There is no kind of protection against Google on the site - that's crazy. If you have trouble finding what you want, then please tell us what in a private email so we can improve it.
There are films, videos and a document on the product page for Nova. If you want to evaluate with a trial version, you have to contact cfengine.com. This is not something the community list can help with. You should start by saying where you are located and what company you work for so that someone in your area can get in touch. M Les Mikesell wrote: > Mark Burgess wrote: >> >>>> You can build source on Windows with the Community Edition and cygwin >>>> libraries, or you >>>> can purchase a license running Cfengine Nova with extended (native >>>> running) Windows >>>> functions like registry management and services support. >>>> >>> Thanks - is there a way to evaluate the additional functionality of the >>> Nova version before purchase? Also, is there a way to schedule changes >>> across a set of machines such that they happen within a small time >>> window but sequentially, stopping if any failures occur. >> >> Of course, and of course ;-) Contact cont...@cfengine.com to discuss >> Nova. >> See the Short Topics guides on cfengine.com Technical Corner to see >> introduction to >> distributed scheduling. > > I'm having some trouble finding my way around the cfengine.com site. Is > there some reason it doesn't have a search of its own and isn't exposed > to google? In particular, I want to understand how its internal > abstractions match up with our processes to decide if it would be a > useful tool for us. Is there a more 'task oriented' view of how > something like an application upgrade would be controlled though steps > where a developer might commit a new version of an application with a > new configuration option that has to be set on certain hosts, a QA > person might deploy this new build and fine-tune the settings, then an > operations person would schedule deployment across a farm of servers, > usually in a way that does not change all of them at once and with the > ability to revert to the previous version and configuration if problems > appear. Do all of the people in these roles have to understand the full > scope of the cfengine language (or worse, defer to someone who does), or > can the developer who makes the config file changes supply a module to > edit it that stays tied to the application versioning and can the > operations scheduler control the production machines just knowing about > the version numbers that have passed QA? If the operation people have > to learn a programming language it isn't going to be a good fit - or if > developers can affect more than their own app. > -- Mark Burgess ------------------------------------------------- Professor of Network and System Administration Oslo University College, Norway Personal Web: http://www.iu.hio.no/~mark Office Telf : +47 22453272 ------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
