diff --git a/doc/sphinx-guides/source/developers/dev-environment.rst b/doc/sphinx-guides/source/developers/dev-environment.rst
index 4b793d0fc71..ca12314c2ca 100755
--- a/doc/sphinx-guides/source/developers/dev-environment.rst
+++ b/doc/sphinx-guides/source/developers/dev-environment.rst
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ As a `Java Enterprise Edition <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Platform,_Enter
 
 Glassfish 4.1 is required (not any earlier or later versions until https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/2628 is resolved), which can be downloaded from http://download.oracle.com/glassfish/4.1 . If you have downloaded Glassfish as part of a Netbeans bundle, you can manually add the proper version by clicking "Tools", "Servers", "Add Server".
 
+By default, Glassfish reports analytics information.  The administration guide suggests this can be disabled with ``asadmin create-jvm-options -Dcom.sun.enterprise.tools.admingui.NO_NETWORK=true``, should this be found to be undesirable for development purposes.
+
 PostgreSQL
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