What is the 'glide.installation.production' property for?

[Uncle Rob]

This property evaluates as true on any instance I run it on across multiple accounts.

Is it used for anything?   Is it supposed to be manually set?

[akt_snow]

Hi Robert,

This a OOB system property created to identify the production instance.

I don't think that it has any significance.

One usage found for this was in the Welcome Pages.

Hope this helped.

Thanks,

Avneet

[Uncle Rob]

Hey Avneet,

I'm aware that it is OOB, but it does not appear to be working properly.   Every instance I've ever tried it on (even called up friends to have them check it on theirs).   We've never had the property evaluate as False, even on non-prod systems.   I'm wondering if the property is now vestigial.

[sherman_1206]

Did you try running it on a demo instance?   I ask because I wonder if the property is true for customer instances and not staging instances or demo instances or for classes.   The property signifies for SN internal orchestration that this instance is a customers don't touch it.   Perhaps.  

[akt_snow]

Robert,

It is quite possible. I've never seen this property being used earlier or set to false( even in Non-Prods). except with one customer who used to configure these appropriately. I would suggest raising a Hi ticket to confirm the use of this.

Thanks,

Avneet

[david_legrand]

Hi Robert,

Today, it's used for at least one thing, to prevent the zboot (reset to ServiceNow baseline) action

So basically, even on non prod instance, it's good to keep it this way (just in case someone tries to zboot your developments)

For example, I have a script to zboot a demo instance, I firstly set the value to false and then perform the zboot.

Regards,

David