Managing the CSDM framework
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- UpdatedJan 30, 2025
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- Yokohama
- Common Service Data Model
The CSDM is the data framework that admins should follow when they set up ServiceNow products and applications. The standards for defining configuration items (CIs) and relationships between CIs in the CMDB ensure that your data resides in the appropriate CMDB tables. The result is maximum value from ServiceNow AI Platform products, apps, and features.
CSDM modules
Navigate to the modules that assist you in implementing and managing the CSDM domains and their components.
- CSDM Data Foundations Dashboard
- The CSDM Data Foundations dashboard displays key CSDM indicators on a single page to help you get the full benefit from your ServiceNow AI Platform products. See CSDM Data Foundations dashboard.
- Getting Started
- Select Getting Started to open the library of CSDM user documentation — the documentation you are viewing now.
- Service Instance Settings
- Use the Service Instance Settings module to specify the attributes and
relationships that are required when a user creates a service instance. See Specifying attributes and relationships for service instances.
See Monitor the health of application services on the Application Services dashboard.
- Service instances Dashboard
- The Service Instances dashboard (formerly Application Services) enables you to monitor and manage service instances to ensure that they are fully configured and are populated in the CMDB. See Monitoring and managing service instances.
- Life Cycle Mapping
- Use the Life Cycle Mapping module to specify how existing legacy status values should be converted to CSDM life-cycle value pairs (life cycle stage and life cycle stage status). You map both asset and CI legacy status values to life-cycle value pairs. See Enabling CSDM life-cycle sync between asset and CI to support product instance.
- Design
- Work in the tables that are referenced in the Design domain of the CSDM. See Design domain in the CSDM framework.
- Manage Technology Management Services
- Work in the tables that are referenced in the Manage Technology Management Services domain of the CSDM. See Manage Technology Management Services domain in the CSDM framework.
- Sell and Consume
- Work in the tables that are referenced in the Sell/Consume domain of the CSDM. See Sell/Consume domain in the CSDM framework.
Synchronize data for 'Managed by' and 'Change' groups
Synchronizing group assignment attributes
Set the group for a CI or an entire class of CIs
Synchronize user groups for a technology management offering