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Hi, welcome to this screencast to cover just some basics for SPM.
Firstly, I’ll just quickly cover the user interface.
You’ll notice that this instance is using the default port of 7467.
Across the top, you have navigation links to different functional areas: reports, changes, compares, extracts, searching, general configuration.
Below that is the current page and breadcrumb trail.
On the left, we have an SPM client search box, and navigation again.
In the main center pane, is the primary page content.
On the far right pane is the secondary, content and messages section.
SPM runs nightly by default, and can easily provide historical data to narrow down a change to the day it occurred. That history will go back as far as you like to keep it around!
To show you a quick example of some changes, I’m going to click on reports.
Then in the main pane under the change reports title, I’m clicking on report ‘Sample Change Report’, which is a previously configured report.
This is the report viewer page and displays 3 columns of information.
The first column is the SPM client, the second column is the date this change was recognized, and the third column lists the Client modules where a change was detected.
The Client name is a link to the main Change browser, and each of the modules link directly to the detected change.
Selecting the ‘haus’ Client’s SysFile module renders a page showing that root’s /.profile has been modified. Specifically configuration is new and represented in Green.
Below this page’s navigation, a version number, date, and time are presented. Since all changes are historically important, any change is given a version number. This one is Version 1.15, and the date time show that SPM detected this change on February 9th 2011 at 05:30am UTC.
To the left of this information is another version number, date, and time. This represents the version last time this configuration was modified.
One final thing to point out is the legend at the bottom of the screen. It communicates the colors used to represent an addition of configuration, green as seen in our example, a removal of configuration as red, and a detailed value change in yellow.
Another example of this is to browse the most current Client change reports.
Clicking back on ‘reports’ from the top navigation, I click on ‘Change Reports’. The main pane now displays the most current daily, weekly, and monthly change reports for each client.
If I click on the Client haus’ monthly report, I am presented with a report of the Client modules that have changed since last month. The columns should look familiar from the previous example.
Clicking on the Client’s ‘Device’ module to review the changes we see some detailed value changes marked in yellow indicating a detailed value change, and some additions to the configuration in green.
Again at the top (below the page navigation) are the version numbers, dates, and times.
For a broader analysis of change across a number of Clients, take a look at the SPM search functionality. That’s all for now, I hope this has given you a little better understanding of some of the basic navigation in SPM.
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