Exercise: Create Environments

Estimated Time to Complete: 10 minutes

Overview

Environments ↗ contain information about a ServiceNow instance and how to access it.

Next, you will create an Environment record for both "Production" and "Development" on the Controller instance where AEMC is installed

Before Exercise

After Exercise

Instructions

1. Log in to Prod.

2. Click All >> type environment >> click Environments

3. Click New in the top-right.

4. Complete the form as below.

   Field	Value
   Name	Dev
   Instance Type	Development
   Dev Instance URL
   Instance credential	Pipeline_Credentials
   Is Controller?	UNCHECKED
   Instance Id	This will auto populate after clicking Validate.

5. Click Validate

6. Click Submit to finish creating the environment record.

7. Click New in the top right.

8. Complete the form as below.

   Field	Value
   Name	Prod
   Instance Type	Production
   Prod Instance URL
   Instance credential	Pipeline_Credentials
   Is Controller?	CHECK THE BOX
   Instance Id	This will auto populate after clicking Validate.

9. Click the "Validate" button.

10. Click Submit to finish creating the environment record.

Lessons Learned

In this exercise, you have:

• Understood the function and importance of Environment records in the ServiceNow platform.

• Acquired the knowledge of validating these Environment records.

• Successfully configured Environment records for both Development and Production instances in your Prod environment.