Understanding Trust and security model in CFengine 3!

Hi Group, I spent more than 2 hours searching any relevant document/article to understand "CFengine Trust and security model". I have gone through couple of papers published by Prof. Mark Burgess et. al. in 2005.e.g. i. An approach to understanding policy based on autonomy and voluntary coopera

Cf-agent Fatal Error!

Hi Group, I am testing CFengine 3.2.3 on a Windows 7 (using Cygwin); all seem to be fine, even there's no complain from cf-promise but when I run cf-agent I get following error messages:   Unexpected argument with no preceding option: /var/cfengine-3.2.3/inputs/cftest.cf  Fatal cfengine error:

CFengine 3 Remote Communication!

Hi, Can anyone please help me to understand the "CFengine 3 Remote Communication" along with different scenarios as it is given for CFengine 2 on this link (https://cfengine.com/manuals/cf-manuals/cf2-remotecomm). Which of the manuals here ( https://cfengine.com/manuals/), would better repres

Finding Vulnerabilities and Configuring Systems with cfengine 3 (Article Request)!

Hi Group, Wondering is there any latest document/article related to CFengine 3, which could cover the issues as mentioned in the following Book Chapter: Book Title: Automating Linux and Unix System Administration Chapter Name: Configuring Systems with Cfengine (ByNate Campi &Kirk Bauer) Link: h

CFengine Client-Server connection sequence!

Hi, I am wondering is there any pictorial depiction i.e (schematic diagram) of the CFengine 'client-server connection sequence' (17 steps) as mentioned in the following link: http://cfengine.com/manuals/st-security.html#The-connection-sequence   Many Thanks for help. -Jan __

CFengine and Nagios Integration for Security Monitoring!

Hi Group, I wonder anyone has experience on integrating CFengine with Nagios(http://www.nagios.org/).I came across this blog post(http://www.sladder.org/?tag=cfengine); but it's not detailed enough to follow.  Considering a large scale network setup, a scenario can be if we want to generate s

Eclipse integration with cfengine - Anyone using cfeditor?

.  Can anyone share their experience of installing and using Cfeditor with Eclipse. Also any implementation use case of this will be a great help. Also, if I want to wrap CFengine (e.g. cfagent) instances in a Java based Web Service, how can I do that? Any clues on this as well.   With Regards -Jan

Integration of OVAL-based vulnerability descriptions with CFengine for vulnerability Assessments?

Hello Group, I am wondering has anyone of experience on translating Open Vulnerability Assessment Language (OVAL) vulnerability descriptions into CFengine policy rules? As CFengine offers a powerful distributed agent framework that if combined with the OVAL vulnerability language, can provide a

Cfengine 3 internal architecture and Dataflow!

Hello Group, I am almost new to switching from cfengine2 to 3 and reading through some of papers on Cfengine website, the manual pages etc. I have browsed through this link (http://cfengine.com/tech) & also this (http://watson-wilson.ca/2011/05/cfengine-3-cookbook-begins.html) of sites but co

Cfengine Orion Cloud Pack on Amazon EC2!

ther manual process? Regards -Jan Muhammad ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

CFEngine for provisioning server instances on Amazon Cloud (EC2)!

article--Examples for using Cfengine to do many of the day-to-day tasks involved in supporting services). Any thing like this (http://cfengine.com/files/OrionCloudPack.pdf), will be very helpful in deploying server instances on the Amazon EC2 infrastructure. Thanks in Advance! -Jan Muhammad

Configuring CFengine & Berkeley DB issue on Mac OS!

Hi Group, For my own needs/scenario, have to configure CFengine 2.2.10 (not using CF 3 version. ;( I have been trying to configure CFengine 2.2.10 on my MacBook Pro with OS version  10.6.6 (Snow-Leopard); Though I have downloaded 2 different versions of Berkeley DB i.e. DB-5.1.25 and bit o

Web-based Front end for CFengine

Hi All, I intend to connect/configure my CFengine server with an open source vulnerability scanner (Nessus) and Patch Monitoring tool (e.g. Pakiti). Is there any front-end tool or GUI available for CFengine? is the CfAmin (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1047564) still works with CFengine

Web-based Front end or GUI for CFengine?

Hi All, I intend to connect/configure CFengine with an open source vulnerability scanner (Nessus) and Patch Monitoring tool (e.g. Pakiti). Is there any front-end tool or GUI available for CFengine? I know about CfAmin (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1047564) but it seems to be bit out-d

Cfengine Server Web Interface/Client!

A" ; but google search doesn't brings any thing like this. Thanks in advance for help.   -Jan Muhammad ___ Help-cfengine mailing list Help-cfengine@cfengine.org https://cfengine.org/mailman/listinfo/help-cfengine

Re: Cfengine 2.2.10 download with Commandline wget!

0-03-08 12:32:19--  http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/cfengine/cfengine-2.2.10.tar.gz Resolving ftp.osuosl.org... 140.211.166.142, 140.211.166.134 Connecting to ftp.osuosl.org|140.211.166.142|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden 2010-03-08 12:32:19 ERROR 403: Forbidden. Cheers, -Jan

Cfengine 2.2.10 download with Commandline wget!

Hi, I'm trying to download 'Cfengine-2.2.10' via wget from http://www.cfengine.org/downloads/cfengine-2.2.8.tar.gz  and http://www.cfengine.org/tarballs/cfengine-2.2.10.tar.gz. But wget fails to download it. Is there any way to download this version via commandline option(wget or ftp), as I do

Cfengine and Xen Configuration!

Hi, I'm interested to configure/test CFengine on virtualized environment (Xen-based). I'm assuming that dom0 would manage its domU with Cfengine.  I wonder some one has any tutorial guide on that. Thanks in advance for help! -Ja