AutoYaST is a system for unattended mass deployment of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server systems. AutoYaST installations are performed using an AutoYaST control file (also called a “profile”) with your customized installation and configuration data.
- 1 Introduction to AutoYaST
- I Understanding and Creating the AutoYaST Control File
- II AutoYaST Configuration Examples
- 4 Configuration and Installation Options
- 4.1 General Options
- 4.2 Reporting
- 4.3 System Registration and Extension Selection
- 4.4 The Boot Loader
- 4.5 Partitioning
- 4.6 iSCSI Initiator Overview
- 4.7 Fibre Channel over Ethernet Configuration (FCoE)
- 4.8 Country Settings
- 4.9 Software
- 4.10 Upgrade
- 4.11 Services and Targets
- 4.12 Network Configuration
- 4.13 NIS Client and Server
- 4.14 NIS Server
- 4.15 Hosts Definition
- 4.16 Windows Domain Membership
- 4.17 Samba Server
- 4.18 Authentication Client
- 4.19 NFS Client and Server
- 4.20 NTP Client
- 4.21 Mail Server Configuration
- 4.22 Apache HTTP Server Configuration
- 4.23 Squid Server
- 4.24 FTP Server
- 4.25 TFTP Server
- 4.26 Firstboot Workflow
- 4.27 Security Settings
- 4.28 Linux Audit Framework (LAF)
- 4.29 Users and Groups
- 4.30 Custom User Scripts
- 4.31 System Variables (Sysconfig)
- 4.32 Adding Complete Configurations
- 4.33 Ask the User for Values during Installation
- 4.34 Kernel Dumps
- 4.35 DNS Server
- 4.36 DHCP Server
- 4.37 Firewall Configuration
- 4.38 Miscellaneous Hardware and System Components
- 4.39 Importing SSH Keys and Configuration
- 4.40 Configuration Management
- 4 Configuration and Installation Options
- III Managing Mass Installations with Rules and Classes
- IV Understanding the Auto-Installation Process
- V Uses for AutoYaST on Installed Systems
- VI Appendices
- 2.1 AutoYaST Control File (Profile)
- 2.2 Control file container
- 2.3 Nested Resources
- 3.1 Example File for Replacing the Host Name/Domain by Script
- 4.1 General Options
- 4.2 Reporting Behavior
- 4.3 LVM-based Guided Partitioning
- 4.4 Creating
/,/homeandswappartitions - 4.5 Using a Whole Disk as a File System
- 4.6 Automated Partitioning on Selected Drives
- 4.7 Installing on Multiple Drives
- 4.8 Mount Options
- 4.9 Keeping partitions
- 4.10 Auto-detection of partitions to be kept.
- 4.11 Create LVM Physical Volume
- 4.12 LVM Logical Volumes
- 4.13 RAID10 configuration
- 4.14 RAID1 Without Partitions
- 4.15 Old style RAID10 configuration
- 4.16 Using Multipath Devices
- 4.17 Listing multipath devices
- 4.18 Using the WWID to Identify a Multipath Device
- 4.19
bcacheDefinition - 4.20 Multi-device Btrfs configuration
- 4.21 NFS Share Definition
- 4.22 iSCSI client
- 4.23 FCoE configuration
- 4.24 Language
- 4.25 Timezone
- 4.26 Keyboard
- 4.27 Explicit Product Selection
- 4.28 Package Selection in the Control File with Patterns and Packages Sections
- 4.29 Packages selection using a regular expression
- 4.30 Creating a Package Database With the Additional Package inst-source-utils.rpm
- 4.31
add_on_products.xml - 4.32 Adding the SDK Extension and a User Defined Repository
- 4.33 Kernel Selection in the Control File
- 4.34 Package Selection in Control File
- 4.35 Upgrade and Backup
- 4.36 Configuring Services and Targets
- 4.37 Network configuration
- 4.38 Bonding interface configuration
- 4.39 Bridge Interface Configuration
- 4.40 Assigning a Persistent Name Using the MAC Address
- 4.41 Network routing configuration
- 4.42 Network configuration: Proxy
- 4.43 Network configuration: NIS
- 4.44 NIS Server Configuration
- 4.45 /etc/hosts
- 4.46 Samba Client configuration
- 4.47 Samba Server configuration
- 4.48 Network Configuration: NFS Client
- 4.49 Network Configuration: NFS Server
- 4.50 Network Configuration: NTP Client
- 4.51 Mail Configuration
- 4.52 HTTP Server Configuration
- 4.53 Squid Server Configuration
- 4.54 FTP server configuration:
- 4.55 TFTP server configuration:
- 4.56 Enabling Firstboot Workflow
- 4.57 Security configuration
- 4.58 LAF configuration
- 4.59 Minimal User Configuration
- 4.60 Complex User Configuration
- 4.61 Group Configuration
- 4.62 Enabling autologin and password-less login
- 4.63 Script Configuration
- 4.64 Sysconfig Configuration
- 4.65 Dumping files into the installed system
- 4.66 Dumping files into the installed system
- 4.67 Kdump configuration
- 4.68 Disabled Kdump configuration
- 4.69 Kdump memory reservation with multiple values
- 4.70 Basic DNS server settings
- 4.71 Configuring DNS server zones and advanced settings
- 4.72 Example dhcp-server section
- 4.73 Example firewall section
- 4.74 Printer configuration
- 4.75 Sound configuration
- 4.76 Importing SSH Keys and Configuration from /dev/sda2
- 4.77 Client/Server with Manual Authentication
- 4.78 Client/Server with Preseed Keys
- 4.79 Standalone Mode
- 5.1 Simple Rules File
- 5.2 Simple Rules File
- 6.1 Determine HEX code for an IP address
- 6.2
linuxrcOptions in the AutoYaST Control File - D.1 Adding Modules and Extensions (online)
- D.2 Adding Modules and Extensions (offline)
- D.3 Specifying the Btrfs Default Subvolume Name
- D.4 Disabling Btrfs Subvolumes
- D.5 Assigning Zones: Default Configuration (Deprecated Syntax)
- D.6 Assigning Zones: Default Configuration (SLE 15 Syntax)
- D.7 Masquerading and Protecting Internal Zones (Deprecated Syntax)
- D.8 Masquerading and Protecting Internal Zones (SLE 15 Syntax)
- D.9 Opening Ports (Deprecated Syntax)
- D.10 Opening Ports (SLE 15 Syntax)
- D.11 Opening Services (Deprecated Syntax)
- D.12 Opening Services (SLE 15 Syntax)
- D.13 NTP configuration (SLE 15 Syntax)
- D.14 Minimal Registration Configuration for Upgrade
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