In large orginizations, hosts can sometimes be retired without following procedures, etc, which leaves host objects in FreeIPA for hosts that no longer exist.
Is there anyway to see when a host last checked in with FreeIPA? One could then delete host objects which haven't connected in say 30/60/90 days.
Nothing? No ideas?
How do large organizations with 1000s of hosts handle this?
There is currently no way to know, but the Disable Stale Users proposal could be extended to any principal including the host ones. https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/blob/master/doc/designs/disable-stale-use... The timestamp precision would be coarse but that would clearly match the use-case.
François
On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 12:07 PM Master Blaster via FreeIPA-users freeipa-users@lists.fedorahosted.org wrote:
Nothing? No ideas?
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Thanks for the response, François.
I'm somewhat surprised there isn't a way to determine both host and user activity already.
For hosts, doesn't the Kerberos ticket have to be renewed on a regular basis? Couldn't that timestamp be used?
On ti, 10 joulu 2019, Master Blaster via FreeIPA-users wrote:
Thanks for the response, François.
I'm somewhat surprised there isn't a way to determine both host and user activity already.
For hosts, doesn't the Kerberos ticket have to be renewed on a regular basis? Couldn't that timestamp be used?
Yes. You still need to collect that information somehow. We do not update the time stamp right now at all by default because of a replication storm concerns. Once DSU feature is implemented, a coarse time stamp will updated for each principal.
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