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AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager in ServiceNow

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AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager in ServiceNow - AWS Service Management Connector

To allow the Connector to synchronize Incidents from AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager for a specific Region, you must enable Incident Manager in that account and Region.

For more information, see What is AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager.

Fields mapped from Incident Manager incident to ServiceNow Incident records

This table shows how AWS Incident Manager Incidents map to ServiceNow Incidents.

AWS Incident Manager incident ServiceNow Incident
Title short_description

Summary

description

Incident ARN x_126749_aws_sc_awsincidentarn
AWS Account x_126749_aws_sc_awsaccount
AWS Region x_126749_aws_sc_awsregion
Status x_126749_aws_sc_awsstatus
Start time x_126749_aws_sc_awscreationtime
Resolved time x_126749_aws_sc_awsresolvetime
Updated time x_126749_aws_sc_awslastupdatedtime
Incident Sync time x_126749_aws_sc_awslastsynctime
AWS incident URL x_126749_aws_sc_awsincidenturl
Impact impact

Incident Status is an integer in ServiceNow. We map Incident Manager incident status values to ServiceNow status values.

Incident Manager Incident Status ServiceNow Incident Status

Open

New

Resolved

Resolved

Resolved Cancelled

Priority - In ServiceNow Incident, you can’t set the Priority field directly. The values of the Impact and Urgency fields calculate the Priority field. When synchronizing from AWS, we set the default priorities as below:

Incident Manager Incident ServiceNow Incident
Impact Urgency Priority (Calculated)
Critical High High Critical (1)
High High High Critical (1)
Medium Medium High High (2)
Low Low High Moderate (3)
No Impact Low High Moderate (3)
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