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1. Incident Investigation

1.1 Reactive Change Analysis

With Evolven Comparison, you can quickly identify granular configuration changes by seeing what changed in particular environments over a designated period.

1.1.1

Initial Search

Start at the Environment Tab

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Select Environment to Investigate

(0:25 sec)

Zoom-in by setting the Time Filter

(0:34 sec)

Use the Environment Map to drill down in a particular sub-environment where changes are detected

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1.1.2

Dive Deeper

Use Change Drill Down to drill down into changes

(1:23 min)

Apply Change Filter to narrow down suspects

(0:56 sec)

Use Close Changes to close legitimate changes

(0:23 sec)

Use Customize Significance to modify significance assigned to changes

(0:38 sec)

Generate a Change Report

(0:34 sec)

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	1.2 Reactive Comparison

	Execute comparisons of the environment with historical snapshot, last good baseline, and a working (comparable) environment.

1.2.1

Identify Suspicious Environment Differences

Create a new Comparison Plan that compares a working and a non-working environment

(1:19 min)

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1.2.2

Zoom into Details of Suspicious Environment Difference

Use the Comparison Result Map to drill down in a particular sub-environment where differences are detected

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1.2.3

Review the Parameters of Suspicious Environment Differences

Use the Differences Table to drill down into differences

(0:37 sec)

Use Show Path Location to be taken into the actual configuration of the source and get a better understanding of the context of the different parameters

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	1.3 Proactive Change Analysis

	Prevent environment incidents, proactively identify undesired changes and difference, before they turn into environment incidents.

1.3.1

At-a-glance Know What Changed in Your Environment

Get a quick view of the current state in Evolven Comparison's Dashboard

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1.3.2

Investigate Changes in Specific Environments

Use the Environment View to drill down into target environment

(0:34 sec)

Use the Environment Map to drill down into the actual environments and see where changes have occurred by clicking on the plus sign and following the marked trail of changes.

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1.3.3

Create a Drift Comparison Plan

Use Drift Comparison to create a drift comparison Plan

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1.3.4

Understand Comparison Differences

View the Comparison Result Map

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and generate a Comparison Report

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2. Release Validation

	2.1 Validate Pre-requisites

	Compare production and pre-production environments prior to release in order to ensure that pre-production sufficiently emulates production.

2.1.1

Prepare for a Smooth Release

Create a new Logical Environment for test and production

(0:57 sec)

Create a New Baseline Snapshot of the test environment a

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2.1.2

Create Plan for Application Release

Create a new Comparison Plan to compare the environment and a snapshot

(1:19 min)

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	2.2 Validate Release

	Compare production and pre-production after release to verify the accurate transition of release content and configuration.

2.2.1

Create Comparison Plans

Create a new Comparison Plan

(1:19 sec)

Define Expected Differences

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2.2.2

Focus on Critical Differences

Filter differences in the Comparison Result Map

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3. Integrity Check

	3.1 Consistent Servers

	Validate the consistency of different environments, ensuring that all changes in one environment are mirrored by the other environment.

3.1.1

Select a Server in Discovered Environments

Use the Environment Tab to select a server in discovered environments

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3.1.2

Create Comparison Plan

Create a new Comparison Plan comparing two servers

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3.1.3

See Details of Changes

Use Differences Table to drill down into results to find likely risks

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Home Tab

Use the Dashboard to see the current situation in discovered environments

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Drill down into the Target Environment

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Environment Tab

	Environment Views

	Select a Server (0:41 sec)

	Select Environment to investigate (0:24 sec)

	Create a new Logical Environment (0:57 sec)

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	Environment Changes

	Use Environment View to drill down (1:23 sec)

	Use Environment Map to drill down into logical environments (0:39 sec)

	Time Filter (0:34 sec)

	Change Filter (0:56 sec)

	Modify Significance assigned to changes (0:38 sec)

	Close Legitimate Changes (0:23 sec)

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	Snapshots

Create a new Baseline Snapshot

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Comparison Tab

	Comparison Plans

	Create a new Comparison Plan (1:19 sec)

	Create a Drift Comparison (1:07 sec)

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	Comparison Results

	Use the Comparison Result Map to drill down (0:43 sec)

	Use the Differences Table to drill down (0:37 sec)

	Define Expected Differences (0:49 sec)

	Show Path Location (0:25 sec)

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Reports

	Change Report (0:34 sec)

	Comparison Report (0:47 sec)

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1. Incident Investigation

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3. Integrity Check

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