06-21-2010
Re: cfengine / puppet for rhel servers
I have a personal preference for cfengine over puppet, because its way more powerful although being the most versatile and scalable technology of this kind.
You can have an overview of Cfengine 3 here :
Managing configuration with Cfengine 3: concepts & theories Normation Blog
You should also register to their website: you'll find many resources there, including Cfengine (2, 3 and Nova) binary packages for Cfengine for almost every linux distro and unix flavor.
Regards,
Nico
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
cfenvgraph
cfengine(8) System Manager's Manual cfengine(8)
NAME
cfengine - network configuration engine
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/cfenvgraph [options]
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
--help
--file Override default input database
--erasehistory
Erase machine-learned history of named traces. Comma separated list (no spaces)
--outputdir
override name of output directory
--titles
Generate titles in output data files for traces
--timestamps
Add time stamps to output directory
--resolution
Maximum output resolution (default is smoothed over each hour).
--separate
Plot separate output files for each trace.
--no-error-bars
Do not add uncertainty margins to output.
--no-scaling
Do not renormalize graphs for convenient representation
--now Show data for last four hours only in high resolution.
--verbose
DESCRIPTION
cfengine is a language based system specifically designed for testing and configuring unix-like systems attached to a TCP/IP network.
Cfenvd is part of the anomaly detection subsystem for cfagent.
cfenvgraph is a research tool for extracting graphs of the learned history of system performance from the learned database. Users are
referred to the web page
http://www.cfengine.org/confdir/cfenvgraph.html
for an explanation of this graphical tool.
AUTHOR
Mark Burgess, Oslo University College
INFORMATION
http://www.cfengine.org
Maintenance Commands cfengine(8)