The run agent connects to a list of running instances of
the cf-serverd service. The agent allows a user to
forego the usual scheduling interval for the agent and
activate cf-agent on a remote host. Additionally, a user
can send additional classes to be defined on the remote
host. Two kinds of classes may be sent: classes to decide
on which hosts the agent will be started, and classes that
the user requests the agent should define on execution.
The latter type is regulated by cf-serverd's role based
access control.
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-class, -D
Define a list of comma separated classes to be sent to a remote agent
--select-class, -s
Define a list of comma separated classes to be used to select remote agents by constraint
--inform, -I
Print basic information about changes made to the system, i.e. promises repaired
--remote-options, -o
Pass options to a remote server process
--diagnostic, -x
Activate internal diagnostics (developers only)
--hail, -H
Hail the following comma-separated lists of hosts, overriding default list