bcfg2-admin - Perform repository administration tasks
bcfg2-admin [-C configfile] mode [mode
args] [mode options]
bcfg2-admin is used to perform Bcfg2 repository
administration.
- -C configfile
- Specify alternate bcfg2.conf location.
- -E encoding
- Specify the encoding of config files.
- -Q path
- Specify the path to the server repository.
- -S server
- Manually specify the server location (as opposed to using the value in
bcfg2.conf). This should be in the format
"https://server:port"
- -d
- Enable debugging output.
- -h
- Print usage information.
- -o logfile
- Writes a log to the specified path.
- --ssl-key=key
- Specify the path to the SSL key.
- -v
- Enable verbose output.
- -x password
- Use 'password' for client communication.
- backup
- Create an archive of the entire Bcfg2 repository.
- client action client [attribute=value]
- Add, edit, or remove clients entries in metadata (See CLIENT OPTIONS
below).
- compare old
new
- Compare two client configurations. Can be used to verify consistent
behavior between releases. Determine differences between files or
directories (See COMPARE OPTIONS below).
- dbshell
- Call the Django 'dbshell' command on the configured database.
- init
- Initialize a new repository (interactive).
- initreports
- Initialize the Reporting database.
- minestruct
client [-f xml-file] [-g groups]
- Build structure entries based on client statistics extra entries (See
MINESTRUCT OPTIONS below).
- perf
- Query server for performance data.
- pull client
entry-type entry-name
- Install configuration information into repo based on client bad entries
(See PULL OPTIONS below).
- purgereports
- Purge historic and expired data from the Reporting database
- reportssqlall
- Call the Django 'shell' command on the Reporting database.
- reportsstats
- Print Reporting database statistics.
- scrubreports
- Scrub the Reporting database for duplicate reasons and orphaned
entries.
- shell
- Call the Django 'shell' command on the configured database.
- syncdb
- Sync the Django ORM with the configured database.
- tidy
- Remove unused files from repository.
- updatereports
- Apply database schema updates to the Reporting database.
- validatedb
- Call the Django 'validate' command on the configured database.
- viz [-H] [-b] [-k] [-o
png-file]
- Create a graphviz diagram of client, group and bundle information (See VIZ
OPTIONS below).
- xcmd
- Provides a XML-RPC Command Interface to the bcfg2-server.
- mode
- One of the following.
- add
- Add a client
- del
- Delete a client
- list
- List all client entries
- client
- Specify the client's name.
- attribute=value
- Set attribute values when adding a new client. Allowed attributes are
'profile', 'uuid', 'password', 'location', 'secure, and 'address'.
- -d N, --diff-lines N
- Show only N lines of a diff
- -c, --color
- Show colors even if not ryn from a TTY
- -q, --quiet
- Only show that entries differ, not how they differ
- old
- Specify the location of the old configuration(s).
- new
- Specify the location of the new configuration(s).
- client
- Client whose metadata is to be searched for extra entries.
- -g groups
- Hierarchy of groups in which to place the extra entries in.
- -f outputfile
- Specify the xml file in which to write the extra entries.
- client
- Specify the name of the client to search for.
- entry type
- Specify the type of the entry to pull.
- entry
name
- Specify the name of the entry to pull.
- -o outfile, --outfile outfile
- Write to outfile file instead of stdout.