12-21-2005
I think the degree of automatic supervision of platforms and processes is a key factor. I believe some people call this system management. If you have good and reliable automated system management practices in place, including automated backup and recovery, process and file system supervision, network and host based IDS, managing a large network can be easier. I recall, years ago, managing many hundreds of devices, including UNIX-based services, routers, etc., across a tiered approach of operators, first level support and secondary expert support for problems that cannot be solved by the rest of the team.
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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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