Software to find differences between server configurations

Question

In order to troubleshoot a Java Web app that works in one server but not in a others, we are looking for software to find the software/registry/version differences between Windows 2003 servers. Does anyone knows of a free or commercial product that can help us do this?

Answer 1

In addition to testing the software/registry/version differences, would there be differences in your web app deployments? You can use tools like WinMerge (free) or Beyond Compare (quite good but not free) to see if your deployments are different.

Best of luck.

Answer 2

Also, it would be a good idea to compare JVM versions (what versions of the Java Runtime) are installed on the computers, as well as checking to see if the application server versions are different (Jboss, tomcat, websphere, etc...).