Forum: Cfengine Help (Mailing list) Subject: Re: Generating Host Profiles Using CFengine3 Author: eystein Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,7837,7840#msg-7840
Hi again, I see what you are looking for, but I think you might underestimate the complexity of doing this, at least generically. Cfengine would need to distinguish the relevant information from the irrelevant when building these templates in order to avoid the need for a complete clone of the hard drive. Now remember that FreeBSD works differently than Linux which again works differently than Windows. Furthermore, relevant things change from version to version of the operating systems. People would also define relevance differently - some people care about installed software, others about interface configuration, etc. Therefore, I think creating these baseline templates automatically would require a lot of domain knowledge, and is thus not supported out-of-the-box by Cfengine. If you still would like to pursue the idea, perhaps the packages-promises is the right place to start. Assuming all software is installed though FreeBSD packages, you can use a commands-promise to dump pkg_info to a file, then read the file as a list in Cfengine, and then use a packages-promise with policy "add" to make sure all this software is installed. This assumes that you have the necessary packages available.. otherwise you would need a list of all files included in all packages, and do binary copies from the "master", where things starts to get messy... I don't know FreeBSD too well, but there is a list of installed package files in /etc somewhere I think... In short, don't expect this to be very easy.. The best would of course be to get the specifications by other means than a configured machine, but I guess you have already thought of that. :) --- Regards, Eystein _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
