Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.3 IR2, Administration Manual

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Disabling the Persistent Network Device Names for SLES 9 / NLD
You must rename the Ethernet configuration file to initialize the Ethernet devices on boot.
1 Go to
/etc/sysconfig/network
.
2 Find the
ifcfg-eth
file for each Ethernet device. In the filename, the trailing identifier for an
Ethernet device represents the MAC address for the device.
For example,
In the ifcfg-eth-id-00:AA:BB:11:22:33 file, the trailing identifier,
AA:BB:22:33, is the MAC address for the device.
3 Rename the file to
ifcfg-ethX,
where X represents the number of Ethernet devices on the
system. For example, the name for the configuration
eth0
is
ifcfg-eth0
.
Disabling the Persistent Storage Device Names
To disable the persistent storage device names for SLES9/SLES10/SLED9/SLED10:
1
Search for the
/dev/disk/by-*
references in the boot loader configuration file
/boot/grub/
menu.lst
and the file system table
/etc/fstab.
2 Store the mapping of
/dev/disk/by-*
symlinks to their targets in a scratch file:
ls -l /
dev/disk/by-* > /tmp/scratchpad.txt
.
3 Remove storage-specific entries, such as SAN or iSCSI volumes, that are not local to the
system.
4 In
/boot//grub/menu.lst and/etc/fstab
files, replace the
/dev/disk/by-*
entries from
the scratch file with the device names the symlinks point to.
5 Reboot the device.