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Change Determination Process | Change Management and Compliance
OMNM 6.5.2 User Guide 519
Change Determination Process
If you run the Change Determination Process , it collects all the configuration changes that
occurred on the target resources since the last time this process ran. It also associates these changes
with the date and time when the Change Determination process runs. After running Change
Determination, you can then produce a report (see
Compliance and Change Reporting on page
524)
, outlining all such changes by date and time. This report comes seeded with installation.
OpenManage Network Manager stores incremental changes as
RedcellConfigChangeRecords by
device/timestamp. The
ConfigChangeRecordsDAP Database Aging Policy (DAP) manages how
long the OpenManage Network Manager database retains these records. This DAP’s default setting
stores incremental records for 30 days, then archives or purges them. Reporting shows only records
in the database; therefore, by default, the
Configuration Change Report shows only resource
changes made in the last 30 days, but no older. Change this default by changing the number of days
to retain such records with the DAP.
The next section describes
Change Determination Process Workflow .