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02-25-2021
02:10 AM
- edited on
02-18-2025
07:25 AM
by
Steph Morillo
If you miss any content, please leave it as a comment and I will add it to this article.
My library Knowledge Sources To Go is very popular, but it was intended mainly as a thematically grouped guide to standard sources and was provided by me as a PDF file. For certain topics, however, there is so much content that I can no longer include it in that document, as it cannot continue to grow forever.
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Video | Knowledge Article at support.servicenow.com | |||
Documentation Page at docs.servicenow.com | Bug Report at support.servicenow.com | |||
Community Article | other Web Page |
What is the MID server?
The Management, Instrumentation, and Discovery Server is a Java application that runs as a Windows service or UNIX daemon on a server in your local network. The MID Server enables communication and the movement of data between a ServiceNow instance and external applications, data sources, and services. It is core to many successful implementations as it is used with several ServiceNow products such as Discovery, Service Mapping, Integration Hub, Orchestration, Cloud Provisioning and Governance, Event Management, and Operational Intelligence and can provides support for integrations with LDAP, Active Directory, and 3rd party integrations using SOAP or REST.
What is a ServiceNow MID Server and how does it work?
Trainings & Courses
Introduction to the MID Server
Are you new to MID Servers and want to know how they can be used with your ServiceNow instance? Attend this course for a high-level overview.
This course explores how to install, configure, and troubleshoot a MID Server on both Windows and Linux operating systems.
Setup
Prerequisites
(De-)Installation
Configuration
Selection
Common Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Approaches
Debugging & Monitoring
Common Issues
Java/JRE Issues
File Exports / Imports
Performance, Resource Utilization & Virus Scanners
Updating/-Upgrading
Common
Manual
Automatic
Authentication / Password
Security / Certificates / Encryption
PowerShell / Integrations / ITOM
PowerShell / Orchestration
Integrations: JDBC/Databases
Integrations: LDAP
Integrations: miscellaneous
Discovery & Service Mapping
Event Management
MID Server Cluster for ITOM Event Management Connector Instances (KB0830864) |
Agent Client Collector
How are the Agent Client Collector record fields populated, and why might the CI field be empty? (KB0960514) | |
Event not generated from SNMPv3 Trap listener from MID Server (KB0852269) |
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This is a great collection of troubleshooting resources! It's nice to have them all collected in one post. I have had so many issues with the auto-upgrading and with the amount of KB's written about it you can tell it's a common issue.
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Thank you for the feedback!
And it is just the beginning. Therefore subscribe the page to stay informed.
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Thanks Mike for useful sharing. appreciated your hard work.
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A tip that might help others with self inflicted wounds: if the MID server cannot initialize AMB, check that the default rest API ACL is not excluding the login used by the server from accessing endpoints.
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Perhaps you could add the article about how to run multiple instances on Linux, which was not possible in New York, maybe Orlando either?
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Hi János
do you have any resource to link?
If not you maybe could writw a small article so I can link it here.
Maik
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Unfortunately it is something that happened to me, no resource, no article. But I will try to write up something short; will ping you back if and when it is done 🙂
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Done 🙂
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Thanks a lot for sharing, really helpful!
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Some links say I don't have the role to view, how do I get the role needed? I have support portal login and am able to create support tickets.
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If the article says..
"This article is available for logged in users. Please Login here"
...then you have to logon to Now Support to be able to view it. Communities and Support have two different authentication methods (Support uses MFA) and I think you get two different security tokens.