---
name: "cf-know"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "cfengine3"
version: "3.2.4-2+nmu1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cf-know"
---

# cf-know(8)

cfengine's knowledge agent

## NAME

cf-know - cfengine's knowledge agent

## SYNOPSIS:

 cf-know \[options\]

## DESCRIPTION:

The knowledge management agent is capable of building and analysing a semantic knowledge network. It can configure a relational database to contain an ISO standard topic map and permit regular-expression based searching of the map. Analysis of the semantic network can be performed providing graphical output of the data, and cf-know can assemble and converge the reference manual for the current version of the Cfengine software. **cfengine** is a self-healing configuration and change management based system. You can think of  **cfengine** as a very high level language, much higher level than Perl or shell. Asingle statement is called a promise, and compliance can result in many hundreds of filesbeing created, or the permissions of many hundreds offiles being set. The idea of  **cfengine** is to create a one or more sets of configuration files which willclassify and describe the setup of every host in a network.

## COMMAND LINE OPTIONS:

- \--help, -h

  Print the help message

- \--build, -b

  Build and store topic map in the CFDB

- \--debug, -d

  Set debugging level 0,1,2,3

- \--verbose, -v

  Output verbose information about the behaviour of the agent

- \--version, -V

  Output the version of the software

- \--file, -f

  Specify an alternative input file than the default

- \--manual, -m

  Generate reference manual from internal data

- \--manpage, -M

  Generate reference manpage from internal data

- \--stories, -z

  Look up stories for a given topic on the command line

- \--syntax, -S

  Print a syntax summary of the optional keyword or this cfengine version

- \--topics, -T

  Show all topic names in CFEngine

- \--test, -t

  Generate test data

- \--removetest, -r

  Remove test data

- \--updatetest, -u

  Update test data

## AUTHOR

Mark Burgess and CFEngine AS

## INFORMATION

Bug reports: http://bug.cfengine.com, .PP Community help: http://forum.cfengine.com

Community info: http://www.cfengine.com/pages/community

Support services: http://www.cfengine.com

This software is Copyright (C) 2008-2013 CFEngine AS.