Using the snapshot tool

You can use the snapshot tool to take a copy of the computer system information, discovery events, and the server applications running at the time of the snapshot.

You can also use the snapshot tool to load information used in reconciliation processing, for example:

load a list of expected servers, also known as a reference list
load a list of excluded servers

You can use reports to query the information captured by the snapshot tool, for example:

which servers have been added or removed
the ratio of physical to virtual servers
which servers could not be fully discovered because an ssh session was not successfully established
the delta between the list of discovered servers and the list of expected servers

Restriction: Take snapshots after the discovery and topology agents finished their run. If you take a snapshot before the topology agents finish processing the discovered information, some snapshot reports, such as Snapshot Session Failed Report, might be incomplete.