The snapshot functionality allows to detect any manual modifications that were made after a deployment via ARA. So you can reveal non-compliance of your environment, specifically your application servers.
What is a snapshot?
The function provides the following business values:
Environment Snapshots
An Environment Snapshot captures the state of an environment at a certain point in time for a specific application. It can capture any information for any component of the application for any target in so called Target Snapshots (e.g. application binaries, configuration files, registry keys, ...). Snapshot Reports allow you to browse the content of snapshots, or compare the snapshot to the actual environment and browse through the differences.
The following target snapshot reports are available:
What you can find in this section