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

NAME

       cf-agent - cfengine's change agent

SYNOPSIS
:
	cf-agent [options]

DESCRIPTION
:
       The main Cfengine agent is the instigator of change in the system. In that sense it is the most important part of the Cfengine suite.

       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
:
       --bootstrap, -B
	      Bootstrap/repair a cfengine configuration from failsafe file in the WORKDIR else in current directory

       --bundlesequence, -b
	      Set or override bundlesequence from command line

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

       --define, -D
	      Define a list of comma separated classes to be defined at the start of execution

       --diagnostic, -x
	      Do internal diagnostic (developers only) level in optional argument

       --dry-run, -n
	      All talk and no action mode - make no changes, only inform of promises not kept

       --file, -f
	      Specify an alternative input file than the default

       --help, -h
	      Print the help message

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

       --negate, -N
	      Define a list of comma separated classes to be undefined at the start of execution

       --no-lock, -K
	      Ignore locking constraints during execution (ifelapsed/expireafter) if "too soon" to run

       --policy-server, -s
	      Define the server name or IP address of the a policy server (for use with bootstrap)

       --verbose, -v
	      Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent

       --version, -V
	      Output the version of the software

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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