Strategies

Relevant classes: any Strategies are introduced as of cfengine version 2.0.x. A strategy is a probability distribution of classes. In game theoretical language, a strategy is a mixed strategy. Each class labels are pure strategy, or a possible course of action. A strategy is defined as follows: strategies: { my_strategy_alias class1: "2" class2: "3" class3: "$(value)" class4: "6" class5: "1" } tidy: class1.Hr00:: /home pat=*.mp3 age=0 class2.Hr02:: /home pat=*.mp3 age=0 Formally, each strategy is a class which is defined with a certain probability. An integer weight is provided in quotes to represent the probability of the classes. When cfengine is run, it picks on of the classes from each strategy by `throwing dice' to select a strategy at random. Think of Star Trek, when the Captain says "rotate shield modulations". Using strategies, you can choose different ways of configuring or protecting a system, at random, thus confounding environmental attempts to break (into) the system. Note that each strategy has a formal name, but this name is not used to attach a strategy to an action, as in filters, or acls. Rather, think of this simply as a way of defining classes at random, from a set. Back to documentation