Key questions about this property
The answers below summarize the purpose, scope, default effect, and review scenarios for this property.
| What does it do? |
This property allows or prevents the instance from being designated as a clone target, enhancing data protection for production environments. |
| What area does it affect? |
Instance Cloning |
| What does the default mean? |
The default value is "false", which means this behavior is disabled by default. |
| When should you review it? |
Review this property when configuring cloning settings for production and sub-production instances. |
Out of the box property record
Raw metadata from the property record.
| Property name |
glide.db.clone.allow_clone_target |
| Sys ID |
3194ef10371120004f6a80f7bcbe5da2 |
| Type |
boolean |
| Application |
Global |
| Default value |
false |
| Description |
Allow this instance to be used as a clone target. Set to false to prevent this instance from being cloned to. Used to provide an additional safeguard which prevents a production instance from being cloned over. Default value is false for production instances and true for sub-prod instances (dev, qa, etc). |
| Updated |
2024-05-25 03:59:59 |
Sources
Official references and nearby text excerpts where this property appears.
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... force chunk threshold when using the GlideRecord – UpdateMultiple methods. • Type: integer • Default value: 100000000 (100 million) • Location: Add the property to the System Property [sys_properties] table. glide.db.clone.allow_clone_target Enables (true) or disables (false) use of a non-production instance as the target for a system clone. • Type: true | false • Default value: false for production instances, true ...
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... across all areas, including, but not limited to potentially malicious access to all data on the ServiceNow instance. Disallow target cloning [New in Security Center 1.3] • Description ◦(Old If glide.db.clone.allow_clone_target is not set to the recommended value of false, then the instance can be used as a clone target, or a record that specifies the instance URL and credentials used ...
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