Test ResolveIncident

Resolve the Incident

Navigate to < Your Incident > created in the earlier test.

Update the Incident record as follows:

Your Incident record should look like this:

4) Right-click & Save.

You should see an Info Message, confirming the ResolveIncident Message is being sent to your Integration:

The Activities stream is updated with the details:

View the Bond

Click through to the Bond record from the related list on the Incident.

Your Bond record should have been updated as follows:

5) Transaction:

• Message: 'Resolveincident'

• Direction: 'Outbound'

• Transaction state: 'Complete' (The data has been successfully transported)

• Process state: 'Accepted' (The transaction was accepted as within the scope of the business logic that's in place)

View the Transaction

Click through to the Transaction record from the related list on the Bond.

Your Transaction record should look like this:

6) Transaction details:

• Table: 'Incident [incident]'

• Document: < Your Incident >

• Integration: < Your Integration >

• Connection: < Your Connection >

• Bond: < Your Bond >

• Message: 'ResolveIncident'

• Direction: 'Outbound'

• Transaction state: 'Complete' (The data has been successfully transported)

• Process state: 'Accepted' (The transaction was accepted as within the scope of the business logic that's in place)

7) Errors:

• Error: (If there was a transactional error the Transaction state would show as 'Error' and the details would be captured here).

• Process error: (If there was a process error the Process state would show as 'Rejected' and the details would be captured here)

8) Stages:

• Direction: 'Outbound' & 'Inbound'

• Message: 'ResolveIncident' & 'Receipt'

• Internal reference: < ServiceNow ticket reference > (Same as 'Document')

• External reference: < External system's ticket reference >

View the Stage

Click through to the Outbound Stage record from the related list on the Transaction. (If you wish, you could also do the same for the Inbound Stage record.)

Check the values in the fields match what you expect.

Your Stage record should look like this:

9) Stage details:

• Direction: 'Outbound'

• External reference: < External system's ticket reference >

• Internal reference: < ServiceNow ticket reference >

• Snapshot: < Snapshot record reference >

• Message: 'ResolveIncident'

• Transaction: < Your Transaction >

• Integration: < Your Integration >

10) Mapped Staged Data fields:

• close_code: < Your Resolution code >

• close_notes: < Your Resolution notes >

• state: '6'

View the HTTP Request

Click through to the Outbound HTTP Request record from the related list on the Transaction. (If you wish, you could also do the same for the Inbound HTTP Request record.)

Your HTTP Request record should look like this:

11) HTTP Request details:

• Integration: < Your Integration >

• Connection: < Your Connection >

• Transaction: < Your Transaction >

• Message: 'ResolveIncident'

• Direction: 'Outbound'

• Request state: 'OK' (There are no errors with the HTTP Request.)

• Attempt number: < Number of HTTP Request attempts > (Failed requests are retried up to the maximum attempts number as configured on the Integration.)

• Endpoint URL: < The external system’s access URL >

• Action Method: 'POST'

• Request headers: < The header of the request being sent >

• Request payload: < The payload of the request being sent >

12) Response details:

• Status code: '200'

• Response headers: < The header of the response being received >

• Response payload: < The payload of the response being received >

Compare with the External System's Incident

Navigate to the corresponding Incident in the external system.

Check the values in the fields match those you noted when you saved the Incident in the internal system.

Your external system's Incident record should look like this (depending on the system you're integrating with, your record may look different; the important matter is that the values match):

13) State: 'Resolved'

14) Resolution code: < Your Resolution code >

15) Resolution notes: < Your Resolution notes >

Navigate to the Notes tab.

Your Notes tab should look like this:

16) Activities: < Your Resolution code/notes & State > (added by < your.external.system.user >)

If you have completed this testing for the first time (sending to your own instance only), you are now ready to move on and look at running Build at the Integration level.