sosdiff 0.4.0

Compare two sosreports and show the differences.

sosdiff

Compare two sosreport and show the differences.

• To compare them sosdiff reads the file sos_reports/sos.json and lists the differences:
  • [-] Plugin is missing on sosreport2.
  • [--] Entity is missing on sosreport2.
  • [---] File is missing on sosreport2.
  • [/] File content is different. Optionally show diff command output.
  • [+] Plugin is present on sosreport2 but it isn't on sosreport1.
  • [++] Entity is present on sosreport2 but it isn't on sosreport1.
  • [+++] File is present on sosreport2 but it isn't on sosreport1.
• Some files are automatically exluded to avoid "Too many levels of symbolic links" errors.
  • Refer to excluded_href
• Custom excluded files can be added to configuration file at ~/.sosdiff/configuration.yaml.

Installation

There are multiple ways to to install sosdiff.

• Using pip.

  pip install sosdiff
  

• Using the prebuild packages at Latest Release

Usage

usage: sosdiff [-h] [-c <config_file>] [-d] [-n SKIP_PLUGINS] [-o ONLY_PLUGINS] [-t] sospath1 sospath2

Compare two sosreports and show the differences.

positional arguments:
  sospath1              Path to first sosreport folder.
  sospath2              Path to second sosreport folder.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -c <config_file>, --configuration <config_file>
                        Configuration file. Defaults to `/home/pablofr/.sosdiff/configuration.ini`
  -d, --diff            Show `diff` when file content don't match.
  -n SKIP_PLUGINS, --skip-plugins SKIP_PLUGINS
                        disable these plugins. Can be used multiple times.
  -o ONLY_PLUGINS, --only-plugins ONLY_PLUGINS
                        enable these plugins only. Can be used multiple times.
  -t, --text            Print plain text without colors.