Hello. We are running SLES9 and use autoyast to perform our client installations. I'm trying to get my installation environment to the point where I can build machines which have a hostname set and non dhcp ip's for eth0/eth1 with various routes entries. I've now been able to kind of get a working understanding of using rules.xml and profiles (mainly through reading postings from this list). So i've got this rule working which grabs the appropriated domain profile (extra domains removed for readability). The domain profile basically has all the general high level settings that apply to hosts in a domain. But then I need to be able to incorporate each host specific profile which contains host specific entries such as hostname/ip address/gateway/static routes/etc. <rule> <domain> <match>ca.company.net</match> <match_type>exact</match_type> </domain> <result> <profile>sles9.ca.cfg</profile> <continue config:type="boolean">true</continue> </result> </rule> But now I'm trying to configure the host specific profile. I realized I could add in and rule for every single host that I'm installing which would do the following but I dont like the idea of having to edit the rules file for every single host that I install. <rule> <mac> <operator>and</operator> <match>00093f10cc32</match> <match_type>exact</match_type> </mac> <result> <result> <profile>host42.ca.company.net.xml</profile> </result> </rule> Ideally I would like to see something where I have a catch all rule for all hosts which ends in a match and the resulting profile it looks for is an xml file that I have created which would be something like <mac_address>.xml or <ip_address>.xml. I've seen a posting from Anas that I could use some notation like <profile>profile-@mac@.xml</profile> But I dont know how to set that "mac" variable within the rule. Would I do a custom rule to do this and if so how would I do it? If I'm running a custom script do I embed it in the xml or have a path to a script that gets executed? I would really appreciate any pointers or tips on this topic as I feel if I can get over this last hurdle I will have a fairly portable autoyast structure that I can propogate to our various sites without much modification. If anyone would be able to include any custom rule examples I would be very greatful. Thanks for your help! Derek.