Home page in the IT Remediation Workspace

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  • Updated January 30, 2025
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    Summary of Home page in the IT Remediation Workspace

    The Home page in the IT Remediation Workspace provides ServiceNow users with a centralized view of remediation tasks related to hosts, applications, containers, and test results. It consolidates tasks assigned both to you and your assignment groups, enabling efficient management and resolution of vulnerabilities and configuration issues.

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    Key Features

    • Assigned Remediation Tasks Card: Displays the number of active remediation tasks assigned to you. Clicking the tile reveals detailed task lists.
    • Preferred Solutions on Vulnerable Items (VIs) Card: Shows the count of preferred solutions available for remediating host vulnerable items. This feature requires the Vulnerability Solution Management application and presents solution data from third-party vendors.
    • Impacted Configuration Items (CIs) Card: Indicates the number of configuration items with vulnerabilities assigned to you or your groups, helping track impacted assets.
    • Preferred Patches on VIs Card: Displays the number of preferred patches available for host vulnerable items remediation.
    • Remediation Tasks List: Allows filtering tasks assigned to you or your groups, viewing detailed remediation task information, and starting investigations. Tasks can be self-assigned to enable UI actions and task resolution workflow.

    Key Outcomes

    Using the Home page, ServiceNow customers can efficiently monitor and manage remediation activities across different vulnerability types and configuration test results. The ability to view preferred solutions and patches streamlines remediation planning, while task assignment and investigation features support effective collaboration and faster resolution of vulnerabilities.

    The Home page in the IT Remediation Workspace provides a consolidated list of host, application, container and test result remediation tasks that are assigned to you and your assignment groups.

    • sn_vul.remediation_owner for host vulnerable items (VITs)
    • sn_vul.app_security_champion for application vulnerable items (AVITs)
    • sn_vul_container.remediation_owner for container vulnerable items (CVITs)
    • sn_vulc.remediation_owner for configuration test results (CTRs)
    The Home page consists of the following cards and list of remediation tasks assigned to you and your assignment groups, records assigned to you have solutions.
    Assigned remediation tasks card
    Number of active remediation tasks assigned to you. Select the tile to view the list of remediation tasks.
    Preferred solutions on VIs card
    Number of preferred solutions available to remediate the host vulnerable items. The Solutions list is displayed if the Vulnerability Solution Management application is installed. This card shows you solution data, potential and preferred solutions, from third-party vendors about your vulnerable items.
    Impacted CIs card
    The number of configuration items that have VIs that are assigned to you or your groups. For more information, see View configuration items with vulnerabilities in the IT Remediation Workspace.
    Preferred patches on VIs card
    Number of preferred patches available that can be used to remediate the host vulnerable items.
    Remediation tasks list
    The list of remediation tasks assigned to you and your assignment groups. You can filter the records by selecting the Assigned to me and Assigned to my groups options.
    You can click a remediation task to view the details and start an investigation. In the Lists view, you can view the Remediation Tasks, Vulnerable Items, Configurations Test Results and so on. You can open a remediation task and click Assign to me to assign the task to yourself and start investigation.
    Note:
    If you do not assign the task to yourself in the remediation task, you cannot view any UI actions at the record level.
    Click the More Actions ellipses and click Start Investigation to resolve a remediation task.

    For more information about what you can do on the home page, see Use remediation task records in the IT Remediation Workspace.