Forum: CFEngine Help Subject: Re: Chicken/egg Policy-server/client Author: debheller Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,24752,24756#msg-24756
Pete, when you bootstrap a client to the policy host, all the files in the policy host's /var/cfengine/masterfiles are transferred to the client. (I'm using Nova, but I believe the behavior is the same in the community version.) The classes defined by the host's environment, promises.cf, and other input files are all used to determine which promises are run. For example, I have FreeBSD, CentOS6 and Redhat5 clients. Classes are automatically set for these different environments. In addition, I set classes for specific classes of hosts and promises are written such that each environment runs specific promises on a group of similarly defined hosts - so promises that are meant for a host running FreeBSD are not used on a host running Redhat5. On the other hand, there may be commonality between OS's - perhaps something like /etc/motd - and that is put in place on all the hosts. In my configuration, regardless of what gets run on a client, ALL the files in /var/cfengine/masterfiles are copied to each client's /var/cfengine/inputs directory. HTH, deb Pete Ashdown Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm not finding detailed documentation on the > CFengine site in regards to > configuring both the policy-server and the client, > I am most likely missing > something, but the core question I have is if the > policy-server has the > same promises as the clients? In > http://www.cfengine.com/manuals/cf3-solutions.html > #Centralized-Management - > it has a config file but doesn't explain if you > use the same config file > for the clients as the policy-server? I see > statements in the config file > that relate to both, but I would imagine that the > policy-server doesn't > fetch its own policies from itself. > > Thanks in advance. > > > _______________________________________________ > Help-cfengine mailing list > Help-cfengine@cfengine.org > https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengin > e _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
