Use XIA Configuration to compare the current configuration of your servers and devices with previous configurations to see changes, or to compare different servers and devices to see differences.

Baselines allow you to compare configuration to a "golden build" so you can determine when a server, device or any other item does not adhere to your organization's configuration policy.

Use the item comparison feature to:

• Detect software installed on Windows Machines
• Detect services added or removed from a Windows server
• Detect unauthorized changes to an Active Directory schema
• Detect databases added to a SQL instance
• Detect changes to the code of a stored procedure

Watch our configuration comparison tool in action

The following video demonstrates the item comparison feature. Firstly, security settings are changed on a server that has previously been scanned. The server is then scanned again and the latest version is compared with the previous version.

To see an overview video, visit the XIA Configuration product page. To see all the tutorials, visit our tutorials page.

Compare Items

The compare feature is available for all items in XIA Configuration.

The results of the comparison are displayed in the web interface.

Export to PDF

The results of the comparison can be exported to PDF. Click the image below to see an example.

  Open Sample Report

Export to XML

The results can also be exported to XML and viewed and analysed in Microsoft Excel: