Governance of the discovery system

We have the Discovery system V2 and haven't used it up until now due to other priorities. We are getting ready to release it for use to some business analysts and I'm curious how other companies govern the use of the system:
1. Since the scenrios user predefined userids and passwords do you lock them downs at all?
2. Do you image the system and restore it back to the image on a schedule or somehow prevent changes to the delivered demos?
3. Do you create your own demos?

I have come across same questions when we started to use Discovery V3.
We took a full image before we started to use the system.
As only SAP team admins are using standard user id's, we don't have problems with user id. As a good practice we have asked colleagues not to change standard function. We have created user id for Functional/Technical folks.
We have also started to create demos. Hopefully it won't break the system.
I am not sure about SAP support of Discovery through Support packs ?  
Bala

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