* Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> [2007-10-08 20:43]:
> On 10/8/07, Stephen Hahn <sch at sun.com> wrote:
> >
> >   Finally, svccfg export (and archive) output can be placed under SCM
> >   control and managed, just like the existing files.  Site practices can
> >   incorporate that capability immediately.
> 
> That's sort of what I do at the moment, saving svccfg archive. It would
> be nice to have something that could monitor our SMF repositories the
> way that RANCID monitors our network devices.
 
  (For list, see:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RANCID

  )

> (There are some annoyances with the svccfg archive output.
> Identical systems - or even the same system at different times -
> create different output, so you need to eyeball any differences
> to see if they're significant.)

  Let's improve archive (or introduce archive --strict) to not do that:  
  do you have some diffs of this kind that you could share?

  - Stephen

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