Test your pilot Alloy Navigator Express database and customize new workflow

Updated in 2021.2

Review and test your pilot Alloy Navigator Express system that includes data from your production environment and the features from the most recent version.

All data records, such as Computers, Tickets, and Persons, arrive to the pilot database unchanged. Since the workflow customization abilities business logic get enhanced with every version, configuration data gets updated. You will get the all-new, improved business logic for all object Alloy Navigator Express classes.

Precautions for pilot environment with production data

To keep your production data safe and sound, Alloy Navigator Express takes these precautions for the pilot database:

• The Notification Queue is automatically paused

  In order to prevent unnecessary notifications, the Notification Queue in the pilot Alloy Navigator Express database is paused. We recommend that you keep the Notification Queue in the pilot database paused for the whole period of pilot testing.

  For details, see Keep the Notification Queue in the pilot database paused.

• Services are automatically disabled

  In order to prevent data loss in your production system, all services in the pilot Alloy Navigator Express database are disabled. These services include:

  • Active Directory Import
  • Network Inventory Connector
  • Mail Connector
  • Recurrent Ticket Agent
  • Reporting Service

  To fully test your pilot system, you may need to enable some or even all services. Before doing so, configure them to use the pilot data. Make sure that the Mail Connector is configured to use a test mailbox.

  You should not worry about test records appearing in the pilot database, because the final switchover step will import all production data records again.