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
              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
              Specify an alternative input file than the default

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

       --select-class, -s
              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
              Pass options to a remote server process

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

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

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

       --timeout, -t
              Connection timeout, seconds

       --legacy-output, -l
              Use legacy output format

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

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

CFEngine                                           2016-04-18                                     CF-RUNAGENT(8)