RE: Querying clients

[francois . vanderpoorte]

Hello,

        I did implemented such a thing here in my company.

        there's a set of rules, which are basically shellcommands. Each of them run at a specific time
        on specific cfengine classes and send it's output to a central host with mqseries
        (first implementation where done with scp but ssh-keys management was a problem)

        I decided to do this because when i started to implement cfengine, the systems configurations were
        completly differents, not documented and we were afraid to break our production.

        Benefit of this : now we have an almost-realtime (every 15mins) systems configuration document.

       

-----Original Message-----
From: bern [mailto:bfay@deepcosmos.ca]
Sent: Thursday 8 December 2005 15:59
To: help-cfengine@gnu.org
Subject: Querying clients

Hello all,

Is there a way to query clients from a cfengine server?   What I would
like to be able to do, is to query clients to know about specific
configurations of their systems.  For example, before I take any
actions on a client, I might like to know the content of a file before
trying to do modification to it.

I feel lile shooting in the dark when using cfengine without knowing
the exact state of a system.

Thanks,
Bern

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