Server modes

PolicyCenter has a set of features that simplify implementation and testing, such as the ability to enable and advance the testing clock, and access to the Internal Tools pages. While these features are helpful during implementation, there can be negative consequences if they are used in a production environment.

In addition to this, certain types of product model changes could introduce data integrity violations if executed on a production server.

To control access to these features, PolicyCenter can be started in different server modes. A server mode is a server setting that determines whether development and testing features are enabled during server start. There are three server modes:

dev - Development
test - Test
prod - Production

For these modes:

In development mode, Guidewire enables all implementation and testing features.
In test mode, Guidewire disable all implementation and testing features except for the ability to enable and advance the testing clock. Guidewire designs test mode for testing functionality in a production-like environment with the one exception of being able to advance the clock to test time-based processes.
In production mode, Guidewire disables all implementation and testing features.