This document describes AII's Kickstart generator.
This AII component generates a Kickstart for installing SL 5 and higher. It must be called from aii-shellfe 2 or higher.
All these paths are relative to /system/aii/osinstall/ks.
ackurl : absolute URI
The absolute URL where the aii-installack.cgi script is located. This script will change the PXE state for the node from network boot ("install") to local boot ("boot"). This field is set automatically using the variables AII_ACK_SRV and AII_ACK_CGI.
acklist : absolute URI[]
An alternative to ackurl, allowing the use of more than one bootservers. If acklist is set, then ackurl is not used.
auth : string[]
List of options for authentication. Defaults to ("enableshadow", "passalgo=sha512"). i.e. enable shadow passwords and sha512 hashing.
bonding : boolean
Support network bonding.
bootloader_location : string
The location of the bootloader. Valid values are "mbr", "partition" and "none". Defaults to "mbr".
bootloader_append ? string
String to add in an "--append" option for the bootloader
bootloader_password ? string
Encrypted password used for locking down the bootloader. The format depends on the bootloader being used, e.g. Grub 1 wants an MD5-encrypted password, while Grub 2 wants PDKDF2 format.
clearmbr : boolean
Whether the disk's master boot record (MBR) should be cleared when installing the node. Defaults to true.
clearpart ? string[]
List of devices whose partitions must be cleared before proceeding with the installation.
driverdisk ? absoluteURI
URL for any additional drivers that might be needed during the installation.
email_success : boolean
Whether an e-mail should be sent to the system administrator upon a successful installation. Defaults to false.
installnumber ? string
Installation number used for support purposes.
installtype : string
A string containing the type of installation and the location of the distribution on the Kickstart server. This field will be derived by AII on later versions.
keyboard : string
The preferred keyboard layout for the node. Defaults to "us".
lang : string
The language used during the installation process. Defaults to "en_US.UTF-8".
langsupport : string[]
List of languages to be installed during this phase. If you use several languages, you must mark the entry for the default one with '--default=<your_lang>'.
mouse : string
The mouse type for the system. Defaults to "none".
bootproto : string
Protocol for configuring the network interface. It must be either "dhcp" or "static".
node_profile : absoluteURI
URL where the profile can be fetched. On systems using CCM (most of them!) this should be the same value as of
/software/components/ccm/profile.osinstall_protocol : string
Protocol for the installation. It must be either HTTP, HTTPS, NFS or FTP.
ignoredisk ? string[]
List of devices that Anaconda will have to skip during the installation.
pre_install_script, post_install_script, post_reboot_script ? absoluteURI
URLs where the user-specific scripts can be fetched from. Please note that these scripts are not hooks!
LOCALHOST will be substituted with the local hostname.
timezone : string
Your local timezone, e.g: Europe/Madrid.
ntpservers ? string[]
List of NTP servers to be used by Anaconda.
selinux : string
Enable SELinux on your system. Must be one of "disabled", "enforcing" or "permissive".
disable_service ? string[]
List of services to be disabled and removed before the reboot.
packages : string[]
List of packages to be installed before the reboot.
base_packages ? string[]
Base packages needed for a Quattor client to run (CCM, NCM etc.) in post-reboot phase. Only the packages that are (also) listed in
/software/packageswill be installed. The installation is part of the post phase using all configured yum repositories with theskip_if_unavailableflag enabled.packagesinpost ? boolean
When true, the
%packagessection in the kickstart commands is empty, and all packages are installed in the%postsection (but the packages are not filtered like the base_packages. (Use this option if the base repo does not contain the packages, e.g. if they come from the Server_Optional repo).disabled_repos ? string[]
List of Yum repositories that should be disabled during the
%postphase. Useful on RH 5 systems, where Yum can't skip repositories that need some additional configurations.It accepts wildcards, as Yum does.
packages_args ? string[]
List of switches to add to the kickstart "%packages" line. Defaults to "--resolvedeps --ignoremissing"; you probably want to keep those in the list.
end_script ? string
No longer used.
part_label: boolean
If set to true, then the "part" stanzas in the kickstart configuration will have a "--label" option to set the label of the file system.
version : string
The OS version as the installation flavour.
