Drift identification
The comparison service compares the CIs as defined in the comparison job and if any of the CIs fail to meet the comparison criteria, this failure is flagged as a drift. Drift is defined in one of the following ways:
- All unmatched CIs in the baseline are tagged with drift type Removed.
- All unmatched CIs in the target are tagged with drift type Added.
- All remaining CIs that are compared by the ReconciliationIdentity attribute and any CIs fail, that CI is tagged as drift type Modified.
A Drift Report for the job is written to a AR System form that the Drift Console and Dashboard can display and query. Each drift can contain drift details showing the attributes of a CI that failed to meet the comparison criteria.
For all CIs with detected drift, the comparison service identifies all the business services that are affected by the drift as well.
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