This is a cross-platform, pluggable tool for comparing the configuration of a machine with a known configuration stored in text files in a source control system.
It currently supports comparison of the following types of configuration data:
http://packages.python.org/checker/
http://groups.google.com/group/simplistix
https://secure.simplistix.co.uk/support
https://secure.simplistix.co.uk/svn/Simplistix/checker/
http://packages.python.org/checker/changes.html
This software is available from the python package index