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

.SH SYNOPSIS:

 cf-report [options]

.SH DESCRIPTION:

The reporting agent is a merger between the older
cfengine programs cfshow and cfenvgraph. It outputs
data stored in cfengine's embedded databases in human
readable form.
.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 "--help, -h"
Print the help message
.IP "--class-regex, -c"
Specify a class regular expression to search for
.IP "--csv, -C"
Enable CSV output mode in hub queries
.IP "--debug, -d"
Set debugging level 0,1,2,3
.IP "--verbose, -v"
Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent
.IP "--inform, -I"
Output information about actions performed by the agent
.IP "--version, -V"
Output the version of the software
.IP "--no-lock, -K"
Ignore ifelapsed locks
.IP "--file, -f"
Specify an alternative input file than the default
.IP "--hostkey, -k"
Specify a hostkey to lookup
.IP "--html, -H"
Print output in HTML
.IP "--xml, -X"
Print output in XML
.IP "--version, -V"
Print version string for software
.IP "--purge, -P"
Purge data about peers not seen beyond the threshold horizon for assumed-dead
.IP "--erasehistory, -E"
Erase historical data from the cf-monitord monitoring database
.IP "--nova-export, -x"
Export Nova reports to file - delta or full report
.IP "--nova-import, -i"
Import Nova reports from file - specify the path (only on Nova policy hub)
.IP "--outputdir, -o"
Set output directory for printing graph data
.IP "--promise-handle, -p"
Specify a promise-handle to look up
.IP "--query-hub, -q"
Query hub database interactively with optional regex search string
.IP "--titles, -t"
Add title data to generated graph files
.IP "--timestamps, -T"
Add a time stamp to directory name for graph file data
.IP "--resolution, -R"
Print graph data in high resolution
.IP "--show, -1"
Show data matching named criteria (software,variables,classes)
.IP "--syntax, -S"
Print a syntax summary for this cfengine version
.IP "--syntax-export, -s"
Export a syntax tree in Javascript format
.IP "--no-error-bars, -e"
Do not add error bars to the printed graphs
.IP "--no-scaling, -n"
Do not automatically scale the axes
.IP "--verbose, -v"
Generate verbose output
.IP "--remove-hosts, -r"
Remove comma separated list of key hash entries from the hosts-seen database
.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.