Administration Data Comparison report

You can use Administration Data Comparison reports to: Troubleshoot differences in business logic behavior by reviewing configuration differences between two environments. Determine whether a new environment is configured the same as a reference environment. Prepare for site consolidation by comparing environments to see what is common and what is different. Identify differences between a customer environment and an out-of-the-box Teamcenter environment. Compare a baseline export of an environment to a later export of the same environment. Generate an Administration Data Comparison report To make the comparison, the utility requires an administration data export package from one environment as a source, and either the local environment or another administration data export package as a target. The report highlights differences between the source data and the target data. Play the following video to see an example of steps involved in generating a comparison report. The example illustrates comparing a current production environment and an out-of-the-box Teamcenter environment. If an object is referenced by other objects, the report includes a where-used table that indicates the categories and objects that have references to a selected object in both source and target environments. The report summary page shows all the administration data types included in the comparison and the number of differences for each element present within the category. The report includes a glossary of administration data categories and the elements available in each of the categories. Use the generate_admin_data_compare_report utility to generate a report comparing a source environment administration data export package file to either: The current environment Another administration data export package file. View an Administration Data Comparison report To view a generated report, browse to the output location and open the index.html file. The following image shows the summary page of an example comparison report. Differences are highlighted in yellow. In a real report, you can click links to navigate through the report to find summaries and details of administration data. Example As you navigate to details of the report, you can easily identify even very small differences. Permission difference in Access Manager. Label difference in a Style Sheet. Related Topics Using the administration data comparison report