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ServiceNow Reader

ServiceNow provides a cloud platform for digital workflows across IT, employee, and customer operations. Striim’s ServiceNow Reader connects to a ServiceNow instance and reads data from one or more tables, publishing WAEvents that you can process or deliver to supported Striim targets.

Feature summary

Feature

Supported?

Notes

Objects

   Standard Tables

Specify one or more tables; wildcard % supported.

   Custom Tables

Subject to the ServiceNow user’s ACL permissions.

Authentication

   OAuth

Uses ServiceNow OAuth application (Client ID/Secret).

   Manual OAuth

Uses access/refresh tokens for unattended integrations.

Security and Governance

   TLS 1.2

All connections use TLS.

   Connection Profile

Store and reuse credentials and endpoints.

Operations

   Initial Load

Reads existing rows for selected tables.

   Pull-based Incremental Load

Uses timestamp fields (for example, sys_updated_on) when available.

   Automated mode

Runs initial then incremental in a single application.

Building Applications / Programmability

   Flow Designer

Create and configure pipelines visually.

   Striim TQL

Define readers and targets with TQL.

Schema Handling

   Initial Schema Creation

When enabled, propagates table schema to supported targets.

   Output as WAEvents

This reader publishes WAEvents by default.

   Schema Evolution

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Runtime

   Resilience

Configurable connection retries and timeouts.

   Recovery

Supports recovery from failures.

   Metrics & Auditing

Standard Striim monitoring available.