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