ServiceNow Instance Name

kathymorris
Tera Contributor

Hi All,

We are looking for a name for our ServiceNow instance where we are going to build new projects. (We already have Dev/Test, Prod). Does anyone have any ideas on a creative Name? 

Best,

Kathy

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There's no authoritative "standard" but what Suresh said is pretty commonplace (except that I wouldn't use the actual suffix "prod" in the production instance) - and I've been around ServiceNow for over a decade. It all depends on your organization's needs. Since you don't like snow 😉 let's say your company name is Rainfall.   You would have at a minimum:

rainfall.service-now.com and rainfalldev.service-now.com

then you could add:

rainfallsandbox.service-now.com and/or rainfalltest.service-now.com

rainfallqa.service-now.com and/or rainfalluat.service-now.com

rainfalluatpreprod.service-now.com and/or rainfallstage.service-now.com

 

or as you said, if you have multiple dev teams mabe you want

rainfalldev1.service-now.com and rainfalldev2.service-now.com etc.

 

 

Whilst we also struggle with everyone else using Snow in short for ServiceNow, I was surprised to see ServiceNow themselves using it 😉. Eg: https://support.servicenow.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB0952875

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As refer https://www.servicenow.com/community/service-management-forum/how-to-verify-if-instance-is-configure... to see the output from ServiceNow to check if ADC is configured