README.md

Puppet-metche

Manage metche via Puppet

Overview

Metche is a system that monitors *nix servers configuration file for easy change tracking and team coordination.

Its most helpful feature is the automatic sending of change reports (changelog + packages + configuration diff)

Usage

Using default values

include 'metche'

Override values

class { 'metche':
  dopkg    => true,
  dodetail => true,
  email    => 'notifs@foobar.org',
}

Other class parameters

• changelog: Activate single changelog file monitoring (/root/Changelog)
• dopkg: Debian packages monitoring (yes)
• watchdir: Directory watched by metche (/etc)
• dodetail: Show diff details for modified files (no)
• test_time: Minutes until unstable goes to testing (120 min)
• stable_time: Days until testing goes to stable (3 days)
• email: Address receiving testing changes report (root)
• send_stable: Email $EMAIL_ADDRESS after saving a stable state (yes)
• excludes: Excludes files from metche reports (*.swp)

Contributors

• https://github.com/voxpupuli/puppet-metche/graphs/contributors

Release Notes

See CHANGELOG file.

Development

Feel free to contribute. I'm not a big fan of centralized services like GitHub but I used it to permit easy pull-requests, so show me that's a good idea!

Authors

This module got migrated from sbadia to Vox Pupuli