NAME

       cf-promises - cfengine's promise analyzer

SYNOPSIS:

        cf-promises [options]

DESCRIPTION:

       The  promise  agent  is a validator and analysis tool for configuration files belonging to
       any of the components of Cfengine. Configurations that make changes must  be  approved  by
       this validator before being executed.  cfengine is a self-healing configuration and change
       management based system. You can think of cfengine as a very  high  level  language,  much
       higher level than Perl or shell. Asingle statement is called a promise, and compliance can
       result in many hundreds of filesbeing created, or the permissions of many hundreds offiles
       being  set.  The  idea  of cfengine is to create a one or more sets of configuration files
       which willclassify and describe the setup of every host in a network.

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS:

       --help, -h
              Print the help message

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

       --debug, -d
              Set debugging level 0,1,2,3

       --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
              Specify an alternative input file than the default

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

       --negate, -N
              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)

       --analysis, -a
              Perform additional analysis of configuration

       --reports, -r
              Generate reports about configuration and insert into CFDB

AUTHOR

       Mark Burgess and CFEngine AS

INFORMATION

       Bug reports: http://bug.cfengine.com, .PP Community help: http://forum.cfengine.com

       Community info: http://www.cfengine.com/pages/community

       Support services: http://www.cfengine.com

       This software is Copyright (C) 2008-2013 CFEngine AS.

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