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A This feature automatically appears upon upgrade; usually smaller enhancements that do not disrupt daily use for existing customers.
C This feature is immediately available to all customers but must be specifically configured.
M This feature is not available to existing customers and must be manually configured. This is typical of certain types of metadata changes that could adversely affect existing deployments. This content may be available as a package in the Ivanti Marketplace.
N This feature immediately available to new installations and not to existing customers.
P This feature is restricted to, and relevant for, on-premise deployments only.
S This feature is restricted to, and relevant for, cloud deployments only.

Ivanti Neurons for ITSM - Administrator and User Help Beta Access Process

To access the Beta features within your staging environment, you need to activate them using one of the following two methods within the application:

Global Constant: Change the required Global Constant value to the appropriate value shown in Default Global Constants to activate the feature. Refresh the application after saving to ensure the feature is active and visible in the UI.

Or

Configuration Change: This requires a service request to be raised for your staging environment to activate the feature.

a. Create a service request to add the feature to your staging environment. Refer to More Information for how to raise a request.
b. Provide the name of the feature to be activated in the support request for your staging environment.

The Beta features are only available within the Staging and UAT environments.

Release 2024.3

Feature

Description

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Topic Link

AITSM

The following new features and enhancements have been added to the ITSM generative AI capability:

Neurons AI (Widget Generation) - Neurons AI allows you to create reports/widgets using text-based input. You can generate reports/widgets, and add them to a new or existing dashboard without any complicated settings and configuration.

This feature is supported only with Dashboard V2.

Localization support - Incident Summary and Knowledge Base Articles can now be generated in multiple languages as localization support is extended to these features. For this to work, Localization should be enabled in the AI Configuration Hub.

Fields Customization - The fields used for generating the AI Summary and Knowledge Article can now be customized by mapping the field of your choice.

This customization and flexibility ensures the AI content generation meets your business needs.

S

Neurons AI

 

AI Configuration Hub

 

Modern Survey

The following enhancements have been made to Modern Survey:

Add New Survey - You can build new surveys from scratch without having to depend on only the OOTB surveys.

Additional controls and customizations - More control and flexibility is available when creating surveys:

Color picker - Pick and choose colors of your choice to match your branding.

Question Panel and Add Question button - Easily add new questions to the survey by clicking the Add New Question button or by dragging from the Question Panel.

Drag questions - Reorder questions.

Smiley question type - Delete irrelevant smileys from the list.

Dynamic questions - Tailor surveys to suit your business needs and add conditions for certain questions to appear based on the response.

C

Setting up Surveys

 

Modern Survey

Enhanced Search

The Enhanced Search capability which was limited to a few workspaces has been extended to all Self Service Mobile workspaces.

In addition, a new global constant - SearchIndexAge_{businessobjectname} sets the search limit to the defined age range of the record along while restricting the search to that specific business object. You need to raise a service request for Ivanti Cloud Operations to enable the Enhanced Search feature.

S Enhanced Search

Azure AD Import

The Azure AD feature is enhanced to streamline the process of importing users through Azure AD.

With Azure Active Directory (AD), you can maintain your organization's employees along with the ability to make necessary customizations.

A

Azure AD Import

Chat Configuration

The Self Service Chat settings are now consolidated into a single workspace for ease of use.

A

Customizing Chat Feature

Service Request in Microsoft Teams Bot

The Microsoft (MS) Teams Bot has been enhanced to support creating service requests from the MS Teams Bot. The end user now has a seamless experience without the need to switch to another application to raise a service request.

A

Using Microsoft Teams Bot

Graphical Action Designer (GAD) Enhancements

The following updates to the GAD have been added:

The Undo button function now restores action blocks to the design board while maintaining any configuration changes made to action blocks that were removed from the design board.

An Enable/Disable button has been added for Quick Actions in the GAD UI.

A

Using the Graphical Actions Designer

Run for Child Quick Action

The following new features have been added to the Run for Child Quick Action:

New button: Opens the Graphical Action Designer (GAD) in a new tab, where you can add a new action to use for Run for Child.

Edit button: Opens the action you have selected to run for Run for Child, and displays that action in a new GAD browser tab.

Refresh button: Click to refresh the Action to Run drop-down list. For example, if you added a new action as described in New above, the refresh adds it to the Action to Run drop-down list.

A

Run for Child

Neurons Bot Quick Action

Quick Actions on CI Records:

The capability to directly trigger Neurons Bots for specific Configuration Item (CI) records is added.

Display Log Messages:

Retrieve log messages from invoked bots and store within ITSM.

Display log messages against a bot invocation.

Refresh Button in Neurons Bot (GAD only):

A new Refresh button added to the Neurons Quick Action settings loads the latest definitions from Neurons allowing timely updates. A manual refresh can be requested every 5 minutes.

A

Invoking a Neurons Bot

 

Neurons Bots Quick Action

 

RBVM Data Import Connector

The RBVM Data Import Connector now includes import/mapping of CIs from RBVM to ITSM.

The connector configuration UI feature enables you to easily set up a connection, set filter criteria for the data, and set schedules to run the connector and import from RBVM. Once the data is pulled from RBVM, based on the filter criteria, Security Events and CIs are created, and if the Event Severity and Risk Score of the Security Event is greater than or equal to 9 (the default value), Security Incidents are created.

