Disabling Persistent Device Names - Novell ZENWORKS LINUX MANAGEMENT 7.3 IR2 - ADMINISTRATION GUIDE 02-12-2010 Administration Manual

Using a CD or DVD
If you cannot use the PXE or ZENworks partition methods to automate imaging of your devices,
you can manually image a device using an imaging CD or DVD.
For information, see

29.7.3 Disabling Persistent Device Names

If you try to boot a cloned virtual machine or a physical machine, the following problems might
occur:
Unable to find file systems
The network is not up
Change in the network device names
To fix these issues, you must disable the persistent device names for network and storage before
cloning the devices.
"Disabling the Persistent Network Device Names" on page 404
"Disabling the Persistent Storage Device Names" on page 405
Disabling the Persistent Network Device Names
Review the following sections to understand how to disable the persistent network device names for
SLES 10, SLED 10, SLES 9, and NLD:
"Disabling the Persistent Network Device Names for SLES 10 / SLED 10" on page 404
"Disabling the Persistent Network Device Names for SLES 9 / NLD" on page 405
Disabling the Persistent Network Device Names for SLES 10 / SLED 10
1 Reset the udev configuration for the network devices by executing the following command:
cat < /dev/null > /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules command
2 Rename the Ethernet configuration files to initialize the Ethernet devices on boot.
2a Go to
2b Find the
for an Ethernet device represents the MAC address for the device.
For example, in the
AA:BB:22:33
2c Rename the file to
the system. For example, the name for the configuration
3 In
the /etc/sysconfig/network/config
FORCE_PERSISTENT_NAMES
4 Reboot the device.
404 Novell ZENworks 7.3 Linux Management Administration Guide
Section 30.1.3, "Setting Up Disconnected Imaging Operations," on page
/etc/sysconfig/network
file for each Ethernet device. In the filename, the trailing identifier
ifcfg-eth
ifcfg-eth-id-00:AA:BB:11:22:33
, is the MAC address for the device.
ifcfg-ethX,
to .
No
.
where X represents the number of Ethernet devices on
eth0
file, change the value of
file, the trailing identifier,
is .
ifcfg-eth0
424.
.