Talk:Glossary

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I'd offer the following alternatives (the originals seem oriented to a particular implementation):

cfagent: The action agent of cfengine, performs actions locally, retrieves files/policy from remote hosts (running cfservd)

cfexecd: Wrapper for cfagent, often run as daemon or from crond, used to capture and mail output

cfrun: Execute cfagent on remote hosts, requires cfservd to be running there (does not 'push' updates, and is fully optional)

cfservd: Cfengine server daemon, required on at least one host, in order to propagate policy/file changes. (It definitely does NOT need to be running on every cfengine-controlled host, unless you choose a certain model.)

-Ebrown