Security file comparison

Dear All,
Our security file crashed and we used the backup copy to recover it. The date of the backup copy shows it is the one on the prior day. Which I don't think there will be much defference, and we reviewed the log and can find no security changed during the day.
But our management team asks us to compare the two files and report the difference...
Do you have any good idea to compare the 2 files?

Well, your comparison is always going to be off, isn't it? One file is good, the other corrupt -- they have to be different, don't they?
I would be extra sure to have a backup of the .bak file before I did any of this as Essbase has a tendency to write a copy of Essbase.bak on start up and it would be a shame to overwrite your last good copy.
If the original file will still let you start Essbase up (usually this isn't the case, but you might get lucky), you can dump the contents of the Essbase.sec in three ways:
1) Start Essbase in a window, and issue the DUMP command -- that will write the information out to a text file.
2) I think you can do this from EAS, but for the life of me can't remember how -- right click on the security node and select export? I don't have EAS in front of me.
3) Use MaxL's export security_file command.
One other thing to consider -- if you use externalized to Shared Services security, most of your security is there, not in Essbase.sec, so you might want to think about comparing what was in Shared Services versus what is there today.
Regards,
Cameron Lackpour

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