cf-runagent(8) - Linux man page

Name

cf-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 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.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

--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

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.