Environment Setup

Configure .env for instance connection.

The sn CLI reads connection details from a .env file in the project root. Three variables are required to connect to your ServiceNow instance.

.env

SN_INSTANCE=https://your-instance.service-now.com
SN_USER=admin
SN_PASS=your-password

Variable	Required	Description
SN_INSTANCE	Yes	Full URL of your ServiceNow instance (include https://)
SN_USER	Yes	Username with admin or elevated privileges
SN_PASS	Yes	Password for the user
SN_LICENSE_PATH	No	Path to `.sn-license` file (auto-detected if in project root)

Never commit .env to version control. The project .gitignore already excludes it.

Verify your connection by running a simple query:

sn get sys_properties "name=glide.servlet.uri" --fields value

[

{ "value": "https://your-instance.service-now.com/" }

]