NAME

       cf-runagent - activate cf-agent on a remote host

SYNOPSIS

       cf-runagent [OPTION]...  [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       cf-runagent connects to a list of running instances of cf-serverd. It allows foregoing the
       usual cf-execd schedule to activate cf-agent. Additionally, a user may send classes to  be
       defined  on  the remote host. Two kinds of classes may be sent: classes to decide on which
       hosts cf-agent will be started, and classes that the user requests cf-agent should  define
       on execution. The latter type is regulated by cf-serverd's role based access control.

OPTIONS

       --help, -h
              Print the help message

       --background, -b value
              Parallelize connections (50 by default)

       --debug, -d
              Enable debugging output

       --verbose, -v
              Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent

       --dry-run, -n
              All talk and no action mode - make no changes, only inform of promises not kept

       --version, -V
              Output the version of the software

       --file, -f value
              Specify an alternative input file than the default

       --define-class, -D value
              Define a list of comma separated classes to be sent to a remote agent

       --select-class, -s value
              Define  a  list  of  comma  separated classes to be used to select remote agents by
              constraint

       --inform, -I
              Print basic information about changes made to the system, i.e. promises repaired

       --remote-options, -o value
              (deprecated)

       --diagnostic, -x
              (deprecated)

       --hail, -H value
              Hail the following comma-separated lists of hosts, overriding default list

       --interactive, -i
              Enable interactive mode for key trust

       --timeout, -t value
              Connection timeout, seconds

       --color, -C value
              Enable colorized output. Possible values: 'always', 'auto', 'never'. If  option  is
              used, the default value is 'auto'

       --timestamp, -l
              Log timestamps on each line of log output

       --log-modules, - value
              Enable  even  more detailed debug logging for specific areas of the implementation.
              Use together with '-d'. Use --log-modules=help for a list of available modules

       --remote-bundles, - value
              Bundles to execute on the remote agent

CFENGINE

       CFEngine provides automated configuration management of large-scale  computer  systems.  A
       system  administrator  describes the desired state of a system using CFEngine policy code.
       The program cf-agent reads policy code and attempts to bring the current system  state  to
       the  desired  state  described.  Policy  code  is downloaded by cf-agent from a cf-serverd
       daemon. The daemon cf-execd is responsible for running cf-agent periodically.
       Documentation for CFEngine is available at http://cfengine.com/documentation/.

PROMISE THEORY

       CFEngine is built on principles from promise theory, proposed by  Mark  Burgess  in  2004.
       Promise  theory  is a model of voluntary cooperation between individual, autonomous actors
       or agents who publish their intentions to one another in the form of promises.  A  promise
       is  a declaration of intent whose purpose is to increase the recipient's certainty about a
       claim of past, present or future behaviour. For  a  promise  to  increase  certainty,  the
       recipient  needs  to  trust  the promiser, but trust can also be built on the verification
       that previous promises have been kept, thus trust  plays  a  symbiotic  relationship  with
       promises.
       For an introduction to promise theory, please see http://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3294/

AVAILABILITY

       cf-runagent is part of CFEngine.
       Binary packages may be downloaded from http://cfengine.com/downloads/.
       The source code is available at http://github.com/cfengine/

BUGS

       Please see the public bug-tracker at http://bug.cfengine.com/.
       GitHub pull-requests may be submitted to http://github.com/cfengine/core/.

SEE ALSO

       cf-promises(8),  cf-agent(8),  cf-serverd(8), cf-execd(8), cf-monitord(8), cf-runagent(8),
       cf-key(8)

AUTHOR

       Mark Burgess and CFEngine AS