Foreman Plugin to Access Foreman Audit

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I have a Foreman 1.9.0 system using postgres as the back end on RHEL 7.2.

A requirement has come up to be able to send the Foreman audit log to log
file for forwarding to a remote server.

I have been looking on the web and haven't been able to find out if this is
possible.

The ideal output solution would be XML but syslog message format would
suffice.

I could potentially create a plugin to do this and was wondering if this
has been done previously

and if it had could I be pointed to a repository where the code exists.

I am new to Ruby and anything existing would be a good starting point

There is none listed under Plugins on the Foreman website

Barry

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Hi Barry,

AFAIK there is no similar plugin existing.
A good starting point would be the plugin template [1] which shows several
samples of extension points for plugins.
You can take a look at [2] for an example of how you can extend existing
models - I'm guessing that a good approach would be to add an after_save
callback on the Audit model that sends the audit to wherever you need it.
Good luck!

[1] https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_plugin_template
[2]
https://github.com/theforeman/foreman_plugin_template/blob/master/lib/foreman_plugin_template/engine.rb#L62

··· On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:28 PM, barry wrote:

I have a Foreman 1.9.0 system using postgres as the back end on RHEL 7.2.

A requirement has come up to be able to send the Foreman audit log to log
file for forwarding to a remote server.

I have been looking on the web and haven’t been able to find out if this
is possible.

The ideal output solution would be XML but syslog message format would
suffice.

I could potentially create a plugin to do this and was wondering if this
has been done previously

and if it had could I be pointed to a repository where the code exists.

I am new to Ruby and anything existing would be a good starting point

There is none listed under Plugins on the Foreman website

Barry

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The foreman_audited_notifications plugin does something similar, but
outputs the audits to chat rooms.

You might find the source code at
https://github.com/frimik/foreman_audited_notifications useful if you're
planning to develop something new.

··· On 08/06/16 12:28, barry wrote: > I have a Foreman 1.9.0 system using postgres as the back end on RHEL 7.2. > > > A requirement has come up to be able to send the Foreman audit log to > log file for forwarding to a remote server. > > > I have been looking on the web and haven't been able to find out if this > is possible. > > The ideal output solution would be XML but syslog message format would > suffice. > > > I could potentially create a plugin to do this and was wondering if this > has been done previously > > and if it had could I be pointed to a repository where the code exists.

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