Managing your HP-UX inventory with HP SIM (430146-002, January 2009)

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Snapshot comparison
The Snapshot Comparison feature enables you to compare data between two to four different servers
running the same operating system, or compare two to four historical data
collections for the same
server. You select the type of comparison, what attributes you want to compare, and HP SIM
generates a report showing all of the comparison results.
Selecting
Reports

Snapshot Comparison
launches the tool. You select one to four
servers in
Step 1
. Appropriate error checking is performed before proceeding to
Step 2
. If you select one
server, it must have at least two historical data collections available; no more than four servers can be
selected.
In
Step 2
, you select the data
collections to compare. If one server was selected, select between two
and four of the available historical data collections for comparison. If two to four servers were
selected, select one data collection from each server.
In
Step 3
, select one or more
of the comparison categories as well as a baseline for the comparison.
The baseline is the data collection selected to which the remaining data collections will be compared.
After comparison categories are selected and a baseline chosen,
Run Now
launche
s the report.