cfengine tutorial

Edition 5.0 for version 1.5.3

• AUTOMATED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION
• Overview
  • What is cfengine and who can use it?
  • Site configuration
  • Key Concepts
    • Control files
    • Network interface
    • Network File System (NFS) or distribution?
    • Name servers (DNS)
    • Monitoring important files
    • Making links
  • Functionality
• Getting started
  • What you must have in a cfengine program
  • Program structure
  • Optional features in cfengine
  • Invoking cfengine
  • CFINPUTS environment variable
  • What to aim for
• More advanced concepts
  • Classes
  • Variable substitution
  • Defining classes and making exceptions
    • Command line classes
    • actionsequence classes
    • shellcommand classes
    • Feedback classes
    • Writing plugin modules
  • The generic class any
  • Debugging tips
  • Access control
  • Wildcards in directory names
  • File sweeps
  • Log files written by cfengine
  • Quoted strings
  • Regular expressions
  • Iterating over lists
• Designing a global system configuration
  • General considerations
  • Using netgroups
  • Files and links
  • Copying files
  • Managing processes
  • Cfengine's model for NFS-mounted filesystems
    • NFS filesystem resources
    • Unique filesystem mountpoints
    • How does it work?
    • Special variables
    • Example programs for mounting resources
  • Using the automounter
  • Editing Files
  • Disabling and the file repository
  • Running user scripts
  • Compressing old log files
  • Managing ACLs
• Using cfengine as a front end for cron
  • Structuring `cfengine.conf'
  • Splaying host times
  • Building flexible time classes
  • Choosing a scheduling interval
• Cfengine and network services
  • Cfengine network services
  • How it works
    • Remote file distribution
    • Remote execution of cfengine
    • cfrun
    • Spamming and security
    • Some points on the cfd protocol
    • Deadlocks and runaway loops
  • Configuring cfd
    • Installation of cfd
    • Configuration file `cfd.conf'
    • TCP wrappers
• Security and cfengine
  • Security hints
  • Checksum Databases
  • Who do you trust?
  • Firewalls
• Variable Index
• Concept Index
• FAQ Index

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