CfEngine Error in policy, clients not taking local policy

Question

I pushed an incorrect syntax policy from policy server into clients, resulting which all clients had an syntax error. Now I have corrected the policy in policy server, the clients are not picking up updated policy,as if cf-agent is not executing failsafe.cf.So is there any way to make clients take up this policy or any reason as to why the cfengine failed this way. Moreover, I didn't change any of update.cf or failsafe.cf and using ubuntu systems.

Answer 1

Can you try running cf-agent -KI -f update.cf on one of the failing clients, and see what it tells you? If that doesn't shed any light, try adding -v to see the verbose output.

Without knowing more, here are some things that I think could be causing this behavior:

1. cf-execd is not running on the clients, so cf-agent is not being run.
2. The server is unreachable from the clients for some reason.