Change Determination Process - Dell OpenManage Network Manager Client Manual

Change Determination Process

If you run the Change Determination (CD) Process, it collects all the configuration changes that
occurred on the target resources since the last time the CD process ran. It also associates these
changes with the date and time when the CD process runs. After running CD, you can then
produce a report (see Compliance and Change Reporting on page 329), outlining all such changes
by date and time. This report comes seeded with installation.
Dell OpenManage Network Manager stores incremental changes as RedcellConfigChangeRecords
by device/timestamp. The ConfigChangeRecordsDAP Database Aging Policy (DAP) manages how
long the OpenManage Network Manager database retains these records. This DAP's default setting
stores incremental records for 30 days, then archives or purges them. Reporting shows only records
in the database; therefore, by default, the Configuration Change Report shows only resource
changes made in the last 30 days, but no older. Change this default by changing the number of days
to retain such records with the DAP.
The next section describes Change Determination Process Workflow.
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