Specifications

Chapter 10: Configuration comparison
This page is comprised of several key details. The left column displays a list of
categories of attributes that you can examine for comparison on a category by
category basis. The degree of differences for each category is also displayed in a
gauge to the left of the category name. The green represents similarities and the
white space represents differences. The overall matching percentage based
score is computed and presented by the gauge on the results pane with a
comparison of the direct attribute counts below. The meaning of the colors is
similar to the attribute categories.
The majority of the results page is dedicated to the comparison of the selected
objects.
Comparing an object to itself
To compare an object to itself over time, change the time selectors to the times
you want, and then click Go. This way you can compare a virtual machine or host
to itself over time to understand configuration drift of the object and to pinpoint
configuration changes across a specific data collection interval and therefore a
specific time frame.
Comparing two objects
If you select two objects from the search results, the comparison between the two
objects occurs at the last point when data was collected for each one individually.
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