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Ensure file content without specifying the content

Added by Alexandre BRIANCEAU over 6 years ago. Updated over 5 years ago.

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Description

A Generic Method or a Technique could check if the content of a file is not changing from a initial state that we could set manually. That permit to not know exactly the content of a file but simply ensure that the current file don't change after.

Simple scenario :
  1. Create a directive that monitor the content of a specific file, eg. /etc/hosts. By default, the content set is "blank" (but maybe we can copy/paste the content or pre-accept for the 1st run ?)
  2. Apply the directive to a node throug a rule
  3. The node show a non compliance for the directive
  4. We manually accept the change of state of the directive
Actions #1

Updated by Alexis Mousset over 6 years ago

  • Target version set to Ideas (not version specific)

This can be done today with the technique editor, using a separate file to hold a hash:

  • If a given (manually defined) reset condition is there, write the hash of the file into the hash file
  • (optionally, allows auto-acceptation of the first state of the file) If the hash file is not there, write the hash of the file into the hash file
  • Compare the hash of the file with the hash stored in the hash file with a command execution, which will report an error continuously if the file changed. To accept the new content, call a remote run through the API passing the reset condition defined in a remote run call, or locally with "rudder agent run -Dmy_reset_condition".
Actions #2

Updated by Nicolas CHARLES over 5 years ago

This is the Technique: "Monitor a file or directory content"

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