C

Sync Data from RBVM

Enterprise Landing Page

The Enterprise Landing Page facilitate you to navigate to different Self Service portals or facilities based on the category you need to access. You can tailor the landing page to view and access the content specific to selected role such as HR, IT, or Marketing

N

Enterprise Landing Page

Self Service 3rd party chatbot

You can enable chatbot interaction with a 3rd party using the Chat with Support and Chatbot widgets. These widgets are configurable for each Self Service page (per role). With this feature, you can seamlessly manage both chatbot and Agent chat.

A

Chat with Support

 

Working with Global Settings

Self Service page designer role and organization

You can design your page and save as template for both Role and Organization in the Self Service portal using the Organization Selector dropdown option. However, the Config Homepage for MSP global constant must be enabled to use this feature.

C

Page Settings

Configure Card for List Widgets

In the Self Service Management portal, you can customize each item/card using Configure Card feature in the Options settings of the List Widget.

A

Page Settings

Configurable Banners with Global Settings

In the Self Service Management portal, you can customize and configure Banner for each page and Service Catalog from the Global Settings. You can also select small, medium, and large sizes for the banner.

A

Working with Global Settings

Release 2024.2

Feature

Description

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Topic Link

AITSM

With Ivanti's AITSM Generative-AI capabilities, IT Support and Service Desk Analysts can improve their efficiency by reducing manual effort in summarizing incidents and tickets, and generating knowledge base articles.

C

ITSM Gen-AI

Modern Survey

Modern Survey is the enhanced and improved survey feature for gathering and evaluating customer feedback. The Modern Survey feature comes with modern aesthetics, responsive design, and real-time preview, ensuring optimal usability across all devices.

C

Modern Survey

HR Case Survey

A survey feature is now available for the HR Case business object. The survey feature enables customers to return feedback for HR Case records they are associated with.

Survey metrics data is also available to view in the Survey Metric View workspace for all HR Case surveys that are returned.

C HR Case Survey

Neurons Bots Integration for ITSM

The Ivanti Neurons Bots integration allows Neurons Bots defined on an Ivanti Neurons tenant to be executed from within Neurons for ITSM. This integration is provided in the form of a new Quick Action that enables users to configure the inputs required by the Neurons Bot, so that they are automatically populated from the current business object context at run time.

C

Invoking a Neurons Bot

Quick Links (Self Service)

Enhanced editing features for Quick Links are added in the Page Settings editor. Use Quick Links to display useful links to Business Objects, workspaces or web pages. Quick Links can be displayed in your page design as lists, tiles or a carousel.

C

Quick Links (Self Service)

Exporting archived data into readable format

The Retrieve Archived Data page enables exporting of archived data in standard readable formats. The displayed data columns in the report are customizable and support advanced filtering and search capabilities.

S

Data Archival

Exporting and Importing Page Setting and Global Setting Templates

Administrators can create reusable templates by exporting and importing page layouts, settings, widgets, and module information. This helps to easily modify widgets, settings, and properties. Additionally, you can export and import changes to Global Settings, such as altering the page layout, editing, or removing the logo, adjusting primary and secondary buttons, and more.

C

Working with Style Editor

Knowledge Feedback and Ratings

Self Service users can mark knowledge articles as helpful, provide feedback and ratings, and also view the average ratings of each knowledge article. However, the Administrator should enable the settings to add ratings and feedback in the knowledge workspace.

C

Creating and Configuring the Knowledge Workspace

Additional Settings in the Service Catalog Workspace

The Service Catalog workspace enables you to activate the following features:

Submission Dialog Box for Mobile

Submission Dialog Box for Desktop

Add to favorites

Share as Service Catalog

Save for later

C

Working with Page Settings - Service Catalog

Five Quick Actions marked as deprecated

Five Quick Actions have been marked as deprecated prior to their actual removal scheduled for ITSM release 2024.3.

 

New Quick Actions cannot be created from deprecated action types. Existing Quick Actions can still be edited, but can cause error/warning messages to appear.

 

We recommend that customers discontinue use of these Quick Actions now, ahead of their removal in the future release.

Please see the Topic Links alongside for a list of the five affected actions.

A

Create a Recognition Rule Action

 

License Manager Action

 

Send Mobile Notification Action

Send Mobile Notification Action

 

Unlink Software Inventory Action

 

Unlink Software Inventory Action

Unlink Software Product Action

Configuring Trusted Agent with PowerShell

Workflows and tasks can be automated through trusted agents to receive and process requests using PowerShell scripts.

C

Configuring Trusted Agent with PowerShell

LOB support for Chat

You can now link Service Desk Analysts to Line of Business (LOB) departments (IT, HR, Facilities, Security). Chat conversations are then routed to Service Desk Analysts skilled in that particular area.

C

Enable chat support for Line of Business (LOB) departments

Default Banner Style

A default banner can be set across workspaces in the Self Service portal.

A

Default Banner Style

Render My Items in list widget

List widget can be set in the Self Service portal to fetch search data based on Saved Search, Service Catalog, My Items, Favorites, and Validation List.

A

To add list

Export and Import Page settings

Page settings in the Self Service portal can be imported and exported as a template.

A

Export and Import Page settings