1PACEMAKER(8) System Administration Utilities PACEMAKER(8)
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6 Pacemaker - Part of the Pacemaker cluster resource manager
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9 crm_diff original_xml operation [options]
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12 Compare two Pacemaker configurations (in XML format) to produce a cus‐
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16 Help Options:
17 -h, --help
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20 --help-all
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23 --help-xml
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26 --help-operation
27 Show operation options
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41 Compare the original XML to the contents of the named file
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43 -N, --new-string=STRING
44 Compare the original XML with the contents of the supplied
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48 Patch the original XML with the contents of the named file
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52 Compare/patch the inputs as a CIB (includes versions details)
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64 Increase debug output (may be specified multiple times)
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67 Obtain the two different configuration files by running cibadmin on the
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76 # crm_diff --original cib-old.xml --new cib-new.xml > patch.xml
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88 Written by Andrew Beekhof
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92Pacemaker 2.1.0-0.2.rc1.fc34 May 2021 PACEMAKER(8)