Auditing resources
Not every problem has a technical answer. I once had to diagnose a server that was failing to respond to `ping`, SSH, or console connections. I wasn't sure whether it was a hardware or a network failure.
The mystery was solved when I called the site where the machine was located. They informed me that two unidentified men had arrived earlier, gone straight to the server room, unplugged the machine, and simply walked out of the building with it. We later found that there had been a spate of computer thefts in the area with the same M.O.
The message here is that it's good to know who's doing what to your servers.
Dry-run mode, using the --noop switch, is a simple way to audit any changes to a machine under Puppet's control. However, ...
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