func-inventory-notifier 0.2.3a10

Installation Notes

To begin with, read about func and especially func-inventory if you don’t yet know what they are.

Make sure you have func installed and working as you please.

Install func-inventory-notifier with:

pip install func-inventory-notifier

(or)

yum install func-inventory-notifier

Configure func-inventory notifier by editing /etc/func/func-inventory-notifier.conf

Take it for a spin by running /usr/bin/func-inventory-notifier

Further Usage Notes

It is particularly useful when scheduled to run regularly with cron. For instance, with a default installation of both func and func-inventory-notifier, a crontab entry like

0 * * * * /usr/bin/func-inventory-notifier &> /dev/null

will wake up on the hour, monitor func-inventory’s git repository, and if a change has happened, prepare and fire off an email to the root user.

We use it in conjunction with func’s filetracker module to log all of our configurations changes in /etc: think yum repo configurations, httpd, passwd and shadow.