.TH cf-agent 8 "Maintenance Commands"
.SH NAME
cf-agent - cfengine's change agent

.SH SYNOPSIS:

 cf-agent [options]

.SH DESCRIPTION:

The main Cfengine agent is the instigator of change
in the system. In that sense it is the most important
part of the Cfengine suite.

.B cfengine
is a self-healing configuration and change management based system. You can think of 
.B cfengine
as a very high level language, much higher level than Perl or shell. Asingle statement is called a promise, and compliance can result in many hundreds of filesbeing created, or the permissions of many hundreds offiles being set. The idea of 
.B cfengine
is to create a one or more sets of configuration files which willclassify and describe the setup of every host in a network.
.SH COMMAND LINE OPTIONS:
.IP "--bootstrap, -B"
Bootstrap/repair a cfengine configuration from failsafe file in the WORKDIR else in current directory
.IP "--bundlesequence, -b"
Set or override bundlesequence from command line
.IP "--debug, -d"
Set debugging level 0,1,2
.IP "--define, -D"
Define a list of comma separated classes to be defined at the start of execution
.IP "--diagnostic, -x"
Do internal diagnostic (developers only) level in optional argument
.IP "--dry-run, -n"
All talk and no action mode - make no changes, only inform of promises not kept
.IP "--file, -f"
Specify an alternative input file than the default
.IP "--help, -h"
Print the help message
.IP "--inform, -I"
Print basic information about changes made to the system, i.e. promises repaired
.IP "--negate, -N"
Define a list of comma separated classes to be undefined at the start of execution
.IP "--no-lock, -K"
Ignore locking constraints during execution (ifelapsed/expireafter) if "too soon" to run
.IP "--policy-server, -s"
Define the server name or IP address of the a policy server (for use with bootstrap)
.IP "--verbose, -v"
Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent
.IP "--version, -V"
Output the version of the software
.SH AUTHOR
Mark Burgess and CFEngine AS
.SH INFORMATION

Bug reports: http://bug.cfengine.com, .PP
Community help: http://forum.cfengine.com
.PP
Community info: http://www.cfengine.com/pages/community
.PP
Support services: http://www.cfengine.com
.PP
This software is Copyright (C) 2008-2013 CFEngine AS.