Tim Nelson wrote:
On Fri, 8 Dec 2005, bern wrote:
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
[snip]
Just in case you missed the point of cfengine, you define the
configuration on the server, but then each client machine downloads its
own copy, and it runs cfagent on the client machine. For example, if
you want to know whether a file exists on the client, and then take
action based on that, you use the FileExists function. The client
downloads the config before the FileExists function gets run.
So basically, I'm saying you probably don't need to get the system
state information back to the central location. If you still think you
do, then give us an example problem, and see if we can think of a better
way to solve it :).
It is still useful to be able to collect data on the existing state of a
machine and pass that back to the cfengine server. I can think of *lots*
of reasons one might want to do this.
rsync may be a suitable option; you can have cfengine prompt an rsync of
some directory or file on the client.
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