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Chapter 6. Performing a SmartState Analysis

Red Hat CloudForms can analyze a cloud Instance or infrastructure host to collect metadata such as user accounts, applications, software patches, and other internal information. This key CloudForms feature is called SmartState Analysis. SmartState analysis can be initiated manually or automatically using Control Policies.

To manually initiate SmartState analysis on an instance:

  1. Navigate to Compute Clouds Instances.
  2. Click on an instance in the All Instances by Provider nsection.
  3. Click 1847 (Configuration), and then 1942 (Perform SmartState Analysis). A pop-up window will appear to confirm the action.
  4. Click OK. The SmartState analysis will be initiated for the selected instance.

To manually initiate SmartState analysis on an Infrastructure host:

  1. Navigate to Compute Infrastructure Providers.
  2. Select a node in the Nodes section.
  3. Click 1847 (Configuration), and then 1942 (Perform SmartState Analysis). A pop-up window will appear to confirm the action.
  4. Click OK. The SmartState analysis will be initiated for the selected node.
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