The promise agent is a validator and analysis tool for
configuration files belonging to any of the components
of Cfengine. Configurations that make changes must be
approved by this validator before being executed.
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:
--help, -h
Print the help message
--debug, -d
Set debugging level 0,1,2,3
--verbose, -v
Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent
--dry-run, -n
All talk and no action mode - make no changes, only inform of promises not kept
--version, -V
Output the version of the software
--file, -f
Specify an alternative input file than the default
--define, -D
Define a list of comma separated classes to be defined at the start of execution
--negate, -N
Define a list of comma separated classes to be undefined at the start of execution
--inform, -I
Print basic information about changes made to the system, i.e. promises repaired