cf-know(8) - Linux man page

Name

cf-know - cfengine's knowledge agent

SYNOPSIS:

cf-know [options]

DESCRIPTION:

The knowledge management agent is capable of building and analysing a semantic knowledge network. It can configure a relational database to contain an ISO standard topic map and permit regular-expression based searching of the map. Analysis of the semantic network can be performed providing graphical output of the data, and cf-know can assemble and converge the reference manual for the current version of the Cfengine software. 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:

--help, -h

Print the help message

--build, -b

Build and store topic map in the CFDB

--debug, -d

Enable debugging output

--verbose, -v

Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent

--version, -V

Output the version of the software

--file, -f

Specify an alternative input file than the default

--inform, -I

Print basic information about changes made to the system, i.e. promises repaired

--lookup, -l

Print JSON output about a possibly qualified context::topic

--manual, -m

Generate reference manual from internal data

--manpage, -M

Generate reference manpage from internal data

--tell-me-about, -z

Look up stories for a given topic on the command line (use "any" to list possible)

--syntax, -S

Print a syntax summary of the optional keyword or this cfengine version

--topics, -T

Show all topic names in CFEngine

--test, -t

Generate test data

--removetest, -r

Remove test data

--updatetest, -u

Update test data

--xml, -x

Generate documentation in XML format

--output-file, -o

Output file for XML documentation

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 © 2008-2012 CFEngine AS.