CFEngine policy not executed on ubuntu nodes

jfeyen · 08-16-2014, 03:45 AM

Hi,

I just started with CFEngine. I have 1 policy servers and 2 clients (Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop , Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop) Started with creating a local policy on the Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop with CFEngine agent installed on it. This policy removes an existing "telnet" client.

That local policy worked fine. So I wanted to use the policy on my policy server which then should push it to the clients after 5 minutes. This does not work.

These are the steps I did on the policy server:

Step1: Create a file remove_packages.cf in the /var/cfengine/masterfiles directory

Code:

bundle agent remove_packages
{
  methods:
      "telnet"  usebundle => package_absent("telnet");
}

Step2: vi promises.cf in the /var/cfengine/masterfiles directory and add

Code:

body common control

{

      bundlesequence => {
           remove_packages,

Step3: vi promises.cf in the /var/cfengine/masterfiles directory and add

Code:

  inputs => {
            # JF 15/08/2014 remove telnet package
                  "remove_packages.cf",

      };

Step4: Check on mistakes

Code:

root@ubuntu:/var/cfengine/masterfiles# cf-promises ./promises.cf

Step5: Wait 5 minutes until it replicates to the clients..

Here nothing happens at the clients ... As you can see it is still present:

root@ubu14client:~# which telnet
/usr/bin/telnet
Can somebody explain me why it does not work?

Many thanks for helping me out!

Kr,

Joeri

jfeyen · 08-16-2014, 05:11 AM

I found in another post it had to do with "clock skew".

I have set the correct timezone for my servers and update with the ubuntu timeservers. From then everything went fine.

http://serverfault.com/questions/387...ate-to-clients