8. Managing Your System and Monitoring Performance : Comparing Configurations with Visual Configuration Differences Analyzer : Configuration Snapshot File
 
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Configuration Snapshot File
When you take a snapshot of the current configuration for the local installation, VCDA writes the following information to a text file:
Main Parameters: The value of II_SYSTEM, II_CLUSTER, II_CONFIG_LOCAL, II_NETBIOS_NAME, hostname, and username
All information included in the config.dat file, and in the additional config.dat files pointed to by II_CONFIG_LOCAL (if any)
All vnode information, except for password data
All Ingres system variables
All Ingres user variables
This snapshot can be compared to other snapshots as explained below.