The Comparisons Details Page for I to I

This comparison allows you to validate that current state of an installation by comparing it to an other know good installation.

Because only the model reference and comparison object area changes, the following discussion will focus only on the area of the comparisons page that is different.

Reference Host

Specifies which hosts to use as a reference model for the comparison. This also includes a second field that requires that you specify where in the hierarchical files structure to limit the comparison. If you use the top of the tree structure you will evaluate the entire host.

Comparison Host

Specifies which hosts to compare to the reference host's model. This also includes a second field that requires that you specify where in the hierarchical files structure to limit the comparison.

Options

Defines some parameters when taking a snapshot of the host.

Include All Sub-Directories in Comparison — This causes the provisioning software to recursively follow all subdirectories. within a parent directory.

Follow Symbolic Links Found in Directories — This causes the provisioning software to resolve symbolic links to determine that what the link points to is also valid.

Include Temporary Files Generated by Scripts During Comparison — This causes the provisioning software to include any legacy files generated by running a script. This can be used to verify that a particular script has or has not been run on all the hosts included in the comparison.

Directories & Files to Ignore During Comparison

Allows you to specify things to ignore during this comparison. This feature allows the provisioning software to accommodate changes to things like log files without causing the comparison to fail.