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ServiceNow Hardware Model Normalization enables users to normalize the details, such as manufacturer, product, model, and device type, of your hardware and consumable models. Normalization aligns assets under a common display name based on the product's unique model number. ServiceNow uses the United Nations Standard Products and Services Code (UNSPSC) as the global standard for product recognition during hardware model normalization. UNSPSC is a hierarchical classification of products and services that provides a common language for exchange of information across markets and countries.Reference:Automation Simplifies Hardware Asset Management,Work with hardware normalization,Hardware Model Normalization

According to the ServiceNow Hardware Asset Management documentation, an asset record should track the following information:

Financial information: This includes the cost, depreciation, and residual value of the asset. This information helps to calculate the total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) of the asset.

Contractual information: This includes the warranty, support, lease, and maintenance contracts associated with the asset. This information helps to manage the lifecycle of the asset and ensure compliance with the terms and conditions of the contracts.

Other information that can be tracked in an asset record are:

Physical resources: This includes the location, status, and condition of the asset. This information helps to monitor the inventory and availability of the asset.

Operational details: This includes the configuration, performance, and usage of the asset. This information helps to optimize the functionality and efficiency of the asset.

Logical relationships: This includes the dependencies, associations, and impacts of the asset. This information helps to understand the connections and interactions of the asset with other assets, services, and processes.

Normalization mappings are a feature of the Hardware Asset Management (HAM) application that allow you to standardize the manufacturer name, model name, and model number of hardware assets in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB)1.

Normalization mappings are created by matching the values from the discovery source to the values in the Product Catalog2.

Normalization mappings help you to fully normalize hardware models by ensuring that the asset data is consistent, accurate, and complete3.Reference:

Hardware Normalization

Create normalization mappings

What is Hardware Asset Management?

Normalization is the process of aligning hardware asset data with the ServiceNow Content Library, which provides standardized values for manufacturer, product name, and model number. During normalization, the system compares the hardware model data with the content library and assigns a status to indicate the level of match. The status of Match Not Found means that the system could not find any matching record in the content library for the hardware model. The most common cause for this status is missing data, such as an empty manufacturer field or a generic product name. To resolve this issue, the user can manually edit the hardware model record and provide the missing data, or use the lookup feature to search for a matching record in the content library. Alternatively, the user can create a new content library record for the hardware model and link it to the asset record.Reference:

Hardware model normalization

Normalize hardware models

Create a content library record

To activate HAM, navigate toSystem Definition > Pluginsand search forHardware Asset Management.ClickActivate/Upgradeand follow the instructions1.

To run the scheduled job ''Asset - Create FSM asset tasks'', navigate toSystem Definition > Scheduled Jobsand search for the job name.ClickExecute Nowto run the job immediately or set a schedule for it to run periodically2.

The scheduled job will create asset tasks for existing incidents, changes, and work orders that have assets associated with them.The asset tasks will be linked to the parent records and will have the same state and assignment group as the parent records2.

The asset tasks will allow the asset managers to track and manage the assets involved in the service delivery processes3.Reference:

1:Hardware Asset Management - ServiceNow

2: Asset - Create FSM asset tasks scheduled job

3: Hardware Asset Management and Field Service Management integration

According to the ServiceNow Hardware Asset Management documentation1, when a hardware asset is retired, the system property glide.ham.retire_reclaim_sw() determines whether the software allocations on that asset are automatically reclaimed or not. If the property is set to true, the software allocations are returned to the inventory.If the property is set to false, the software allocations remain with the hardware asset and need to be reclaimed manually.Reference:1: Hardware Asset Management - ServiceNow2