cf-agent(8)
NAME
cf-agent - cfengine's change agent
SYNOPSIS:
cf-agent [options]
DESCRIPTION:
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
- --version, -V
- Output the version of the software
AUTHOR
Mark Burgess and Cfengine AS
INFORMATION
Bug reports: bug-cfengine@cfengine.org
Community help: help-cfengine@cfengine.org
Community info: http://www.cfengine.org
Support services: http://www.cfengine.com
- This software is Copyright (C) 2008- Cfengine AS.