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CFENGINE DEMOS

This page contains video presentations demonstrating key capabilities of
Cfengine Community and Enterprise editions.

1. Cfengine Nova Product Presentation - Learn how Cfengine Nova can automate your datacenter. This demo takes you through the technological basics of Cfengine Nova and introduces you to our life-cycle management solution - BDMA. See how you can ensure desired states.

2. Why CIOs say "yes" to Cfengine Nova - Responsible for datacenter compliance and budget? View this movie to learn how you can reduce operational costs by automating the maintenance of your machines, and at the same time demonstrate control of your environment and prove compliance effectively.

3. Cfengine Nova Knowledge Map - This demo will take you through the adventure of the Knowledge Map. Learn about the intensions behind this service, and how the Knowledge Map will enable you to demonstrate control of your environment. Compliance reports and checks are only a few clicks away. Put all your Cfengine agents at work and see how they automatically turn huge amounts of data into organizational knowledge.

4. Knowledge Map and SOX Compliance - Cfengine Knowledge Map makes it easy to prove control of your environment. This examples illustrates how Cfengine can be used as a tool for ensuring change management compliance in relation to SOX.

5. Cfengine and Change Detection - Cfengine offers extensive tripwire functionality. Combined with Cfengine auto-repair functionality you can ensure policy compliance on files and directories. In this video you will see how Cfengine detects file creation, file change and file deletion. Use Cfengine to secure your files and prevent unauthorized changes. With Cfengine you can keep track of all configuration changes and view them in detailed reports.

6. Cfengine and Apache Webserver - This demo shows you how Cfengine can manage one Apache webserver to ensure server availability and uptime. Use policies to define how to manage your webservers, and Cfengine will make sure your webserver are compliant with your policies. Avoid any downtime due to misconfigured or accidentally deleted files.

7. Cfengine and Windows Registry - This demo shows you how Cfengine can manage the Windows registry. With Cfengine you can make sure the registry always stays compliant with your policies. Manage the whole registry or just specific keys and / or key-values.

8. Cfengine and PXE Boot - Cfengine manages your servers and networks of machines throughout the life-cycle. Use Cfengine during the build and deploy phase by creating PXE-boot servers controlled and deployed by Cfengine. Based on policies you can turn any server into whatever configuration setting you like, independent of operating system and required services. This demo will show how to create a Cfengine PXE-boot server and then install Redhat on a clean machine using Cfengine. PS: This demo has sound.

9. The Cfengine Installation - Cfengine can be installed in minutes. By using prebuilt packages and promises from Cfengine.com your organizations can be up and running in hours. In this video you will see how you can download the free community edtion of Cfengine from the cfengine.org site, and get it up and running and verify a succesfull installation.

10. Knowledge Map and Support Ticket Integration - Cfengine can easily be integrated into your ticket system to help solve new incidents. This demo will show how to use Knowledge Map to show all open tickets, look closer at one specific ticket and check if this ticket relates to any of the promises that has not been kept by Cfengine.

11. Cfengine Computer-Process Management - Use Cfengine to manage your computer-processes. Use application-availability policies to ensure uptime at all times. Cfengine starts, deletes and/or restart processes, all according to your policies. In this video we will show how Cfengine restarts a broken Apache-server. The demo will show how Cfengine can kill a process, and how it automatically (the Cfengine Agent) restarts the same process.

12. Cfengine DNS Resolver - This clip shows how cfengine can deal with a very common issue in network configuration: setting up the name-server bindings. DNS configuration is sometimes done by DHCP, but statically configured servers can be maintained by Cfengine directly. We show how Cfengine repairs a damaged configuration file to ensure the correct settings.