06-19-2010
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?
Thanks,
jaysunn
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cf-promises
cf-promises(8) System Manager's Manual cf-promises(8)
NAME
cf-promises - cfengine's promise analyzer
SYNOPSIS
:
cf-promises [options]
DESCRIPTION
:
The promise agent is a validator and analysis tool for configuration files belonging to any of the components of Cfengine. Configurations
that make changes must be approved by this validator before being executed. 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 configuration files which willclassify and describe the setup of every host in a network.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
:
--help, -h
Print the help message
--bundlesequence, -b
Use the specified bundlesequence for verification
--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
--file, -f
Specify an alternative input file than the default
--define, -D
Define a list of comma separated classes to be defined at the start of execution
--negate, -N
Define a list of comma separated classes to be undefined at the start of execution
--inform, -I
Print basic information about changes made to the system, i.e. promises repaired
--diagnostic, -x
Activate internal diagnostics (developers only)
--analysis, -a
Perform additional analysis of configuration
--reports, -r
Generate reports about configuration and insert into CFDB
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.
Maintenance Commands cf-promises(8)