View and Manage Compare Results

Use this page to display the results of AIX Profile Manager compare actions. On this page, you can perform the following tasks:
  • View the detailed result of a compare action
  • Delete compare results from the Director server
  • Import local files as AIX Profile Manager compare results or export compare results into a compressed file

Each compare result is valid only for one system. If a compare action is launched for several systems or groups, one compare result line is generated for each selected system or each system managed by AIX Profile Manager belonging to the selected groups.

Actions

View
Display the detailed results of compare actions. The Compare details page with the result of comparison opens. If the status of the action is Error, a window opens that displays the error message returned by the command on the system. Only one result can be selected for this action.
Delete Compare Results
Select this action to delete one or more compare results from the Director server.
Import Compare Results
Open a window to load a file containing an AIX Profile Manager compare result from your local file system into the Director server.
Export Compare Results
Open a window to export one or more compare results in a serialized format and save it on your file system.
Actions
Open a list of available actions. This list contains actions that are provided in the toolbar as well as actions that are common to all tables. For common table actions, see "Table navigation in IBM® Systems Director."
Search the table
Search the table with a string or phrase. When you type a string in this field, matching strings are highlighted in the currently displayed table. When you click Search, all the pages of a table are searched for the provided string. Only the rows that contain the string are displayed in the table.

Attributes

If the compare action is not completed, only the system name is displayed and all the other attributes are in the Loading state.

Profile name
The name of the profile that is used as basis for the compare action.
System name
The name of the system where the comparison was performed. If the compare action was performed on several systems or groups, one line is issued for each system managed by AIX Profile Manager.
Profile differences (%)
The percentage of differences found (in number of parameters) between the reference profile and the configuration of the system, or " " if the comparison failed. The percentage is prefixed with "" if the percentage of differences is less than the warning threshold. The percentage is prefixed with"" if the percentage of differences is between the warning and the critical thresholds. The percentage is prefixed with "" if the percentage of differences is greater than the critical threshold. Clicking the percentage difference status of a result leads to the Compare Details page. If the profile difference status is unknown, it opens a window displaying the error message returned by the system.
Date of retrieval
The time and date when the compare action was completed.
Description
The description you enter during the comparison process to describe the action.