I am fairly new to cfengine, I did some searching of the mailing list
and wiki and didn't find anything quite like what I'm wanting to do.
I am trying to build a solution, using cfengine as the framework, for
auditing host configurations and then based on the results of the audit,
bring the host into compliance with the policy. The second part is
easy. But I'm a little lost on the first part. I'm not quite sure
the best approach to take with reporting, and then taking the data
from each system and rolling that into a report. For instance I
would like to know what version of script x is running on our hosts,
but I don't want to have to look at the output
of each host individually I would like to gather the information from
each host and roll that into a report. My specific question to you
is, what is the best way of getting this information back to the
"master" host. At first I thought of having a section that would
create a temporary report file that can be written to by all the
different checks that have to be done, and then
having the "master" host copy this report file from the "run" host
and then roll the reports that way, but then the problem is, the
master host doesn't necessarily know what the temporary file's name
is. Another option that could work, is using syslog to collect the
data, but I'd rather stay away from that if I can.
I'm sure I've been about as clear as mud, so feel free to bash me and
request more information.
Thanks in advance,
Michael Grubb
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