Managing app development using the App Engine Management Center

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated August 1, 2024
  • 2 minutes to read

    • Track and manage your App Engine Studio (AES) and Creator Studio requests, deployments, applications, and collaborative developers using the App Engine Management Center (AEMC) in your production instance. Additionally, AEMC allows admins to manage app development from intake through production.

    AEMC uses Pipelines and Deployments to deploy applications through different instances. Pipelines and Deployments uses the Application Repository to manage these deployments. For more information, see ServiceNow application repository.

    Each application can either be deployed using the Application Repository or System Update Sets. If you've used Update Sets in the past, but want to switch to using the Application Repository, you can do a one-time conversion to deploy the app using the Application Repository instead. All apps don't have to follow the same deployment. For more information, see Convert custom applications to upgrade from the application repository and System update sets.

    Additional resources for App Engine Management Center

    Learn more about App Engine Management Center ServiceNow resources

    Although you can use AEMC in any instance, for full functionality, you must install AEMC in the production instance. You must also set up the deployment pipelines with the controller instance in production. For more information, see Configure Pipelines and Deployments.

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    Navigating AEMC

    From the AEMC Overview screen, you can navigate to four additional views: Requests, Pipelines, Custom apps, and Developers by selecting icons in the primary navigation bar.

    Table 1. AEMC primary navigation bar
    Page Description
    Overview High-level view of all intake, app, collaboration, and deployment requests, with a graph showing new requests of each type over the last 90 days. You can also see a high-level view of your pipelines and application metrics.
    Requests Full list of each request type broken down by approval status.
    Pipelines High-level view of the number of open deployment requests in each instance and within each pipeline. Selecting a pipeline or an environment in a pipeline displays all active deployment requests.
    Note:
    If you view deployment requests in a production instance, all Closed - Published deployment requests for that environment are listed.
    Custom apps Charts and graphs illustrating the status of your active applications, and a list of all custom apps in development or production. You can view details for individual apps, including usage information, deployment history, and collaborators.
    Developers Charts and graphs illustrating total and active developers, as well as developers by department. You can view details for individual developers, including the apps for which they are collaborators and their request history.