FreeNAS Change LOG / Admin Journal

[tomekadascientiam]

It would be pretty as pink to be able to keep tack of the changes I make on my FreeNAS.

I would love to be able to mark a journal entry as to why I made a specific change.

It would be even better if FreeNAS also kept a log table in the sqlite3 data base of all the changes it sees. That way I would have an audit trail for FreeNAS Mini Minions.

I can not always trust my sisters to tell me the truth when about what has been done to my mini. For that matter after a couple of weeks I can forget the changes I have made as well. I try to keep track of them in my Journal and why I did them, but some times I forget to make an entry for the given change.

Here is where I got the idea for this.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/422951/keeping-a-log-table-in-sqlite-database

https://github.com/simon-weber/Instant-SQLite-Audit-Trail

 

[cyberjock]

You know what I do? I actually keep a physical binder of what I do. I write everything down. Every hardware upgrade, every software update, every software change, every problem you encounter, etc. It was something I learned in the military(every command I was at had a strict policy of updating software/hardware in a book) and it really does come in handy.

 

[pirateghost]

Astaro/Sophos has this feature and I love it. It logs all changes, what IP address made the change, time and date.

Add to that, my astaro/Sophos install also emails me daily reports and weekly config file backups. Ix should look into adding these features. I will submit feature requests later for these if nobody else has.

 

[tomekadascientiam]

I just filed Feature #3295 FreeNAS Change LOG / Admin Journal