Baseline exception reporting

Baseline records are separate from the configuration item (CI) records they manage. If any baseline attribute differs from the attribute in the authorized state of a CI using this baseline, an exception occurs. However, you may authorize an exception to the baseline, rather than create a new baseline. For example, you might have a baseline requiring that all application servers have 8 GB of RAM, but you have one application server, the Web server, that needs to have 16 GB of RAM. The baseline exception reporting will report this instance within your baseline.