Below are the different modules that fall under the category of Control and Configuration, which allows you to make general customizations to your Perspectium application. All of the modules below can be found at Perspectium > Control and Configuration. Explore the following modules to learn more:
The Propertities module defines the options, settings, and preferences applied to your Perspectium application.
To configure Perspectiujm's properties, go to Perspectium > Control and Configuration > Properties
In the following sections you can find instructions for customizing your General Settings and DataSync Settings, as well as an overview table of Perspectium properties.
From the Properties page, click General Settings (Perspectium > Control and Configuration > Properties > General Settings)
On the General Settings page, you can:
- Change/view your Perspectium Integration Mesh username, password, and/or URL
- Allow the sharing of incidents to Perspectium Support
- Delete error messages older than one day in the Outbound Messages table (via datacleaners)
- Generate debug logging
- Limit bytes/records for Outbound Message jobs
- Limit the maximum number of messages in the Outbound Messages queue
The application installs a role called perspectium that has access to the Perspectium application's tables. This role can be used to limit ServiceNow users to only have access to the Perspectium application and can be given to a user used with theDataSync Agent to access ServiceNow table schemas in order to replicate accurately and dynamically to external databases.
From the Properties page, click DataSync Settings (Perspectium > Control and Configuration > Properties > DataSync Settings)
Your DataSync Settings contain the default encryption and decryption keys that are used for shared and subscribed data, as well as various configuration options for your bulk shares and inbound messages.
On the DataSync Settings page, you can:
- Share display values
- User a percentage of workers to run concurrent scheduled bulk shares
- Save Perspectium properties in the sys_properties table
- Disable inbound messages
- Enable multiple jobs to process messages in the inbound table
- Skip updating the sys_domain_path field when subscribing to records
- Alert before bulk sharing a large number of records
- Generate unique names for business rules associated with dynamic shares
Listed are a few of the Perspectium properties needed for the application:
| Property name | Description | Type | Default value |
|---|---|---|---|
| com.perspectium.outbound.default_disabled | Used to send messages to Perspectium Integration Mesh to monitor status of the Perspectium for ServiceNow application.
| true/false | false |
| com.perspectium.scheduled_job.node | Specify node to run Perspectium Scheduled Jobs (Warning: Changing from default may affect performance)
| dropdown | Default |
com.perspectium.enable_receipts | Generate receipts from messages received to view details about the data you are sharing to/subscribing. | true/false | false |
com.perspectium.outbound.delete_immediately com.perspectium.observer.outbound.delete_immediately | Deletes messages as soon as they are posted to the Integration Mesh, rather than updating them to sent and letting a different process delete the message.
| true/false | false |
com.perspectium.replicator.track_shared_records | Enable shared record tracking for dynamic shares. | true/false | true |
ServiceNow tables maps are used to map and/or transform outbound ServiceNow field data for the record being dynamic shared or bulk shared. If the field names of the record being shared out from ServiceNow need to be modified, or if the value of one or more fields needs to be transformed, you can create an outbound table map to modify the fields for your integration.
Go to Perspectium > Control and Configuration > Table Maps to access.
Table maps are typically used in Perspectium Service Gateway integrations. For more information about how to use a ServiceNow table map to transform data being shared out of your ServiceNow instance, see Service Gateway.
Outbound Table Maps
Outbound table maps are used to map and/or transform the outbound ServiceNow field data for the replicated records. You should use Outbound table maps if the field names of the replicated record from ServiceNow need to be modified, or if the value of one or more fields needs to be transformed. Once the Outbound table map is configured, it can be assigned to a dynamic share or bulk share by selecting it in the Table Map field on corresponding forms. See Add a table map to your ServiceNow dynamic share/bulk share.
Outbound table maps are utilized and packaged per integration. See ServiceBond for all the different Perspectium supported applications that uses Outbound table maps.
Inbound Table Maps
Inbound table maps direct messages to an Import Set Table where a ServiceNow Transform Map will do the processing. These configurations are used to map inbound replication messages to a ServiceNow table based on the Topic and Type specified in the message. For example, a record coming in with the “topic=siam” and the “type=common_incident” will be mapped to the “u_psp_common_incident” Import Set Table. The corresponding Transform Map will then process the message appropriately.
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ServiceNow table maps are typically used in Perspectium Service Gateway integrations to handle the mapping of fields in certain ServiceNow tables as data is shared out of your instance. You can include a table map as part of your ServiceNow dynamic share or bulk share to help with field mappings and data transformation.
NOTE: When using a table map with a dynamic share, the dynamic share will trigger based on trigger conditions (i.e. create, update or filter conditions). So this may result in a dynamic share being triggered when a particular field is updated that is not in the table map. As a result, the table mapped record shared out may not have any updated content since all the fields mapped have not changed. To avoid this scenario, use the Share or ignore on specified field updates option.
NOTE: If a table map is set, records with an attachment or message size greater than 5 MB will not be shared out due to ServiceNow platform limitations with how large one particular record can be.
Instructions
Prerequisites:
- First, you will need to commit a Perspectium update set containing table maps to your ServiceNow instance.
- You will also need to create a ServiceNow dynamic share or bulk share.
Procedure:
- In your sharing ServiceNow instance, go to Perspectium > Perspectium Core > Shares > Dynamic Share or Perspectium > Perspectium Core > Shares > Bulk Share.
- Click View Dynamic Shares or View Bulk Shares.
- From the available shares, click on the one that you want to add a table map for.
- In the Data Enrichment tab, click the search icon next to Table map.
- From the resulting list, select the table map you want to add
- Click Update (top right corner) to save your changes