NAME

       cf-promises - validate and analyze CFEngine policy code

SYNOPSIS

       cf-promises [OPTION]...  [FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       cf-promises  is  a  tool  for  checking CFEngine policy code. It operates by first parsing
       policy code checing for syntax errors.  Second,  it  validates  the  integrity  of  policy
       consisting  of  multiple  files.  Third,  it  checks  for  semantic  errors, e.g. specific
       attribute  set  rules.  Finally,  cf-promises  attempts  to  expose  errors  by  partially
       evaluating  the  policy,  resolving  as  many  variable  and classes promise statements as
       possible. At no point does cf-promises make any changes to the system.

OPTIONS

       --workdir, -w value
              Override    the    work    directory    for    testing     (same     as     setting
              CFENGINE_TEST_OVERRIDE_WORKDIR)

       --eval-functions, - value
              Evaluate  functions  during  syntax  checking  (may  catch  more  run-time errors).
              Possible values: 'yes', 'no'. Default is 'yes'

       --show-classes, -... value
              Show discovered classes, including those  defined  in  common  bundles  in  policy.
              Optionally can take a regular expression.

       --show-vars, - value
              Show  discovered  variables,  including  those  defined without dependency to user-
              defined classes in policy. Optionally can take a regular expression.

       --help, -h
              Print the help message

       --bundlesequence, -b value
              Use the specified bundlesequence for verification

       --debug, -d
              Enable debugging output

       --verbose, -v
              Output verbose information about the behaviour of cf-promises

       --log-level, -g value
              Specify how detailed logs should be. Possible values: 'error', 'warning', 'notice',
              'info', 'verbose', 'debug'

       --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. This option is overridden by
              FILE if supplied as argument.

       --define, -D value
              Define a list of comma separated classes to be defined at the start of execution

       --negate, -N value
              Define a list of comma separated classes to be undefined at the start of execution

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

       --diagnostic, -x
              Activate internal diagnostics (developers only)

       --policy-output-format, -p value
              Output the parsed policy. Possible values: 'none', 'cf', 'json' (this  file  only),
              'cf-full', 'json-full' (all parsed promises). Default is 'none'. (experimental)

       --syntax-description, -s value
              Output  a  document  describing the available syntax elements of CFEngine. Possible
              values: 'none', 'json'. Default is 'none'.

       --full-check, -c
              Ensure full policy integrity checks

       --warn, -W value
              Pass  comma-separated   <warnings>|all   to   enable   non-default   warnings,   or
              error=<warnings>|all

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

       --tag-release, -T value
              Tag   a    directory    with    promises.cf    with    cf_promises_validated    and
              cf_promises_release_id

       --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

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-promises 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 Northern.tech AS