Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 549

27.4.2 Creating and Managing Profiles
A profile named default already exists after SCPM has been activated. Get a list of
all available profiles with scpm list. This one existing profile is also the active one,
which can be verified with scpm active. The profile default is a basic configu-
ration from which the other profiles are derived. For this reason, all settings that should
be identical in all profiles should be made first. Then store these modifications in the
active profile with scpm reload. The default profile can be copied and renamed
as the basis for new profiles.
There are two ways to add a new profile. If the new profile (named work here) should
be based on the profile default, create it with scpm copy default work. The
command scpm switch work changes into the new profile, which can then be
modified. You may want to modify the system configuration for special purposes and
save the changes to a new profile. The command scpm add work creates a new
profile by saving the current system configuration in the profile work and marking it
as active. Running scpm reload then saves changes to the profile work.
Rename or delete profiles with the commands scpm rename x y and scpm
delete z. For example, to rename work to project, enter scpm rename work
project. To delete project, enter scpm delete project. The active profile
cannot be deleted.
27.4.3 Switching Configuration Profiles
The command scpm switch work switches to another profile (the profile work,
in this case). Switch to the active profile to include modified settings of the system
configuration in the profile. This corresponds to the command scpm reload.
When switching profiles, SCPM first checks which resources of the active profile have
been modified. It then queries whether the modification of each resource should be
added to the active profile or dropped. If you prefer a separate listing of the resources
(as in former versions of SCPM), use switch with the -r parameter: scpm switch
-r work.
scpm switch -r work
Checking for modified resources
Checking for Resources to be started/shut down
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