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Antony_Hawkins
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8 years ago

ConfigSource to compare to a known template (PoC)

LM Config is awesome - but until now you've not been able to compare a config to a "known good" template. Now you can... Edit for v1.4.0+: Now gives a MUCH cleaner output (in my humble opinion) - s...
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8 years ago

Compare_Config_To_Template_POC_v1 v1.4.0: 2GTW7W

So, what's so much better about v1.4.0?

The output.

Instead of printing the config, then printing (rather clumsily) all the discrepancies, then printing the template, which could result in a huge output, it now just prints the config, with a marker comment at the end of any line that differs from the template:

You'll see that the comment consists of a key phrase, and the corresponding line from the template.

A groovy scripted check alerts on the presence of one of more occurrences of the key phrase (hard coded in as ' <<<<<<<<<< This line differs from template. Template line is: ', but this could be changed or tokenized to suit requirements).