logwatch

Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Module Description - What the module does and why it is useful
3. Setup - The basics of getting started with logwatch ¦ * What logwatch affects ¦ * Setup requirements
4. Usage - Configuration options and additional functionality
5. Reference - An under-the-hood peek at what the module is doing and how
6. Limitations - OS compatibility, etc.
7. Development - Guide for contributing to the module
   • Contributing

Overview

The logwatch module configures logwatch on Linux bases systems.

Module Description

The logwatch module will manage the installation and configuration of logwatch on Linux based systems.

Setup

NOTE: You must have a proper MTA installed and configured to send mail externally.

Stdlib

This module requires puppetlabs-stdlib >= 3.2.0

What logwatch affects

• logwatch package.
• logwatch configuration files.

Usage

Using default values

  class { '::logwatch': }

Using available parameters

 class { '::logwatch':
   mail_to   => [ '[email protected] ', '[email protected]' ],
   mail_from => '[email protected]',
   service   => [ 'sshd', 'httpd' ],
 }

Managing ignore.conf

Add a regex to ignore.conf to suppress that output from the logwatch report

  logwatch::ignore { 'my_rule':
    regex => 'ignore_lines_that_match_this_regex',
  }

Reference

Classes

Public Classes

• logwatch: Main class, includes all other classes.
• logwatch::ignore: Manage the contents of ignore.conf

Private Classes

• logwatch::install: Handles the packages.
• logwatch::config: Handles the configuration file.

Parameters

logwatch

output
format
mail_to
mail_from
range
detail
service
package_ensure
package_name

logwatch::ignore

regex

Limitations

This module has been built on and tested against Puppet 3.

The module has been tested on:

• RedHat Enterprise Linux 6/7
• CentOS 6/7
• Ubuntu 12.04/14.04

Development

Contributing