Enforce production instance behavior

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title: Enforce production instance behavior
description: Configure whether your instance should be handled like a production or non-production instance.
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release: australia
product: Instance Security Hardening Settings
classification: instance-security-hardening-settings
topic_type: reference
last_updated: "2026-09-10"
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breadcrumb: [Access control, Hardening settings, Platform Security]
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# Enforce production instance behavior

Configure whether your instance should be handled like a production or non-production instance.

If the **glide.installation.production** system property is not set to the recommended value of **true**, then the instance is not treated as a production instance, permitting zboot and other potentially dangerous scripts.

Ensure that the property **glide.installation.production** is set to **true** on a production instance.

## More information

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Attribute

</th><th>

Description

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Configuration name

</td><td>

**glide.installation.production**

</td></tr><tr><td>

Configuration type

</td><td>

System Properties \(/sys\_properties\_list.do\)

</td></tr><tr><td>

Data type

</td><td>

Boolean

</td></tr><tr><td>

Recommended value

</td><td>

true

</td></tr><tr><td>

Default value

</td><td>

true

</td></tr><tr><td>

Fallback value

</td><td>

true

</td></tr><tr><td>

Category

</td><td>

[Access control](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/instance-security-hardening-settings/sc-access-control.md)

</td></tr><tr><td>

Security risk

</td><td>

-   Severity score: 6.3
-   CVSS score: Medium
-   Security risk details: Allowing a production instance to be evaluated as non-production can lead to information disclosure or denial of service.

</td></tr><tr><td>

Functional impact

</td><td>

None

</td></tr><tr><td>

Dependencies and prerequisites

</td><td>

None

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>**Parent Topic:**[Access control](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-security/instance-security-hardening-settings/sc-access-control.md)