Configuration Validation in SAP Solution Manager enables you to determine whether the systems in your landscape are configured consistently and in accordance with your requirements. You can check the current configuration of a system in your landscape using a defined target state (target system) or compare it with an existing system.

Configuration Validation provides a reporting to understand how homogeneous the configuration of systems is. Using centrally stored configuration data in SAP Solution Manager to perform a configuration validation of a large number of systems using a sub set of the collected configuration data

Configuration Validation provides you the possibility to use a Reference System containing the base line for the validation which is perform against a number of comparison systems. As Reference System the data of a managed system could be used to compare the configuration data of one existing system with the configuration data of several other existing system. It's also possible to create a target system based on the collected configuration data of an existing system. The configuration data of such a target system could be edited to create a base line for validation independent of any current system setting.

In a target system it's possible to specify per config item a compliant rule. If the rule applies to the corresponding config item of a comparison system, the config item gets the status compliant in the reporting. Otherwise it gets the status non-compliant. To specify rules, you may use operators to specify the compliance rule the config item must follow to be compliant.

In SAP Solution Manager the rules are transparent by using operators. Operators comprise the rule set used for validation for a config item. Operators are available for all config store types (Property, Table, Text, and XML).

Figure: Example of Target Systems