Comparison service in drift management

When you create a comparison job, you provide a baseline and a target with a qualification set. For the baseline, you can provide an Include and Exclude set that defines which attributes of a CI to include in the comparison and which attributes to exclude.

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You also provide information about the type of comparison that should be performed such as one-to-one comparison, many-to-one comparison, compare, and compare recursively. With this information, the comparison job contains the details of the comparison that is to be performed.

The information about a comparison job is stored in Drift Management-specific AR System forms. When you start a comparison job, the job manager plug-in is activated. The Job Manager plug-in is an AR System plug-in that manages the running, cancelling, and querying of jobs.

After some background processing by the job manager, the comparison service runs the following tasks:


 

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