Cfengine

Overview

Cfengine is a cluster configuration management tool that is currently in use by Manchester, Lancaster and 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

User:Colin_morey mentioned cfengine in his networking and cfengine talks at the recent HEP Sysman conference, he hasn't yet managed to finish the accompanying notes, but the slides are available on application.

• Use of Cfengine for deploying LCG/gLite middleware.

Examples

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

External links

Main site cfengine style guide cfengine wiki