inspec/examples/profile/README.md

Example InSpec Profile

This example shows the implementation of an InSpec profile.

Verify a profile

InSpec ships with built-in features to verify a profile structure.

$ inspec check examples/profile
Summary
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Location: examples/profile
Profile: profile
Controls: 4
Timestamp: 2016-03-24T16:20:21+00:00
Valid: true

Errors
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Warnings
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Execute a profile

To run all supported controls on a local machine use inspec exec /path/to/profile.

$ inspec exec examples/profile
..

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Execute a specific control from a profile

To run one control from the profile use inspec exec /path/to/profile --controls name.

$ inspec exec examples/profile --controls tmp-1.0
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Finished in 0.0025 seconds (files took 0.12449 seconds to load)
1 examples, 0 failures