Re: [Cfengine] Method to assure that action was taken

[Bas van der Vlies]

Chris Kacoroski wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are certain actions that I need to be sure get taken when cfengine 
> runs (such as resetting the root password).  Since I have several 
> hundred laptop clients who are on and off the network, I would like to 
> have a method where cfengine tells me that it has completed an action on 
> a client (e.g. update a central database or ???).  Has anyone else run 
> into this problem and solved it?

There are several ways to achieve this. I have the following setup. I 
introduced an kind of change_management setup:
 - The client boots and execute always cfagent -DCHANGE
 - this reads change_management.cf. In this file i do all kind of
   checks, eg:
     - Do have all the software packages
     - Is the password file updated
     - ...
 - For every change i have an different config file. So i can easily
   remove the change configs

                Regards