Sample Integration Population Query

The following image displays a sample query “SNOW Biz Containment Biz 1.0” to be populated from ServiceNow:

Search for	Example	Results
A single word	`cat`	Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats".
A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase.	`"cat food"` (quotation marks)	Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase.

Search for	Operator	Example
Two or more words in the same topic	`AND` `and` `+` (plus symbol) `&` (ampersand)	`cat AND dog` `"cat food"+milk` `"cat food"&"dog food"`
Either word in a topic	`OR` `or` `\|` (pipe)	`cat OR dog` `cat \| dog`
Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase	`NOT` `not` `!` (exclamation point)	`NOT cat` `! dog`
Topics that contain one string and do not contain another	`^` (caret)	`cat ^ mouse`
A combination of search types	`( )` parentheses	`cat + (dog \| mouse)` `cat \| dog + (! mouse)`

Note that relationships are marked as Root, so in this case every Root element contains a pair of CIs, parent and child.

The following mapping file is created ServiceNowGenericAdapter/mappings/population/SNOW Biz Containment Biz 1.0.xml, and this is how it looks like in XML format:

<target_entities>
    <source_instance query-name="SNOW Biz Containment Biz 1.0" root-element-name="cmdb_rel_ci">
        <target_entity is-valid="cmdb_rel_ci['parent_table'] == 'cmdb_ci_service'" name="BusinessService">
            <target_mapping datatype="STRING" name="global_id" value="cmdb_rel_ci['parent']"/>
        </target_entity>
        <target_entity is-valid="cmdb_rel_ci['parent_table'] == 'cmdb_ci_appl'" name="BusinessApplication">
            <target_mapping datatype="STRING" name="global_id" value="cmdb_rel_ci['parent']"/>
        </target_entity>
        <target_entity is-valid="cmdb_rel_ci['child_table'] == 'cmdb_ci_service'" name="BusinessService_1">
            <target_mapping datatype="STRING" name="global_id" value="cmdb_rel_ci['child']"/>
        </target_entity>
        <target_entity is-valid="cmdb_rel_ci['child_table'] == 'cmdb_ci_appl'" name="BusinessApplication_1">
            <target_mapping datatype="STRING" name="global_id" value="cmdb_rel_ci['child']"/>
        </target_entity>
    </source_instance>
...

Note how the structure of the mapping file follows the hierarchy in the TQL query, relationship as a Root, CIs on both ends.

You can limit the processing the result from the ServiceNow table cmdb_ci_rel by defining is-valid condition. In this example is-valid="cmdb_rel_ci['parent_table'] == 'cmdb_ci_service'", it checks if the value is coming from the cmdb_ci_service table.