cf-agent(8)cf-agent(8)NAMEcf-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.B 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 .B
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 WORKDIR else in current directory
--bundlesequence, -b
Set or override bundlesequence from command line
--debug, -d
Enable debugging output
--define, -D
Define a list of comma separated classes to be defined at the
start of execution
--diagnostic, -x
Do internal diagnostic (developers only) level in optional argu‐
ment
--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 (ife‐
lapsed/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: http://bug.cfengine.com, .pp Community help:
http://forum.cfengine.com Community info:
http://www.cfengine.com/pages/community Support services:
http://www.cfengine.com This software is Copyright (C) 2008-2013
CFEngine AS.
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