This is an overview of domain separation and Operational Intelligence. Domain
separation enables you to separate data, processes, and administrative tasks into logical
groupings called domains. You can then control several aspects of this separation, including
which users can see and access data.
Overview
Support: Level
1Domain separation is
supported in this application. Not all ServiceNow applications support domain
separation; some include limitations on the data and administrative settings that can be
domain separated. To learn more, see Application support for domain
separation.
How domain separation works in Operational Intelligence
When domains are separated in Operational Intelligence, users can view
and manage alerts and events only in their own (tenant) domain. After the binding process
has finished, the domain of the configuration item (CI) is used so that users within that
domain can explore metric data. A domain column is present for Operational Intelligence tables that are
provided in the base system. The domain column shows the name of the domain to which the CI
belongs.
Note: If the domain column does not appear in the list, click

(Personalize List) and add the required column. In addition, you can add a column
that displays the domain path.
The following
Operational Intelligence
features have limited domain separation support.
Feature |
Support |
Metric types |
Supported at global level.
The instance owner can control the metric types for all domains.
|
Metric type registration |
Supported at global level.
The instance owner can control the metric type registration for all
domains.
|
Metric class |
Supported at global level.
The instance owner can control the metric classes that are used for all
domains.
|
Configuration settings rules |
Supported at global level.
The instance owner can control the configuration settings rules for all
domains
|
Configure domain separation
You can configure Operational Intelligence for domain
separation to create logically defined domains that limit unauthorized access to data.
Before you begin
Role required: evt_mgmt_admin and evt_mgmt_integration
Procedure
- Activate the Domain Support – Domain Extension Installer plugin.
- Configure the MID Server for Operational Intelligence as a user that belongs to the
desired domain with the role ‘mid_server’ assigned to it.
- Configure a MID Server distributed cluster in the domain you desire and add
Operational Intelligence MID Servers that belong to the same domain. For more
information about setting up MID Servers for Operational Intelligence, see MID Server and MID Server distributed cluster for Operational Intelligence.
Note: The Event Management’s binding events are configured using the domain of the logged-in
MID Server user. Once the process has finished, the record’s domain is updated to use the
domain from the CI so that any user within that domain can see the metric data.