Offline configuration editing and comparison

There are some situations where it makes sense to perform editing and/or compare the configuration of Gaia offline. One of the reasons for this is to ensure consistency of the organization-wide configuration parameters, such as Domain Name Server (DNS), Network Time Protocol (NTP), roles, and users. The other is a consistent definition of the clusters' topologies and routing settings.

You may, for instance, save the configuration of a single cluster member, download it, open it in the text editor, and perform a search and replace for the IPs of the interfaces and hostnames, replace host entries, save the file under a new cluster member's name, upload it to the new cluster member, and load the configuration.

Another case is the migration of a Gaia configuration to a new appliance with a different topology. For example, if you are moving to a more powerful appliance to handle the increased throughput using 10, 40, or 100 Gigabit...