Compare properties (lines) in configuration files
Problem:
One node is functioning smoothly, while another is experiencing issues, particularly following recent configuration changes or upgrades, along with additional modifications.
To diagnose the issue, you must compare a dozen configuration files, each containing numerous parameters spanning hundreds of lines.
It's a tedious and time-consuming task that you'd rather avoid, mainly because there could be various other factors causing the issue and several parties before you already rechecked configuration.
So, you may spend several hours of your time merely to verify that the issue doesn't stem from there, and there's still a possibility of overlooking a misconfiguration.
Solution:
BiWhy compares configuration just in seconds. And in this particular case found two critical differences (in 35 common configuration files, after filtering numerous backups and not relevant files like jsp, jks, in hundreds and hundreds lines, differences were only in 10 of them).
Actually, I was starring in the second typo (see screenshot) for couple minutes trying to figure out what is the difference. I was looking in URL, but typo was one digit in the port number.
Without BiWhy on a Linux machine, customers could have potentially spent days or rather weeks trying to diagnose the problem.
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