PUPPET-INSPECT(8)						   Puppet manual						 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 http://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

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2011 Puppet Labs, LLC Licensed under the Apache 2.0 License

Puppet Labs, LLC						     June 2012							 PUPPET-INSPECT(8)