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Creating/Comparing Promoted Configuration Templates | Configuration Management

478 OMNM 6.5.3 User Guide

Creating/Comparing Promoted Configuration Templates

If you want to store “template” configurations you have promoted, and compare them to previous

templates, here are the steps to do that.

Select a configuration file and promote it to be a template.

Suggestions: Settle on a naming convention for these, perhaps one that includes a date so you

can easily find and compare templates from different dates. You can also create a label for

such configurations by simply typing in the

Label for Configuration

field. This should make

such configurations easy to retrieve, particularly in the expanded Configuration Files portlet.

Enter the needed variables.

Save the template.

Right-click to

Deploy

it.

Select a single target and make sure to check the

Generate and Save Configuration Only

checkbox

Execute

. Rather than deploying the file, this saves a copy of the file as it would be generated

for the single target in the

Configuration Files

When you have more than one of these configurations, find the files and Ctrl + click to select

a pair of them, then right-click to

Compare

them.