Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] SLES10sp3 Autoyast Network configs being processed but lost later.

21 Jan 2010

      I'm still not having a lot of joy on this.

I'm at the point where i think i'm needing to specify the bus
addresses of interfaces to get the config to stick, but i'd like to
make this as generic as possible.  (part of why i want to use
'autoyast' is my expectation that a lot of the hard-work in
autoconfig will be done for me ;))

So, i'm currently using rules to specify hardware type match to pull
in the right "modules" and <device> matches for specific hardware
types. e.g.

-------------------------------------------------------------------
[cf/rules/rules.xml]
    ...
    <!-- Network Card Configuration for R710s -->
    <rule>
      <product>
        <match>PowerEdge R710</match>
        <match_type>exact</match_type>
      </product>
      <result>
        <profile>ZORK-Dell11G.xml</profile>  <!-- Dell 11th Gen systems -->
        <continue config:type="boolean">true</continue>
      </result>
    </rule>
..Rule for node type via 'custom' rule follows this

-------------------------------------------------------------------
[ZORK-Dell11G]
(i specify network, broadcast,netmask here because all systems
have this in common)
    <interfaces config:type="list">
      <interface>
        <name>Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet</name>
        <prefixlen>24</prefixlen>
        <bootproto>static</bootproto>
        <device>eth0</device>
        <name>Internal Data Network</name>
        <network>192.168.50.0</network>
        <broadcast>192.168.50.255</broadcast>
        <netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
        <startmode>auto</startmode>
        <usercontrol>no</usercontrol>
      </interface>
      <interface>
        <name>Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet</name>
        <prefixlen>24</prefixlen>
        <bootproto>static</bootproto>
        <device>eth1</device>
        <name>Heartbeat and DRBD network</name>
        <network>192.168.55.0</network>
        <broadcast>192.168.55.255</broadcast>
        <netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
        <startmode>auto</startmode>
        <usercontrol>no</usercontrol>
      </interface>
    </interfaces>
    <managed config:type="boolean">false</managed>
    <modules config:type="list">
      <module_entry>
        <device>bus-pci-0000:01:00.0</device>
        <module>bnx2</module>
        <options></options>
      </module_entry>
      <module_entry>
        <device>bus-pci-0000:01:00.1</device>
        <module>bnx2</module>
        <options></options>
      </module_entry>
    </modules>
-------------------------------------------------------------------
[ZORKnode-in1]
    <interfaces config:type="list">
      <interface>
        <bootproto>static</bootproto>
        <device>eth0</device>
        <name>Internal Data Network</name>
        <ipaddr>192.168.50.31</ipaddr>
        <network>192.168.50.0</network>
        <broadcast>192.168.50.255</broadcast>
        <netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
        <prefixlen>24</prefixlen>
        <startmode>auto</startmode>
        <usercontrol>no</usercontrol>
      </interface>
      <interface>
        <bootproto>static</bootproto>
        <device>eth1</device>
        <name>Heartbeat and DRBD network</name>
        <ipaddr>192.168.55.1</ipaddr>
        <network>192.168.55.0</network>
        <broadcast>192.168.55.255</broadcast>
        <netmask>255.255.255.0</netmask>
        <prefixlen>24</prefixlen>
        <startmode>auto</startmode>
        <usercontrol>no</usercontrol>
      </interface>
    </interfaces>
    <managed config:type="boolean">false</managed>
-------------------------------------------------------------------

The end result of this after the profile merging is
that i get /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-{MAC-ADDR} files,
but they contain no IP info  (i.e. something like:
    BOOTPROTO='static'
    BROADCAST=''
    ETHTOOL_OPTIONS=''
    IPADDR=''
    MTU=''
    NAME='Internal Data Network'
    NETWORK=''
    REMOTE_IPADDR=''
    STARTMODE='auto'
    UNIQUE='rBUF.bBSepP2NetB'
    USERCONTROL='no'
    _nm_name='bus-pci-0000:01:00.0'

(i thought i saved one, so this is an approximation. several items
retained the values i had set for them, and other auto-generated
values such as UNIQUE and _nm_name were set as expected.)

So, any clues on what i'm doing wrong here?
(gack, i do just notice now that i have <name> specified
in the <interface> blocks in the 11G.xml file twice, but
the resultant ifcfg-eth file shows the NAME i specified last.

I'll remove the duplicate <name> entities and the network,
broadast, netmask, prefixlen (are both of those needed?)
from the 11G general profile and try again, but i do
want to make sure that this type of network interface+module
profile stacking (merge) is supported.

thanks,
--stephen

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Stephen Dowdy  -  Systems Administrator  -  NCAR/RAL
303.497.2869   -  sdowdy@ucar.edu        -  http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/
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