Generating a summary of configuration components
The config-diff
tool generates a summary of the configuration in a local or remote directory server instance.
About this task
The config-diff
tool is useful for comparing configuration settings on the server instance when troubleshooting issues or when verifying configuration settings on newly-added servers. The tool can interact with the local configuration regardless of whether the server is running.
Steps
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To generate a summary of configuration components, run
config-diff
Example:
$ bin/config-diff
generates a summary of a local online server. -
To generate a comparison of the current configuration with the pre-installation configuration, run the following.
$ bin/config-diff --sourceLocal \ --sourceBaseline \ --targetLocal \ --exclude differs-after-install \ --outputFile configuration-steps.dsconfig
This comparison ignores any changes that could be made by the installer and writes the output to a file called
configuration-steps.dsconfig
.You can use this file as the basis for a script to configure a new server identical to the local server.
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To view other available tool options, run
config-diff
--help
.