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bcfg2.conf(5) -- configuration parameters for Bcfg2
===================================================
## DESCRIPTION
`bcfg2.conf` includes configuration parameters for the Bcfg2 server and
client.
## FILE FORMAT
The file is INI-style and consists of sections and options. A section
begins with the name of the sections in square brackets and continues
until the next section begins.
Options are specified in the form ’name = value’.
The file is line-based each newline-terminated line represents either a
comment, a section name or an option.
Any line beginning with a hash (#) is ignored, as are lines containing
only whitespace.
## SERVER OPTIONS
These options are only necessary on the Bcfg2 server. They are
specified in the `[server]` section of the configuration file.
* `repository`:
Specifies the path to the Bcfg2 repository containing all of the
configuration specifications. The repository should be created
using the `bcfg2-admin init` command.
* `filemonitor`:
The file monitor used to watch for changes in the repository. The
default is the best available monitor. The following values are
valid:
`inotify`,
`gamin`,
`fam`,
`pseudo`
* `ignore_files`:
A comma-separated list of globs that should be ignored by the file
monitor. Default values are:
`*~`,
`*#`,
`.#*`,
`*.swp`,
`.*.swx`,
`SCCS`,
`.svn`,
`4913`,
`.gitignore`
* `listen_all`:
This setting tells the server to listen on all available
interfaces. The default is to only listen on those interfaces
specified by the bcfg2 setting in the components section of
`bcfg2.conf`.
* `plugins`:
A comma-delimited list of enabled server plugins. Currently
available plugins are:
`Account`,
`Actions`,
`BB`,
`Base`,
`Bundler`,
`Bzr`,
`Cfg`,
`Cvs`,
`Darcs`,
`DBStats`,
`Decisions`,
`Deps`,
`Editor`,
`Fossil`,
`Git`,
`GroupPatterns`,
`Hg`,
`Hostbase`,
`Metadata`,
`NagiosGen`,
`Ohai`,
`Packages`,
`Pkgmgr`,
`Probes`,
`Properties`,
`Rules`,
`SGenshi`,
`Snapshots`,
`SSHbase`,
`Svn`,
`Svn2`,
`TCheetah`,
`TGenshi`,
`Trigger`
Descriptions of each plugin can be found in their respective
sections below.
* `prefix`:
Specifies a prefix if the Bcfg2 installation isn’t placed in the
default location (e.g. /usr/local).
### Account Plugin
The account plugin manages authentication data, including the following.
* `/etc/passwd`
* `/etc/group`
* `/etc/security/limits.conf`
* `/etc/sudoers`
* `/root/.ssh/authorized_keys`
### BB Plugin
The BB plugin maps users to machines and metadata to machines.
### Base Plugin
A structure plugin that provides the ability to add lists of unrelated
entries into client configuration entry inventories. Base works much
like Bundler in its file format. This structure plugin is good for the
pile of independent configs needed for most actual systems.
### Bundler Plugin
Bundler is used to describe groups of inter-dependent configuration
entries, such as the combination of packages, configuration files,
and service activations that comprise typical Unix daemons. Bundles are
used to add groups of configuration entries to the inventory of client
configurations, as opposed to describing particular versions of those
entries.
### Bzr Plugin
The Bzr plugin allows you to track changes to your Bcfg2 repository
using a GNU Bazaar version control backend. Currently, it enables you to
get revision information out of your repository for reporting purposes.
### Cfg Plugin
The Cfg plugin provides a repository to describe configuration file
contents for clients. In its simplest form, the Cfg repository is just a
directory tree modeled off of the directory tree on your client
machines.
### Cvs Plugin (experimental)
The Cvs plugin allows you to track changes to your Bcfg2 repository
using a Concurrent version control backend. Currently, it enables you to
get revision information out of your repository for reporting purposes.
### Darcs Plugin (experimental)
The Darcs plugin allows you to track changes to your Bcfg2 repository
using a Darcs version control backend. Currently, it enables you to get
revision information out of your repository for reporting purposes.
### DBStats Plugin
Direct to database statistics plugin.
### Decisions Plugin
The Decisions plugin has support for a centralized set of per-entry
installation decisions. This approach is needed when particular changes
are deemed "*high risk*"; this gives the ability to centrally specify
these changes, but only install them on clients when administrator
supervision is available.
### Deps Plugin
The Deps plugin allows you to make a series of assertions like "Package
X requires Package Y (and optionally also Package Z etc.)"
### Editor Plugin
The Editor plugin attempts to allow you to partially manage
configuration for a file. Its use is not recommended and not well
documented.
### Fossil Plugin
The Fossil plugin allows you to track changes to your Bcfg2 repository
using a Fossil SCM version control backend. Currently, it enables you to
get revision information out of your repository for reporting purposes.
### Git Plugin
The Git plugin allows you to track changes to your Bcfg2 repository
using a Git version control backend. Currently, it enables you to get
revision information out of your repository for reporting purposes.
### GroupPatterns Plugin
The GroupPatterns plugin is a connector that can assign clients group
membership based on patterns in client hostnames.
### Hg Plugin (experimental)
The Hg plugin allows you to track changes to your Bcfg2 repository using
a Mercurial version control backend. Currently, it enables you to get
revision information out of your repository for reporting purposes.
### Hostbase Plugin
The Hostbase plugin is an IP management system built on top of Bcfg2.
### Metadata Plugin
The Metadata plugin is the primary method of specifying Bcfg2 server
metadata.
### NagiosGen Plugin
NagiosGen is a Bcfg2 plugin that dynamically generates Nagios
configuration files based on Bcfg2 data.
### Ohai Plugin (experimental)
The Ohai plugin is used to detect information about the client operating
system. The data is reported back to the server using JSON.
### Packages Plugin
The Packages plugin is an alternative to Pkgmgr for specifying package
entries for clients. Where Pkgmgr explicitly specifies package entry
information, Packages delegates control of package version information
to the underlying package manager, installing the latest version
available from through those channels.
### Pkgmgr Plugin
The Pkgmgr plugin resolves the Abstract Configuration Entity "Package"
to a package specification that the client can use to detect, verify and
install the specified package.
### Probes Plugin
The Probes plugin gives you the ability to gather information from a
client machine before you generate its configuration. This information
can be used with the various templating systems to generate
configuration based on the results.
### Properties Plugin
The Properties plugin is a connector plugin that adds information from
properties files into client metadata instances.
### Rules Plugin
The Rules plugin provides literal configuration entries that resolve the
abstract configuration entries normally found in the Bundler and Base
plugins. The literal entries in Rules are suitable for consumption by
the appropriate client drivers.
### Snapshots Plugin
The Snapshots plugin stores various aspects of a client’s state when the
client checks in to the server.
### SSHbase Plugin
The SSHbase generator plugin manages ssh host keys (both v1 and v2) for
hosts. It also manages the ssh_known_hosts file. It can integrate host
keys from other management domains and similarly export its keys.
### Svn Plugin
The Svn plugin allows you to track changes to your Bcfg2 repository
using a Subversion backend. Currently, it enables you to get revision
information out of your repository for reporting purposes.
### Svn2 Plugin
The Svn2 plugin extends on the capabilities in the Svn plugin. It
provides Update and Commit methods which provide hooks for modifying
subversion-backed Bcfg2 repositories.
### TCheetah Plugin
The TCheetah plugin allows you to use the cheetah templating system to
create files. It also allows you to include the results of probes
executed on the client in the created files.
### TGenshi Plugin
The TGenshi plugin allows you to use the Genshi templating system to
create files. It also allows you to include the results of probes
executed on the client in the created files.
### Trigger Plugin
The Trigger plugin provides a method for calling external scripts when
clients are configured.
## CLIENT OPTIONS
These options only affect client functionality, specified in the
`[client]` section.
* `decision`:
Specify the server decision list mode (whitelist or blacklist).
(This settiing will be ignored if the client is called with the -f
option.)
* `drivers`:
Specify tool driver set to use. This option can be used to
explicitly specify the client tool drivers you want to use when the
client is run.
* `paranoid`:
Run the client in paranoid mode.
## COMMUNICATION OPTIONS
Specified in the `[communication]` section. These options define
settings used for client-server communication.
* `ca`:
The path to a file containing the CA certificate. This file is
required on the server, and optional on clients. However, if the
cacert is not present on clients, the server cannot be verified.
* `certificate`:
The path to a file containing a PEM formatted certificate which
signs the key with the ca certificate. This setting is required on
the server in all cases, and required on clients if using client
certificates.
* `key`:
Specifies the path to a file containing the SSL Key. This is
required on the server in all cases, and required on clients if
using client certificates.
* `password`:
Required on both the server and clients. On the server, sets the
password clients need to use to communicate. On a client, sets the
password to use to connect to the server.
* `protocol`:
Communication protocol to use. Defaults to xmlrpc/ssl.
* `retries`:
A client-only option. Number of times to retry network
communication.
* `serverCommonNames`:
A client-only option. A colon-separated list of Common Names the
client will accept in the SSL certificate presented by the server.
* `user`:
A client-only option. The UUID of the client.
## COMPONENT OPTIONS
Specified in the `[components]` section.
