The main Cfengine agent is the instigator of change
in the system. In that sense it is the most important
part of the Cfengine suite.
cfengine
is a self-healing configuration and change management based system. You can think of
cfengine
as a very high level language, much higher level than Perl or shell. Asingle statement is called a promise, and compliance can result in many hundreds of filesbeing created, or the permissions of many hundreds offiles being set. The idea of
cfengine
is to create a one or more sets of configuration files which willclassify and describe the setup of every host in a network.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS:
--bootstrap, -B
Bootstrap/repair a cfengine configuration from failsafe file in the current directory
--bundlesequence, -b
Set or override bundlesequence from command line
--debug, -d
Set debugging level 0,1,2
--define, -D
Define a list of comma separated classes to be defined at the start of execution
--diagnostic, -x
Activate internal diagnostics (developers only)
--dry-run, -n
All talk and no action mode - make no changes, only inform of promises not kept
--file, -f
Specify an alternative input file than the default
--help, -h
Print the help message
--inform, -I
Print basic information about changes made to the system, i.e. promises repaired
--negate, -N
Define a list of comma separated classes to be undefined at the start of execution
--no-lock, -K
Ignore locking constraints during execution (ifelapsed/expireafter) if "too soon" to run
--policy-server, -s
Define the server name or IP address of the a policy server (for use with bootstrap)
--verbose, -v
Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent