AutoYast Example File

SUSE provides templates of AutoYaST profiles in the SUSE/manager-build-profiles public GitHub repository.

Minimalist AutoYaST Profile for Automated Installations and Useful Enhancements

The AutoYaST profile in this section installs a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server system with all default installation options including a default network configuration using DHCP. After the installation is finished, a bootstrap script located on the Uyuni server is executed to register the freshly installed system with Uyuni. You need to adjust the IP address of the Uyuni server, the name of the bootstrap script, and the root password according to your environment:

<user>
 ...
 <username>root</username>
 <user_password>`linux`</user_password>
</user>

<location>http://`192.168.1.1`/pub/bootstrap/`my_bootstrap.sh`</location>

The complete AutoYaST file:

You can find the AutoYaST file at https://github.com/SUSE/manager-build-profiles/tree/master/AutoYaST/Minimal-AutoYaST.

Use this enhancement fragment to add child channels:

<add-on>
 <add_on_products config:type="list">
  <listentry>
   <ask_on_error config:type="boolean">true</ask_on_error>
   <media_url>http://$c_server/ks/dist/child/`channel-label`/`distribution-label`</media_url>
   <name>$c_name</name>
   <product>$c_product</product>
   <product_dir>/</product_dir>
  </listentry>
  <listentry>
  <!-- SLES SUSE Manager tools Pool -->
    <media_url>http://$c_server/ks/dist/child/`channel-label`/`sle-manager-tools`/`distribution-label`</media_url>
    ...
  </listentry>
  ...
 </add_on_products>
</add-on>

Replace channel-label and distribution-label with the correct labels (such as sles12-sp4-updates-x86_64 and sles12-sp4-x86_64). Ensure that the distribution label corresponds to the Autoinstallable Distribution. Set the variables (such as $c_server) according to your environment. For more information about variables, see reference:systems/autoinst-distributions.adoc.

Here is a literal example for sles12-sp4-x86_64:

<add-on>
  <add_on_products config:type="list">
    <listentry>
      <!-- SLES12 Updates -->
      <media_url>http://192.168.150.10/ks/dist/child/dev-sles12-sp4-updates-x86_64/dev-sles12sp4</media_url>
      <product>SLES 12 Updates</product>
      <product_dir>/</product_dir>
      <name>SLES12 Updates</name>
    </listentry>
    <listentry>
      <!-- SLES12 SUSE Manager Tools Pool -->
      <media_url>http://192.168.150.10/ks/dist/child/dev-sle-manager-tools12-pool-x86_64-sp4/dev-sles12sp4</media_url>
      <product>SLES 12 Pool SUSE Manager Tools</product>
      <product_dir>/</product_dir>
      <name>SLES12 Pool SUSE Manager Tools</name>
    </listentry>
    <listentry>
      <!-- SLES12  SUSE Manager Tools Updates -->
      <media_url>http://192.168.150.10/ks/dist/child/dev-sle-manager-tools12-updates-x86_64-sp4/dev-sles12sp4</media_url>
      <product>SLES 12 Updates SUSE Manager Tools</product>
      <product_dir>/</product_dir>
      <name>SLES12 Updates SUSE Manager Tools</name>
    </listentry>
  </add_on_products>
</add-on>

It is required that you add the updates tools channel to the <add-on> AutoYaST snippet section. This ensures your systems are provided with an up-to-date version of the libzypp package. If you do not include the updates tools channel, you will encounter 400 errors. In this example, the (DISTRIBUTION_NAME) is replaced with the name of the autoinstallation distribution from Systems  Autoinstallation  Distributions.

<listentry>
  <ask_on_error config:type="boolean">true</ask_on_error>
   <media_url>http://$redhat_management_server/ks/dist/child/sles12-sp2-updates-x86_64/(DISTRIBUTION_NAME)</media_url>
  <name>sles12 sp2 updates</name>
  <product>SLES12</product>
  <product_dir>/</product_dir>
</listentry>