* `bcfg2`:
URL of the server. On the server this specifies which interface and
port the server listens on. On the client, this specifies where the
client will attempt to contact the server.
e.g. `bcfg2 = https://10.3.1.6:6789`
* `encoding`:
Text encoding of configuration files. Defaults to UTF-8.
## LOGGING OPTIONS
Specified in the `[logging]` section. These options control the server
logging functionality.
* `path`:
Server log file path.
## MDATA OPTIONS
These options affect the default metadata settings for Paths with
type=’file’.
* `owner`:
Global owner for Paths (defaults to root)
* `group`:
Global group for Paths (defaults to root)
* `perms`:
Global permissions for Paths (defaults to 644)
* `paranoid`:
Global paranoid settings for Paths (defaults to false)
* `sensitive`:
Global sensitive settings for Paths (defaults to false)
## PACKAGES OPTIONS
The following options are specified in the `[packages]` section of the
configuration file.
* `resolver`:
Enable dependency resolution. Default is 1 (true).
* `metadata`:
Enable metadata processing. Default is 1 (true). If metadata is
disabled, it’s implied that resolver is also disabled.
* `yum_config`:
The path at which to generate Yum configs. No default.
* `apt_config`:
The path at which to generate APT configs. No default.
* `gpg_keypath`:
The path on the client where RPM GPG keys will be copied before they
are imported on the client. Default is `/etc/pki/rpm-gpg`.
* `version`:
Set the version attribute used when binding Packages. Default is
auto.
The following options are specified in the `[packages:yum]` section of
the configuration file.
* `use_yum_libraries`:
By default, Bcfg2 uses an internal implementation of Yum’s
dependency resolution and other routines so that the Bcfg2 server
can be run on a host that does not support Yum itself. If you run
the Bcfg2 server on a machine that does have Yum libraries, however,
you can enable use of those native libraries in Bcfg2 by setting
this to 1.
* `helper`:
Path to bcfg2-yum-helper. By default, Bcfg2 looks first in $PATH and
then in `/usr/sbin/bcfg2-yum-helper` for the helper.
All other options in the `[packages:yum]` section will be passed along
verbatim to the Yum configuration if you are using the native Yum
library support.
The following options are specified in the `[packages:pulp]` section of
the configuration file.
* `username`:
The username of a Pulp user that will be used to register new
clients and bind them to repositories.
* `password`:
The password of a Pulp user that will be used to register new
clients and bind them to repositories.
## PARANOID OPTIONS
These options allow for finer-grained control of the paranoid mode on
the Bcfg2 client. They are specified in the `[paranoid]` section of the
configuration file.
* `path`:
Custom path for backups created in paranoid mode. The default is in
`/var/cache/bcfg2`.
* `max_copies`:
Specify a maximum number of copies for the server to keep when
running in paranoid mode. Only the most recent versions of these
copies will be kept.
## SNAPSHOTS OPTIONS
Specified in the `[snapshots]` section. These options control the server
snapshots functionality.
* `driver`:
sqlite
* `database`:
The name of the database to use for statistics data.
eg: `$REPOSITORY_DIR/etc/bcfg2.sqlite`
## SSLCA OPTIONS
These options are necessary to configure the SSLCA plugin and can be
found in the `[sslca_default]` section of the configuration file.
* `config`:
Specifies the location of the openssl configuration file for your
CA.
* `passphrase`:
Specifies the passphrase for the CA’s private key (if necessary).
If no passphrase exists, it is assumed that the private key is
stored unencrypted.
* `chaincert`:
Specifies the location of your ssl chaining certificate. This is
used when pre-existing certifcate hostfiles are found, so that they
can be validated and only regenerated if they no longer meet the
specification. If you’re using a self signing CA this would be the
CA cert that you generated.
## STATISTICS OPTIONS
Server-only, specified in the `[statistics]` section. These options
control the statistics collection functionality of the server.
* `database_engine`:
The database engine used by the statistics module. One of the
following:
`postgresql`,
`mysql`,
`sqlite3`,
`ado_mssql`
* `database_name`:
The name of the database to use for statistics data. If
‘database_engine’ is set to ‘sqlite3’ this is a file path to sqlite
file and defaults to `$REPOSITORY_DIR/etc/brpt.sqlite`.
* `database_user`:
User for database connections. Not used for sqlite3.
* `database_password`:
Password for database connections. Not used for sqlite3.
* `database_host`:
Host for database connections. Not used for sqlite3.
* `database_port`:
Port for database connections. Not used for sqlite3.
* `time_zone`:
Specify a time zone other than that used on the system. (Note that
this will cause the Bcfg2 server to log messages in this time zone
as well).
## SEE ALSO
bcfg2(1), bcfg2-server(8)
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