Software Asset Management Playbooks and Guided Setups
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Summary of Software Asset Management Playbooks and Guided Setups
Software Asset Management Playbooks and Guided Setups provide structured, step-by-step guidance for effective software management tasks. This feature allows you to navigate through workflows efficiently, ensuring that you can complete daily software management activities with ease.
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Key Features
- Playbook Structure: Each playbook is divided into multiple lanes, which include tasks, status indicators, and checkboxes to track progress.
- Activity Log: An activity log on the right side records all data entered for each task, allowing for easy review.
- Guided Walk-through: The guided playbook helps in setting up entitlements, walking you through each stage of the entitlement creation process.
- Product-Specific Setups: Guided Setups are available for configuring Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Windows Server, offering tailored tasks to streamline implementation.
Key Outcomes
By utilizing Software Asset Management Playbooks and Guided Setups, you can expect enhanced productivity in managing software assets, accurate entitlement creation, and efficient setup processes for key products. This structured approach minimizes errors and ensures a comprehensive understanding of your software management tasks.
Playbooks and Guided Setups provide step-by-step guidance for completing tasks in your daily software management activities.
Playbook overview
- A list of tasks that you must perform.
- Status indicators that display the current state of each task.
- Check boxes that indicate where you are in the workflow.
As you mark a task complete in a lane, you move to the next task. You can save a task at any time and return to the playbook later and time. After you complete all the tasks in a lane, you can move to the next lane. As you keep completing tasks and lanes, the status keeps getting reflected in the left-hand panel. An activity log on the right-hand side of the playbook shows all the data that you’ve entered for each task. After you complete all the tasks, you’re asked to review the details you entered in all the lanes. You can choose to edit any field or select Finish to complete the process of creating the entitlement.
- lanes on the left-hand side.
- work area in the center.
- activity log on the right-hand side.
Using playbook to set up entitlements
You can use the guided walk-through playbook for setting up entitlements. The guided walk-through playbook takes you step by step through each stage of the entitlement creation process, from initiation to completion.
To access the Software Asset Management playbook, you need to install it from the ServiceNow Store and then access the playbook from the landing page on the Software Asset Workspace.
Using Guided Setup to implement Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server License Management Guided Setup provides a sequence of tasks that help you configure Microsoft SQL Server on your ServiceNow instance. To open Microsoft SQL Server License Management guided setup, navigate to . For more information, see Software asset overview.
For more information about using the Guided Setup interface, see Using guided setup.Using Guided Setup to implement Microsoft Windows Server
Microsoft Windows Server Guided Setup provides a sequence of tasks that help you to configure Microsoft Windows Server on your ServiceNow instance. To access Microsoft Windows Server Guided Setup, navigate to .
For more information about using the Guided Setup interface, see Using guided setup.