cf-runagent(8)cf-runagent(8)NAMEcf-runagent - Run agent
SYNOPSIS:cf-runagent [options]
DESCRIPTION:
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 inter‐
val 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 con‐
figuration 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 hun‐
dreds 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:--help, -h
Print the help message
--background, -b
Parallelize connections (50 by default)
--debug, -d
Enable debugging output
--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
--interactive, -i
Enable interactive mode for key trust
--query, -q
Query a server for a knowledge menu
--timeout, -t
Connection timeout, seconds
AUTHOR
Mark Burgess and CFEngine AS
INFORMATION
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CFEngine AS.
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