Forum: Cfengine Help Subject: What does --bootstrap do? Author: sauer Link to topic: https://cfengine.com/forum/read.php?3,21707,21707#msg-21707
I'm looking at the cf-agent output (in the community edition), and there's both --bootstrap and --policy-server options. The --help description doesn't give me a real solid grasp of what those options *actually* do, and I've had poor luck finding an explanation. I mean, I know what the word "bootstrap" means, and I see some examples (mostly Nova) saying to use them - but what do they actually *do*? My "new client" setup is a script that installs the cfengine package appropriate to the architecture. The script also put in place a basic failsafe.cf which has the information neccesary to download the "real" config from a policy server, and also has the trustkeys option set in the copy. I then just run cf-agent -IK three times; the first one trusts the key and gets the current config, and the second run uses the newly-downloaded config to bring teh config up to speed (there are things downloaded in the production config which aren't in the "initial" failsafe), and the third run is essentially the first "real" run with the final config in place. I'm hoping that a better understanding of what the --bootstrap and --policy-server options do can help me better assess if there's anything I can be doing to further simplify the install process. _______________________________________________ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine
