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Staging production into test environment
Hello, does anyone have instructions on how I can copy the Snow License Manager and Snow Inventory from the production environment to a test environment (both on-prem)?
I can't find any suitable information directly on the Snow website.
Many thanks in advance
Achim
Hello @Achim Mensching​,
I don't think there is a predefined or documented way to do this.
You will have to reach out to your Snow Accpount Manager anyway, as the SLM license key is activated per server and linked to the hardwqare.
So you will have to get a new license key for your test environment.
Other than that, it depends on what you want to achieve.
Assuming you don't need an exact copy of the production environment, I'd say you will have to do more or less the same activities as for a server move:
Of course, you could also clone your Snow application server(s) but that does not resolve the issue with the SLM license key.
Hope this helps to get an idea,
Axel
Lots of discussions and useful advice here, here and here. Snow also have some docs here specifically about moving databases.
As Axel has already mentioned, best to reach out to Snow about doing this.