Reporting Architecture
The reporting architecture of CFEngine Enterprise uses two software components from the CFEngine Enterprise hub package.
cf-hub
Like all CFEngine components, cf-hub
is
located in /var/cfengine/bin
. It is a daemon process that runs in the
background, and is started by cf-agent
and from the init scripts.
cf-hub
wakes up every 5 minutes and connects to the cf-serverd
of
each host to download new data.
To collect reports from any host manually, run the following:
$ /var/cfengine/bin/cf-hub -H <host IP>
Add
-v
to run in verbose mode to diagnose connectivity issues and trace the data collected.Delta (differential) reporting, the default mode, collects data that has changed since the last collection. Rebase (full) reports collect everything. You can choose the full collection by adding
-q rebase
(for backwards comapatibility, also available as-q full
).
Apache
REST over HTTP is provided by the
Apache http server which also hosts the
Mission Portal. The httpd
process is started through CFEngine policy
and the init scripts and listens on ports 80 and 443 (HTTP and HTTP/S).
Apache is part of the CFEngine Enterprise installation in
/var/cfengine/httpd
. A local cfapache
user is created with
privileges to run cf-runagent
.