Appeasing the auditors – automatically opening an issue in ticketing system

Chef InSpec
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I’m working on getting buy-in from internal audit department on using Inspec to ensure systems are compliant.

The auditors are asking that when a server has a misconfiguration (say the web server is not running) to correct it, but I need to open a ticket in our ticketing system for tracking.

Does anyone have experience in doing this (our ticketing system can accept emails), or alternative approaches to appease the auditor?

What the auditors are looking for is history of changes, and then what we did for root cause analysis.

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If your ticketing system has a REST API (which it should) it should be fairly straightforward to do in a recipe using the Chef::HTTP class. We do this frequently to interface our Chef environment with a number of internal applications, our ticketing system included