Analyze potential impact agentic workflow
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Summary of Analyze potential impact agentic workflow
The Analyze potential impact agentic workflow in ServiceNow’s Now Assist evaluates how a change request might affect operational servers and suggested services. It helps you make informed decisions by identifying and prioritizing up to 10 relevant impacted servers and up to 3 impacted suggested services. The workflow automatically saves this impact analysis to the change request work notes for ongoing reference.
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Key Features
- Automated Impact Analysis: The workflow uses the Analyze Potential Impact Agent AI to assess the change request’s effect on servers and services, focusing on currently operational servers only.
- Step-by-step Process: It verifies prerequisites, retrieves the change request number, selects affected servers, matches servers to suggested services, and generates prioritized impact summaries displayed in the Now Assist panel.
- Service Mapping Now Assist Skills: Two AI-powered skills enhance the workflow by identifying candidate services through process analysis and generating detailed impact assessments based on service dependencies and connection topology.
- Generated Reports: The workflow provides concise service names, detailed descriptions, and industry-standard categorizations to clarify service roles and potential impacts.
- Default Activation: This agentic workflow is enabled by default for immediate use.
Practical Considerations
- Currently, the workflow does not support domain-separated instances.
- For best results, interactions should be conducted in English.
What to Expect
When you use this workflow, you receive a clear, prioritized summary of which servers and services a change request may impact. This insight enables risk identification, benefit evaluation, and informed planning for necessary adjustments before executing changes. All findings are saved automatically within the change request for auditability and traceability.
The Analyze potential impact agentic workflow analyzes how a change request might impact servers and suggested services. This analysis helps you make informed decisions about the next steps regarding the change request.
Analyze potential impact agentic workflow overview
AI agent used in the Analyze potential impact agentic workflow
| AI Agent | AI Agent role |
|---|---|
| Analyze Potential Impact Agent | Analyzes the potential impact of a change on relevant servers and services and generate an impact analysis. |
Generating the impact analysis
- Prerequisite verification - The agent first verifies that all prerequisites have been met.
- Change request identification - If you have a change request open, the agent retrieves the change request number from the current active page. Otherwise, it prompts you to provide the change request number.
- Server selection- The agent selects up to 10 affected servers from the affected configuration items (CIs) in the change request.
- Match identification - The agent identifies matches between servers and suggested services.
- Impact analysis - Eventually, the agent prioritizes and displays up to 10 impacted relevant servers, giving priority to servers that are part of suggested services, and up to 3 impacted suggested services. Additionally, the agent provides you with a summary about each suggested service and how it might be impacted by related servers. This information is displayed in the Now Assist panel.
- Saving the impact analysis - The analysis generated by the Analyze potential impact agentic workflow is saved to the change request work notes.
To learn more about using the workflow, see Use the Analyze potential impact agentic workflow to assess a change request.
Analyze potential impact agentic workflow sample report
Domain separation
Currently, the Analyze potential impact agentic workflow doesn’t support instances with domain separation. For optimal results, conduct all conversations in English.
Service Mapping Now Assist Skills
Service Mapping Now Assist skills are intelligent capabilities that enhance the Analyze potential impact agentic workflow. These skills leverage generative AI to identify, classify, and assess the impact of changes to your IT infrastructure.
- Service Mapping Candidate
- Service Mapping Candidates Impact
Service Mapping Candidate skill
This skill automatically identifies and names processes and application service candidates by analyzing process characteristics, commands, and parameters. It provides detailed descriptions and categorization to help you understand which services are running in your environment.
The skill uses a two-stage process:
- In the process classification stage, the agent uses the skill to analyze individual processes within an application service candidate. The agent uses the skill to extract:
- Publisher: The company or organization that released the product. For example: "Project Calico".
- Product: The specific product name. For example: "Calico".
- Description: Detailed explanation of what the process does. For example: "BIRD (BIRD Internet Routing Daemon) process running as part of Calico networking solution for Kubernetes and container orchestration. This process handles BGP routing functionality with remote control socket enabled, running as a daemon with specific Calico configuration for pod-to-pod networking and network policy enforcement."
- Service Hints: Keywords that help identify the service type. For example: "bird,calico,BGP,routing,daemon,networking,kubernetes,container,policy,socket".
- In the service information generation stage, the agent combines process details with load balancer information to generate:
- Service Name: A concise, accurate name for the service candidate. For example: "Calico BGP Routing Service".
- Service Description: A comprehensive description of the service's purpose. For example: "BIRD Internet Routing Daemon process running as part of Project Calico's networking solution for Kubernetes container orchestration. This service handles BGP routing functionality for pod-to-pod networking and network policy enforcement, operating as a daemon with remote control socket capabilities. The component is connected through Calico's container networking infrastructure to provide routing services in Kubernetes environments".
- G2 Category: Industry-standard categorization from G2.com. For example: "Container Networking".
Service Mapping Candidates Impact skill
This skill generates comprehensive impact assessments when changes are made to your infrastructure. It analyzes service connections and dependencies to predict how a change to a single component might affect other services and servers, and provides a summary of the impact analysis.
- Connection Topology: How servers within a service candidate are connected.
- Affected Servers: Which servers are directly impacted by a change.
- Service candidate: "bird [ASC000000015]".
- Impact: "Network routing disruption affecting pod-to-pod communication across Kubernetes cluster nodes due to Calico Bird BGP routing daemon failure on p-kubenode1-2, potentially causing connectivity issues for workloads on connected nodes p-kubenode1-3, p-kubenode1-4, and p-kubenode1-5".