A snapshot is an image of the security configuration at a specific date and time. A snapshot consists of:
All securable objects: roles, duties, privileges, and entry points, with the related license type and access level.
The associations between the securable objects: user-role, role-duty, role-privilege, duty-privilege, and privilege-entry point.
The snapshot functionality is introduced to improve the performance of several Security and Compliance Studio features.
The latest snapshot is the security configuration that, for example, is used to:
Explore the security configuration.
Match roles.
Refresh the new license type information.
Create and edit roles with the Security role wizard.
You can also compare snapshots to review the changes made between two snapshot versions.
As snapshots can consist of a lot of data. Keeping many snapshots can slow performance. To avoid this, you can set up automatic clean-up of snapshots. As a result, older snapshots are deleted according to defined rules.