If you don't use Automated Installer, you can safely delete this message.
With the integration of
PSARC/2010/164 interfaces for basic install network configuration
6923163 Automated Install requires mechanism for configuring static IP addresses
6923168 Automated Install requires a mechanism for configuring name services
for clients
and related slim_source changeset
Author: Jan Damborsky<[email protected]>
Repository: /hg/caiman/slim_source
Latest revision: f51b1eaaef28b6665b210e4de433b15d43fc5930
Total changesets: 1
Log message:
7850 RFE would like support for static network instead of nwam config
10781 RFE - AI Needs to Support DNS Name Service Configuration for Clients
16526 Missing dir in system-install.mf
Files:
create: usr/src/cmd/auto-install/static_network.xml
update: usr/src/Makefile.master
update: usr/src/Targetdirs
update: usr/src/cmd/Makefile.targ
update: usr/src/cmd/auto-install/Makefile
update:
usr/src/pkg/manifests/system-install-auto-install-auto-install-common.mf
update: usr/src/pkg/manifests/system-install.mf
Automated Installer has been enhanced with better support for
networking configuration.
It is now possible to configure
- one IPv4 network interface (static or DHCP)
- one IPv6 network interface (static or addrconf)
- IPv4 default route
- IPv6 default route
- DNS as naming service (nameserver list, search list, domain)
In order to ease the process of creating System Configuration (SC)
manifest with networking configuration, template of SC manifest
with pre-configured values is provided.
It can be downloaded from [4] or if you install latest version
of installadm(1M) tools (which is recommended anyway), it will
reside in /usr/share/auto_install/sc_profiles/static_network.xml.
Comparing with SC manifest delivered in default AI manifest,
this template additionally pre-configures:
* 'default' instance of svc:/network/physical smf service taking care
of network configuration instead of 'nwam' (which is disabled). This
is prerequisite for enhanced networking configuration.
* one network interface with static IPv4
* IPv4 default route
* one IPv6 network interface with addrconf, stateful=yes,stateless=yes
(see ipadm(1M) man page for information for more details and alternatives)
* DNS as a naming service
In that template, you need to modify at least following parameters
to reflect your real networking configuration:
In 'install_ipv4_interface' property group:
* name - name of network interface to be configured with IPv4
* static_address - IPv4 static address with length of network prefix
(e.g. 10.0.0.10/8)
* default_route - IPv4 default route, e.g. 10.0.0.1
In 'install_ipv6_interface' property group:
* name - name of network interface to be configured with IPv6
(it could be the same as IPv4 one)
In 'install_props' property group of 'svc:/network/dns/install:default'
smf service:
* nameserver - nameserver list
* search - search list
The resulting manifest can be either used to directly replace
SC manifest embedded within AI manifest or could be included
in AI manifest taking advantage of <sc_manifest_file>
tag.
See manifest related section in AI documentation [3]
for more information.
IMPACT
======
Machine hosting AI server needs to run build 144 or newer,
so that AI server can correctly handle System Configuration
manifest containing new smf types 'net_address' and 'net_address_list'
(those smf types were introduced in build 144).
REPORTING ISSUES
================
Any bugs related to to these changes can be filed in Bugzilla
under Development/installer/autoinstall category.
For questions, please send email to [email protected]
mailing list.
FURTHER READING
===============
For more details and more examples, see PSARC document [1] and
documents on System Configuration project pages [2].
References:
[1] http://arc.opensolaris.org/caselog/PSARC/2010/164/
[2]
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/System+Configuration+Project
[3] http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/dev/AIinstall/manifest.html
[4]
http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/download/Project+caiman/System+Configuration+Project/staticnetwork.xml
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