Issue #7962 has been updated by Steven Lindberg.

Greetings, I've been working on this issue in my 
[fork](https://github.com/slindberg/puppet/commits/ticket/3.x/7962_cert_expire_warning/).
 I haven't created a pull request yet since all of the issues in the feature 
haven't been addressed.

I've implemented a method for logging a warning when certificates approach 
their expiration date, but currently it is only called in 
`Puppet::SSL::Host#certificate` when initializing the cert. This means (I 
believe) that the warning will only ever be displayed when starting puppet, so 
it is useless for daemons on machines with long uptimes. I've been looking into 
how the daemons work, and it doesn't seem like a big deal to add a host-related 
call to the agent or application, but the master is a different thing. As far 
as I can tell, puppet master only spawns a web server, and doesn't have an 
agent that can perform the check. It seems overkill to add an agent just for 
this purpose... It also seems pointless to add this feature if it can't inform 
the admin the the CA is going to expire (although warn on restart is better 
than nothing). Any guidance would be appreciated.

I haven't looked into reporting yet, but I'm hoping that 
`Puppet::SSL::Host#check_expiration` method can be used or slightly tweaked to 
accomodate. Thanks!

(PS I decided to target 3.x after reading the contributing readme, and I 
haven't tried to merge to see how difficult it would be to backport it.)
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Feature #7962: Warn when a certificate approaches the expiration date
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/7962#change-68453

Author: Jacob Helwig
Status: Accepted
Priority: High
Assignee: 
Category: Doh!
Target version: 2.7.x
Affected Puppet version: 
Keywords: 
Branch: 


It's especially troublesome if the CA or master certificate expires without any 
real warning.  We should be warning in the logs (possibly reports, too?) if any 
of the certificates (CA, master, agent) are approaching their expiration date.


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