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cfengine / puppet for rhel servers

Hello all,
I am planning to deploy a configuration / auditing software package for about 100 new nodes that we are planning to install. I am hearing many good things in regards to cfengine and puppet. Can someone shed some light in regards to these solutions?

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cf-monitord

cf-monitord(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    cf-monitord(8)

NAME

       cf-monitord - cfengine's monitoring agent

SYNOPSIS
:
	cf-monitord [options]

DESCRIPTION
:
       The  monitoring	agent is a machine-learning, sampling daemon which learns the normal state of the current host and classifies new observa-
       tions in terms of the patterns formed by previous ones. The data are made available to and read by cf-agent for classification of responses
       to anomalous states.  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 configu-
       ration files which willclassify and describe the setup of every host in a network.

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
:
       --help, -h
	      Print the help message

       --debug, -d
	      Set debugging level 0,1,2,3

       --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

       --no-lock, -K
	      Ignore system lock

       --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

       --diagnostic, -x
	      Activate internal diagnostics (developers only)

       --no-fork, -F
	      Run process in foreground, not as a daemon

       --histograms, -H
	      Ignored for backward compatibility

       --tcpdump, -T
	      Interface with tcpdump if available to collect data about network

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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