On Friday, June 21, 2013 7:03:03 AM UTC-5, Rabin Dahal wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Is there anyway to track a changed file at client end and notify the admin 
> via email.
>
>
The Puppet agent will always notice when a managed property of a managed 
file differs from its target value.  Unless you are running in --noop mode, 
it will change that property to the target value.  It is possible to 
trigger the agent to run an arbitrary command when that happens.  For 
example:

file { '/etc/foo.conf':
  user => 'root',
  group => 'root',
  mode => '0644',
  content => 'foodir = /opt/foo'
}

exec { 'foo-conf-changed':
  command => '<any command here>',
  subscribe => File['/etc/foo.conf'],
  refreshonly => true
}

The triggered command could send e-mail, if you wish.

You can also configure the agent to log changes to either managed or 
unmanaged properties of a managed resource via the 'audit' metaparameter 
(http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/3.2.latest/metaparameter.html#audit), 
but this does not directly allow you to trigger other actions.


John

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