Nodes with CFEngine Deployed

This is a list of nodes that have CFEngine deployed. 

[This list has not been well maintained over the years, though some updates have been done sporadically.  It should not be considered reliable.]

As deployed, for online nodes I have CFEngine running on onlam3.starp. I have a script cf-install.sh which is just the following 4 lines
#!/bin/bash
wget -N -P /root/ http://onlam3.starp.bnl.gov/cfengine-community-3.10.4-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
/bin/rpm -i /root/cfengine-community-3.10.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm
/var/cfengine/bin/cf-agent --bootstrap 130.199.60.153

NOTE: as of late 2020, onlam3 is no longer in service.  For these purposes, it has been replaced by onlcs.starp.bnl.gov (130.199.60.57)

Offline nodes use duvall.star. The script above will work if you correct the wget, and IP to point to duvall

NOTE: STAR is now using CFEngine-3.10.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm on Online & Offline nodes both SL6/RH6 & SL7/RH7. Do not attempt to install CFEngine-3.3.9-1.x86_64.rpm as the client will be unable to bootstrap to the policy hub.

This script will grab the CFEngine package, install it, and bootstrap it to the policy hub.
If you want to create a new policy you just create a .cf file in /var/cfengine/masterfiles on the policy hub, and then add it to the promises.cf file in the same directory. (Caution: A single typo, or incorrect syntax in ANY cf file will result in EVERY policy not applying. This is CFEngine's failsafe to prevent server crashes, or damage to production files) The logs for every system are kept in that system's /var/cfengine directory. The log filename is cf3.HOSTNAME.runlog Unfortunately the logs do not get centralized on the policy hub, although I suppose a policy can be created to copy them to a central location.

Policies currently run every 10 minutes. Some policies use wget to grab a file from the policy hub's web server, so they make an HTTP connection every five minutes. They don't appear to grab the file every time, unless the local file doesn't match the one on the server (last modified date). I'm going to work on a more elegant solution for this in the future, but for now it doesn't cause any harm, and the files are small, so it isn't using a lot of bandwidth.