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Have a functionality at the WEBTOOL level allowing the Target Administrator to simulate the deployment of the latest version of an referenced image in the WEBTOOL and to have the simulation result with the exact list of the volumes that will be deployed during the real Target refresh operation
be able to control what the WEBTOOL will perform before its action in order to anticipate/check the list of refreshed volumes and possibly perform some volume backups if necessary and thus not to discover that a posteriori once the volumes are overwritten. This is to avoid losing hard-to-reconstruct User data. This is applicable to a possible malfunction of the WEBTOOL and also in the case of the upgrade of a Target shifted from several versions for different reasons, the administrator has potentially forgotten all the impacts of intermediate versions.