You must update each of the steps properties on the right pane

Browse for your vCO workflow by clicking the elipses and filtering on snow; assuming your workflow in vCO has snow in the name

Select the Insert workflow and click OK

All variables will be of type string with the exception of properties

Properties variable assignment

When completed updating variables and properties, you must click the Send button to update the workflow stub.

Provide a description

Now we will follow similar steps for the WFStubMachineDisposing stub

Double click here

Double click custom code

Here is the workflow for updating and closing the incident. Quite similar to the Insert workflow.

Values for GetMachineName, GetMachineOwnwer, and GetMachineProperties are exactly the same as in the MachineProvisioned stub above

Once again, choose your vCO workflow by clicking the elipses and filtering on snow

After updating all of the properties Send this workflow and provide a description

Request a new machine based on a Blueprint that has the build profile we created earlier associated with it.

Once the machine has been provisioned navigate to Enterprise Administrator and choose Edit

You should now see both sys_id (guid assigned by SNOW) and inc_id assigned as custom properties for the machine.

These will follow the machine throughout it’s lifecycle and enable vCAC and vCO to update the ServiceNow incident state (to Closed) and details when the machine is destroyed.

Once again, any of the parameters from the vCO workflow could be assigned and mapped to custom properties.

As you can see, the new incident has been created with both the machine name and user capture in the description of the case.

Now you should destroy the machine to test the update workflow

After the machine has been destroyed, you will notice the Activity field has been updated, and the State has been changed to Closed

To validate your workflows have run successfully, navigate to the vCO workflows we created earlier.

You should see green check marks for successful tokens.

Also notice the variables have been captured for sys_id and inc_id.