Practice Head ServiceNow
July 9, 2025
Service Mapping Enhancements:
- Improved Dependency Mapping: Yokohama enhances the quality and range of application dependency mapping, reflecting an improved understanding of service relationships.
- Dynamic Service Mapping: The latest release introduces dynamic service mapping capabilities, which allow real-time updating of service maps with changes in IT environments.
- AI-driven automation: Yokohama uses AI to automatically identify application-to-infrastructure relationship, reducing human effort required for service mapping.
- Improved accuracy: By leveraging AI algorithms, the Yokohama edition can generate service maps that are more accurate, depicting complex interdependencies between different IT systems.
- Faster mapping process: AI components in Yokohama have the ability to significantly speed up the process of service mapping, enabling faster detection of important service elements.
- CMDB Integration: Yokohama focuses on increasing the integration of ITOM Visibility with the CMDB, which is essential for Service Mapping. Better CMDB data leads to more accurate and reliable service maps.
ITOM Enhancements:
- Service Observability: Yokohama introduces the Service Observability application, which enhances incident management in complex environments by connecting operators with subject matter experts (SMEs) using real-time signals from monitoring tools. This centralizes critical signals to improve agility and reliability.
- Synthetic Monitoring: The launch includes Synthetic Monitoring to simulate real-world performance, detecting issues before they affect users. It provides real-time notification for performance outages or degradations and visualized synthetic test results to facilitate better collaboration and decision-making.
- Cloud Configuration Management: Yokohama enhances cloud configuration visibility and automated remediation options, closing configuration loops, diminishing security threats, and preventing data breaches.
These enhancements aim to provide organizations with better tools for managing and optimizing their IT operations, leading to improved service reliability and performance. The Main update from Xanadu to Yokohama Version for Service Mapping is when we open the Service Mapping home page from the left Navigation bar there, we select ML Powered Candidates option, in that ML Powered Candidate it shows only ML Powered Candidates list in Xanadu Version which is as shown below figure.
Whereas coming Yokohama Version when we open the ML Powered Candidate in the Service Mapping home page it shows Service Fingerprints and Application Service Suggestions as show in the below figure.
Important information for Upgrading ITOM Visibility to Yokohama
3DES support is planned for permanent removal from the MID Server for MID Servers with SSH-based Discovery or SSH-based integrations.
Name Suggestions for Application Service Candidates
Experience more accurate name suggestions for application service candidates based on Service Fingerprints in Service Mapping Plus store version 1.15.0.
Limits in Service Mapping
Limits in Service Mapping prevent the disabling or deletion of jobs scheduled for the Checkpoint Reaper or the Service Model’s Blob Reaper.
Name Update in Service Mapping
- Application Services in the navigation menu has been renamed Service Instances.
- The label for the [cmdb_ci_service_auto] table has been changed from Application Service to Service Instance.
Discovery Status Monitoring
Discovery schedules that have no status updates for over a defined number of minutes are analyzed automatically by the Discovery Status Monitor job. By default, this job applies to Discovery schedules that discover
Use Service Graph Connectors for Extended Discovery
Service Graph Connectors are a collection of predefined integrations that ingest data into the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) from third-party sources.
- Discover device details from Chromebook and ingest them into the CMDB by using Service Graph Connector for Google Console store version 1.8.
- Discover data from public cloud instances and resources in AWS, Azure, and GCP environments and ingest them into the CMDB by using Service Graph Connector for Wiz.
Key Features of ITOM and Service Mapping in Yokohama
- Advanced Discovery: ServiceNow Yokohama release adds improvements to Discovery features, an enhanced identification of cloud infrastructure, network elements, and application dependencies.
- Cloud Service Mapping: Improved cloud-based services mapping, enabling better organization of hybrid IT environments.
- New Service Mapping Features: Enhanced business services mapping features and identifying how these engage with various IT assets.
- CMDB Improvements: Improvements to integration with the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) to ensure better tracking and IT asset management.
- Event Management Enhancements: Improved event correlation, allowing the IT personnel to respond more rapidly to service outages.
Benefits and Key Takeaways
This release delivers significant value to customers and end users by providing increased visibility, faster resolution of problems, and improved control of complex IT environments. The enhanced discovery and mapping capabilities reduce the risk of configuration errors, simplify IT operations, and guarantee continuity of services. End users benefit from more responsive and stable services, and IT staff make better-informed decisions thanks to more accurate data and insights.
Conclusion
The Yokohama release is an important milestone in ITOM and Service Mapping functionality. Emphasizing accuracy, efficiency, and integration, it allows organizations to enhance management of their IT infrastructure and deliver quality services. These features will ultimately drive higher operational maturity, resilience, and end-user satisfaction.
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