The Bcfg2 Server

The Bcfg2 server is responsible for taking a comprehensive infrastructure description and turning it into a series of configuration specifications for particular clients. It also manages probed data and tracks statistics for clients.

The Bcfg2 server takes information from two sources when generating client configuration specifications. The first is a pool of metadata that describes clients as members of an aspect-based classing system. That is, clients are defined in terms of aspects of their behavior. The other is a file system repository that contains mappings from metadata to literal configuration. These are combined to form the literal configuration specifications for clients.

• Plugins
  • Enabling Plugins
  • Default Plugins
  • Plugin Roles (in 1.0)
• Admin
  • backup
  • client
  • compare
  • init
  • minestruct
  • perf
  • pull
  • viz
  • xcmd
• Configuration Entries
  • Bound Entries
  • altsrc
• info.xml
• Using bcfg2-info
  • Getting Started
  • Debugging Configuration Rules
  • Debugging and Developing Bcfg2
• SELinux
  • Running Bcfg2 under SELinux
  • Managing SELinux Entries
• Server Configuration
  • Running as a non-root user
  • Server Backends
• Global Database Settings
  • Separate Reporting Database
  • Configuration Options
  • Database Schema Sync
• Server-side Caching
  • Metadata Caching
• Bcfg2 Data Encryption
  • bcfg2-crypt
  • Configuring Encryption
  • Encryption API
• Common XML Features
  • Group and Client tags
  • Genshi templating
  • Encryption
  • XInclude
  • Feature Matrix
• Access Control