ServiceDesk Plus on-premise Staging/Test System

Hi folks,

I saw this question was answered some time ago (over 2 years), so I wanted to see if any additional automation or documentation has been added to accomplish this.

My goal is to have a relatively easy and automated staging system to test both configuration changes and patches/hotfixes.

I've got an application server, and I'm replicating the VM from the server to create my test system. I have my database on a dedicated SQL server. My plan is to attach the test server to a copy of the database created within the same database server.

Can someone provide the steps for copying the data and activating the test system? Also, has anyone written anything to automate this process?

Thanks,
Adam