Cfengine

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Table of contents

1 Overview 1.1 Cfengine Guides 2 Some Recent talks mentioning cfengine 3 Examples 4 External links

Overview

Cfengine is a cluster configuration management tool that is currently in use by Manchester, Lancaster and Glasgow (http://www.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/Glasgow).

Some sample configurations will be uploaded once they've been sanitised.

Cfengine Guides

Some help on specific cfengine issues.

• Cfengine: Getting started
• Cfengine: Distributing configuration across the cluster
• Cfengine: Installing packages with cfengine
• Cfengine: Running scripts with cfengine

A bit more background on some things

• Cfengine: Classes

Some Recent talks mentioning cfengine

• Use of Cfengine for deploying LCG/gLite middleware. (http://indico.cern.ch/getFile.py/access?contribId=34&sessionId=21&resId=12&materialId=slides&confId=3738)

Examples

• Cfengine: Glasgow Worker Nodes
• Cfengine: Testing ssh connectivity to the CE
• Cfengine: Cleaning Out Scratch Space
• Cfengine: Installing Xrootd with cfengine

External links

• Host Roles, Executables, Configuration, Caveats, File Locations and Command Line Execution (http://www.cfengine.org/txt/terseguide.txt)
• Distributed Cfengine (http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/05/13/distributed_cfengine.html?page=1)
• Storing Cfengine configuration in CVS (http://sial.org/howto/cfengine/repository)
• Official docs (http://www.cfengine.org/documentation.phtml)
• cfengine style guide (http://www.pearcec.com/cfengine_styleguide.html)
• cfengine wiki (http://cfwiki.org/cfwiki/index.php/Main_Page)