disable-recommendations

The Masterfiles Policy Framework (MPF) emits recommendations for various settings given the context and role of a host.

For example, when federated reporting is enabled on an Enterprise hub, there is a recommendation to install gnu-parallel.

R: CFEngine recommends installing gnu parallel on federated reporting superhubs.

These can be useful, but you may want to disable the functionality to quiet your policy runs. This module facilitates disabling all recommendations by defining the default:cfengine_recommendations_disabled class. Thus it is an equivalent to editing the augments file (/var/cfengine/masterfiles/def.json) to:

{
  "classes": {
    "default:cfengine_recommendations_disabled": {
      "class_expressions": [ "any::" ],
      "comment": "We disabled all recommendations emitted by the MPF to quiet policy output."
    }
  }
}