Do you use Audit attribute or "puppet inspect" ?

[Jo Rhett]

I have numerous clients using the audit attribute to track changes to files not managed by Puppet. This provides tripwire-like functionality for observing changes to files not directly managed by Puppet. It also allows for backing up each version of the file to the file bucket. 

Therefore I was a bit shocked to find that they planned to drop support for this entirely, as per https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-893

If you make use of audit or “puppet inspect”, or would like to use the functionality provided for tripwire-like tracking of resource changes, please add your comments to this issue.

If you have been unable to get “puppet inspect” working with recent Puppet 3 or Puppet 4 versions, you may want to track https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-5233

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[Trevor Vaughan]

Honestly, I don't know of anyone using the audit functionality. However, I have only really dealt with Operating Systems that have excellent real-time Audit subsystems built in.

Also, using Puppet to audit large recursive directories is quite slow and will bloat your catalog to no end.

Thanks,

Trevor

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[Mike Skint]

Jo, 
we use the audit functionality extensively,  I've added my comment to PUP-893 and we are an enterprise customer.

On Monday, September 14, 2015 at 2:01:33 AM UTC-7, Jo wrote:

I have numerous clients using the audit attribute to track changes to files not managed by Puppet. This provides tripwire-like functionality for observing changes to files not directly managed by Puppet. It also allows for backing up each version of the file to the file bucket. 

Therefore I was a bit shocked to find that they planned to drop support for this entirely, as per3 https://tickets.puppetlabs.com/browse/PUP-89