RE: Querying clients

[Martin, Jason H]

The best you can do is have the clients execute a shell command that
outputs the data you want, then inspecting the output of the
shellcommand. CFE doesn't have a built-in way to query data about the
clients.

-Jason Martin

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> Subject: Querying clients
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> 
> Hello all,
> 
> Is there a way to query clients from a cfengine server?   What I would
> like to be able to do, is to query clients to know about 
> specific configurations of their systems.  For example, 
> before I take any actions on a client, I might like to know 
> the content of a file before trying to do modification to it.
> 
> I feel lile shooting in the dark when using cfengine without 
> knowing the exact state of a system.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bern
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