CFEngine defects are managed in our [bug tracker][bug tracker]. Please report bugs or unexpected behavior there, following the documented guideline for new bug reports.

The items below highlight issues that require additional awareness when starting with CFEngine or when upgrading from a previous version.

Constant variables do not work, variables are always overrideable

https://dev.cfengine.com/issues/1492

Showing Classes and variables with cf-promsies

cf-promises --show-classes and cf-promises --show-vars will only show classes and variables found on a first pass through the policy, since cf-promises does not evaluate agent promises.

Protocol incompatibility between

The CFEngine protocol versions 1 and 2 are incompatible (the latter is based on TLS). CFEngine 3.6 supports both protocol versions, but earlier versions only support protocol version 1. Protocol version 1 is still the default in 3.6 but the default will change to 2 in future versions.

RHEL / CentOS 7 and systemd

Installing the Community Edition gives the following message, but it should be silent:

Starting cfengine3 (via systemctl): [ OK ]
Starting the CFEngine daemons from policy, e.g. bootstrapping, does not make systemd aware that CFEngine is running. Thus, using systemd while removing the rpm, starting, stopping CFEngine is not handled correctly.

Solaris 11 specific

Some important system information is missing from the Solaris 11 inventory report, as well as from CFEngine hard classes and system variables. The workaround is to use system tools to obtain the required information and set classes based on this. * MAC address * Network interfaces

HP-UX specific

[Package promises][packages] do not have out-of-the-box support for the HP-UX specific package manager. The workaround is to call the package manager directly using [commands promises][commands].
Some important system information is missing from the HP-UX inventory report, as well as from CFEngine hard classes and system variables. The workaround is to use system tools to obtain the required information and set classes based on this. * MAC address * Network interfaces * Disk free * Memory size * Several OS and architecture specific attributes * System version * System serial number * System manufacturer * CPU model * BIOS version * BIOS vendor
[User promises][users] do not work reliably on HP-UX. It is recommended not to use them at this time. The workaround is to call the useradd/usermod/userdel tools directly.
[Process promises][processes] promises do not work reliably on HP-UX. The recommended workaround is to use the ps and kill tools directly using [commands promises][commands].
[edit_xml bundles][bundle edit_xml] do not work on HP-UX.

CFEngine Enterprise Specific

Emails sent for alert noticies come from ‘admin@orginization.com’.

There is currently no setting in Mission Portal to configure the sender email address. This issue is on the backlog and will be addressed in a future release.

To change the setting you must edit the from email address in /var/cfengine/httpd/htdocs/application/config/appsettings.php

// Default FROM email address $config['appemail'] = 'admin@organisation.com';