puppet-inspect(8)

NAME

puppet-inspect - Send an inspection report

SYNOPSIS

Prepares and submits an inspection report to the puppet master.

USAGE

puppet inspect [--archive_files] [--archive_file_server]

DESCRIPTION

This command uses the cached catalog from the previous run of ´puppet agent´ to determine which attributes of which resources have been marked as auditable with the ´audit´ metaparameter. It then examines the current state of the system, writes the state of the specified resource attributes to a report, and submits the report to the puppet master.

Puppet inspect does not run as a daemon, and must be run manually or from cron.

OPTIONS

Any configuration setting which is valid in the configuration file is also a valid long argument, e.g. ´--server=master.domain.com´. See the configuration file documentation at https://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/latest/configuration.html for the full list of acceptable settings.

--archive_files: During an inspect run, whether to archive files whose contents are audited to a file bucket.

--archive_file_server: During an inspect run, the file bucket server to archive files to if archive_files is set. The default value is ´$server´.

AUTHOR

Puppet Labs