A step-by-step guide to setting up Cfengine and fully automating the configuration and management of your laptop, desktop, server, or mainframe. The first and only book dedicated to the Cfengine framework. Detailed instructions on installing, configuring, and setting up Cfengine and using it to build, secure and monitor your infrastructure. Real world projects and tasks straight from the data centre. Monitoring, logging and reporting explained with easy-to-understand examples. Covers all Cfengine commands, promises, variables, functions and best practices. In Detail Cfengine is a compact automation framework primarily used to provide automated configuration and maintenance of laptops, desktops, servers, and mainframes. It is not a very complex fram...