snow_record - Create/Delete/Update records in ServiceNow

• Synopsis
  • Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples
• Return Values
• Status
  • Author

Synopsis

• Creates/Deletes/Updates a single record in ServiceNow

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• python pysnow (pysnow)

Parameters

Examples

- name: Grab a user record
  snow_record:
    username: ansible_test
    password: my_password
    instance: dev99999
    state: present
    number: 62826bf03710200044e0bfc8bcbe5df1
    table: sys_user
    lookup_field: sys_id

- name: Create an incident
  snow_record:
    username: ansible_test
    password: my_password
    instance: dev99999
    state: present
    data:
      short_description: "This is a test incident opened by Ansible"
      severity: 3
      priority: 2
  register: new_incident

- name: Delete the record we just made
  snow_record:
    username: admin
    password: xxxxxxx
    instance: dev99999
    state: absent
    number: "{{new_incident['record']['number']}}"

- name: Delete a non-existant record
  snow_record:
    username: ansible_test
    password: my_password
    instance: dev99999
    state: absent
    number: 9872354
  failed_when: false

- name: Update an incident
  snow_record:
    username: ansible_test
    password: my_password
    instance: dev99999
    state: present
    number: INC0000055
    data:
      work_notes : "Been working all day on this thing."

- name: Attach a file to an incident
  snow_record:
    username: ansible_test
    password: my_password
    instance: dev99999
    state: present
    number: INC0000055
    attachment: README.md
  tags: attach

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Status

This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.

Author

• Tim Rightnour (@garbled1)