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+.. -*- mode: rst -*-
+
+.. _client-tools-index:
+
+Available client tools
+======================
+
+Client tool drivers allow Bcfg2 to execute configuration operations
+by interfacing with platform and distribution specific tools.
+
+Tool drivers handle any reconfiguration or verification operation. 
+So far we have tools that primarily deal with packaging systems 
+and service management. The POSIX tool also handles file system 
+and permissions/groups operations. To write your own tool driver, 
+to handle a new packaging format, or new service architecture see 
+:ref:`development-client-driver`.
+
+When the Bcfg2 client is run, it attempts to instantiate each of 
+these drivers. The succeeding list of drivers are printed as a 
+debug message after this process has completed. Drivers can 
+supercede one another, for example, the Yum driver conflicts (and 
+unloads) the RPM driver. This behavior can be overridden by running 
+the Bcfg2 client with the ``-D`` flag. This flag takes a colon 
+delimited list of drivers to use on the system.
+
+Currently these are the tool drivers that are distributed with Bcfg2:
+
+.. toctree::
+   :maxdepth: 1
+   :glob:
+
+   *