Re: Querying clients

[Steve Wray]

Tim Nelson wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Dec 2005, bern wrote:
>
> > 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
[snip]
>     Just in case you missed the point of cfengine, you define the 
> configuration on the server, but then each client machine downloads its 
> own copy, and it runs cfagent on the client machine.  For example, if 
> you want to know whether a file exists on the client, and then take 
> action based on that, you use the FileExists function.  The client 
> downloads the config before the FileExists function gets run.
>
>     So basically, I'm saying you probably don't need to get the system 
> state information back to the central location.  If you still think you 
> do, then give us an example problem, and see if we can think of a better 
> way to solve it :).

It is still useful to be able to collect data on the existing state of a 
machine and pass that back to the cfengine server. I can think of *lots* 
of reasons one might want to do this.

rsync may be a suitable option; you can have cfengine prompt an rsync of 
some directory or file on the client.



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