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JonHunt
Level 5
8 years ago

Veritas NetBackup Self Service app for ServiceNow

A new ServiceNow (scope) app that communicates with NetBackup Self Service has been developed and is available to download now from the attachment section below (ServiceNow App for NSS.zip)

A ‘backup & restore’ service catalogue will be created in ServiceNow with the following functionality

  • Protect a machine (add it to an NBU policy)                     
  • Unprotect a machine (remove it from an NBU policy)
  • BackupNow
  • Restore file
  • Restore VM

Machine Health information will be available in ServiceNow including alerting capability when a machine has not been backed up within a set time etc

The App will utilise's the ServiceNow CMDB for machine registration

This support's NSS 8.1.1 and above  and ServiceNow version Kingston and above. If you require support please contact me directly and we are happy to demo/workshop/assist install as required.

13 Replies

  • JonHunt's avatar
    JonHunt
    Level 5
    7 years ago

    This post has been updated to reflect that the ServiceNow app for NSS is now availble! (bump)

    • Partheepan1's avatar
      Partheepan1
      Level 2
      7 years ago

      Can i know the app name is service now app store, can you also let me know if we can integrate it through mulesoft as a middleware layer between Selfservice portal and service now

      • JonHunt's avatar
        JonHunt
        Level 5
        7 years ago
        Hi

        The App is not on the ServiceNow store yet, you need to download it from the link in the post above.

        The App calls the NSS API only, If you wanted to build out your services through another application or middleware then you could just go direct to the NSS API, it’s fully documented.
  • RKH1's avatar
    RKH1
    Level 2
    7 years ago

    Hi Jon,

    Can you please share if there is any Technical documentation available for this integration.

    Request you to also please clarify if this xml provides all the scripts and just needs to be installed and we are good to use it or does it require additional customisations as well.

    Thanks for your valuable feedback and inputs.

    • JonHunt's avatar
      JonHunt
      Level 5
      7 years ago

      Hi 

      The App has everything you need to get up and running, no additional scripts need to be written. You just need to configure (not customise) the App to your environment and you will need a working NSS to hook it up to.

      This App has been designed to get you up and running very quickly, without the need to engage  with an integration/web services resources to hook up ServiceNow to the NSS API. 

      The link below in the attachments section (ServiceNow App for NSS - Installation files.zip) contains 3 files which cover:

      • Overview/Introduction (0. Getting started with the NSS ServiceNow app)
      • Installation (1. NSS ServiceNow App Installation)
      • Configuration (2. NSS ServiceNow App Configuration)

      If you need any help, or would like a demo session to run through the features in more details, just drop me a line and I will orgainise a Webex.

      • RKH1's avatar
        RKH1
        Level 2
        7 years ago

        Hi JonHunt,

        Thanks for the feedback for my earlier queries. However, we are facing bit challenge to get connected to the NetBackup endpoint and the response we always recieve is "Resource not found" and 404 error.Most of the required changes have been done opening ports, configuration and so on at NetBackup side. We are not sure what is missing. Can you please guide us how to get the endpoint of NetBackup tool and what additional setup is required so ServiceNow can communicate with NetBackup via REST API. We have also performmed some tests using Postman and still facing the same error.

        Your feedback would be really helpful to resolve our issues. Thank you in advance.