B
Point of Service Scripts
In a SUSE® Linux Enterprise Point of Service system, a number of scripts are provided
to initialize and maintain Administration and Branch Servers. This section describes
these scripts and their usage.
B.1 Overview
All the programs required to manage the system and to generate configuration files are
implemented in Perl and as shell scripts. All the filenames contain the prefix
pos
, so
a quick overview of the available programs can be displayed using tab completion.
It is recommended that you use the
/usr/sbin
directory as the storage location for
SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service scripts. All the scripts can be controlled
transparently using the
posAdmin.pl
meta script, as long as they are not run by cron.
The
posAdmin.pl
script is designed to operate in the same way on the Administration
Server as on the Branch Servers.
The basic mechanism for all actions (image transfer to a Branch Server, data readout
from the directory) is a pull mechanism from the Branch Servers that is run directly on
the Branch Servers. One important element is central logging of all actions with success
or failure flags on the Administration Server. For all actions, the rule must be transaction
security or atomic execution to avoid, for example, inconsistent configuration files.
