Configuring A Viewer - Extreme Networks EPICenter Reference Manual

Figure 77: The Diff Results window (using WinMerge)
The functions within the Diff viewer depend on the viewer you elect to install. See the documentation
for the product you have selected for information about using the Diff viewer.

Configuring a Viewer

The Configuration Manager View and Diff functions each require a viewer application; View uses a
simple text editor to show the contents of a configuration file, while the Diff function uses a Diff viewer
to compare and display the differences between two configuration files.
The View function by default uses a built-in viewer, but you can configure EPICenter to use an
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alternate application. You can use a viewer such as NotePad or WordPad in Windows, or
or Solaris.
The Diff function requires an external Difference viewer. A difference viewer displays the two
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configuration files simultaneously and indicate the places where they differ. You cannot use the Diff
function until you have configured a viewer. You can use any Difference viewer you have installed
on your client system:
For Windows, WinMerge, an open source viewer, is assumed as the default.
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For Linux or Solaris, sdiff (in
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To configure either of these viewers, select Options, then Setup Viewers from the Configuration menu
or from a right-click pop-up menu. The Setup Viewers dialog box appears, as shown in
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/usr/bin/sdiff
Configuring a Viewer
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