What are connections, credentials, connections and credentials alias in ServiceNow? And how can we create them?

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Credentials and Connection information are required to gain access to a computer or network device for Discovery, Service Mapping, and Cloud Management or to perform work using Orchestration.

Connection
A connection is an integration with a system, such as an IP address or endpoint with protocols. One can create different types of connections depends on one's needs.

Credential
A credential is the authentication data required to make the connection, such as an ID and password. Like connections one can create types of credentials as per one's needs.

Connection and Credential Alias
This alias associates to connection information and the credential data required to complete the integration, and resolves during runtime.

To Create a credential follow the below steps:

1. Click on All and navigate to Connections and Credentials. And select Credentials

2. Click New to add a new credential. When prompted to select which type of credentials select API Key Credentials
3. Give a Name to the credential. For the API Key field, add a prefix of apikey to the key copied from the platform.
   For Example : apikey <sgu_677euxxxxxxdgf6>

4. Click Submit to create the credential

To Create a connection follow the below steps:

1. Click on All and navigate to Connections and Credentials. And select Connections
2. Click New to add a new connection. When prompted to select which type of connection select HTTP(s) Connection
3. Give a Name to the connection. For Credential if one clicks on the search button, one can find the latest created credential that you want to add.
4. Add x_stgu_test_zoom.Stackguardian as Connection alias
5. Provide the Connection URL as the API endpoint url for example: https://api.app.stackguardian.io/

7. Click Submit to create the connection