Rudimentary compliance report for CFEngine

In CFEngine community you don’t have a web GUI with compliance report. You can get them via EvolveThinking’s Delta Reporting, but if you can’t for any reason, you need to find another way.

A poor man’s compliance report at the bundle level can be extracted via the verbose output. This is how I’ve used it to ensure that a clean-up change in the policies didn’t alter the overall behavior:

cf-agent -Kv 2>&1 | perl -lne 'm{verbose: (/.+): Aggregate compliance .+ = (\d+\.\d%)} && print "$1 ($2)"'

These are the first ten lines of output on my workstation:

bronto@brabham:~$ sudo cf-agent -Kv 2>&1 | perl -lne 'm{verbose: (/.+): Aggregate compliance .+ = (\d+\.\d%)} && print "$1 ($2)"' | head -n 10
/default/banner (100.0%)
/default/inventory_control (100.0%)
/default/inventory_autorun/methods/'proc'/default/cfe_autorun_inventory_proc (100.0%)
/default/inventory_autorun/methods/'fstab'/default/cfe_autorun_inventory_fstab (100.0%)
/default/inventory_autorun/methods/'mtab'/default/cfe_autorun_inventory_mtab (100.0%)
/default/inventory_autorun/methods/'dmidecode'/default/cfe_autorun_inventory_dmidecode (100.0%)
/default/inventory_autorun (100.0%)
/default/inventory_linux (100.0%)
/default/inventory_lsb (100.0%)
/default/services_autorun (100.0%)

Not much, but better than nothing and a starting point anyway. There is much more information in the verbose log that you can extract with something slightly more elaborated than this one-liner. Happy data mining, enjoy!

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