enable_sshd : boolean
Start sshd server during kickstart. Login with user root and the root installation password. (EL6.0+ only)
cmdline ? boolean
Install with cmdline instead of text mode.
eula ? boolean
Agree with EULA. (EL7.0+)
init_spma_ignore_deps ? boolean
Ignore errors from dependencies during initial spma run.
firewall
See below
xwindows
See below
logging
See below
Anaconda allows for some limited IPtables configuration for the installation. The structure that describes this configuration has the following fields:
enabled : boolean
Whether or not the firewall must be enabled.
trusted ? string[]
List of trusted devices. Traffic from and to these devices will not be filtered.
enable_service : string[]
List of service names to be allowed by the firewall.
ports : long[]
List of ports to be opened on the host. Defaults to 7777 (Quattor notifications).
All paths are relative to /system/aii/osinstall/ks/firewall
Also, X server can be configured by AII. The options are:
card ? string
Driver for the graphic card, f.i: "nv".
monitor ? string
Monitor description.
noprobe ? string
Do not probe the monitor.
vsync ? long
Monitor vertical sync frequency.
hsync ? long
Monitor horizontal refresh.
defaultdesktop : string
KDE or GNOME.
resolution : string
Default screen resolution, f.i: "1024x768".
videoram ? long
Video card RAM.
startxonboot : boolean
Start GDM on boot. Defaults to true.
depth : long
Default color depth, in bits. Defaults to 24.
All paths are relative to /system/aii/osinstall/ks/logging
Two logging paths exist: the Anaconda logging via an Anaconda syslog and one specific to the logs produced by the AII scripts in %pre, %post and post-reboot.
For the Anaconda syslog, one can set the remote host and port, and optional loglevel, but not the used protocol. For SL versions < 7, UDP is implied, for versions >= 7 TCP is used.
The logs produced by AII scripts can be send to the console and to the same remote syslog server as used by the Anaconda syslog. For the remote logging of the AII logs, the protocol can be chosen (and should probably match the one used by the Anaconda syslog).
host : string
The remote syslog server name used by Anaconda syslog (and optional AII remote scripts logging).
port : integer
The portnumber of the remote syslog server used by Anaconda syslog (and optional AII remote scripts logging).
level : string
The Anaconda syslog level that send to the remote server. Level can be one of
debug,info,warning,errororcritical.console : boolean
Redirect the AII script logs to the console. (This is the default if this boolean if not defined).
send_aiilogs : boolean
Send or do not send the AII script logs to the remote host
method : string
Method that is used to send the AII script logs to the remote server. Has to be either
netcatorbash. For SL 7>= bash should be used, for lower versions, netcat should be used (although bash might work too).protocol : string
Protocol that is used to send the AII script logs to the remote server. Has to be either
udportcp. Ideally this is equal to the the protocol that Anaconda syslog uses: for SL 7>= tcp should be used, for lower versions, udp should be used.
AII_OSINSTALL_SRV : string
Fully qualified name of the server that contains the Linux distribution (usually a copy of the Linux CDs).
AII_KS_SRV : string
FQDN of the server that holds the Kickstart file for this node. Defaults to AII_OSINSTALL_SRV.
AII_CDB_SRV : string
FQDN of the server holding the profile.
AII_OSINSTALL_PROTOCOL : string
Protocol to be used for the installation. Must be either "http", "ftp" or "nfs".
AII_OSINSTALL_PATH : string
Path part of the URL that locates the Linux image for the installation.
AII_OSINSTALL_ROOT ? string
Top directory of the Linux images to be used during the installation. AII_OSINSTALL_PATH can be compound by concatenating AII_OSINSTALL_ROOT, AII_OSINSTALL_OS_VERSION and AII_OSINSTALL_SUBURL.
AII_OSINSTALL_OS_VERSION ? string
Linux image to be used, e.g: "sl44-i386", if the path part of the URL is "/foo/si44-i386/".
AII_OSINSTALL_SUBURL ? string
Sub-directories inside AII_OSINSTALL_ROOT/AII_OSINSTALL_OS_VERSION where the Linux image must be found.
AII_OSINSTALL_SELINUX : string
Selinux status after the first reboot. Must be either "disabled", "enforcing" or "permissive". Defaults to "disabled".
AII_OSINSTALL_OPTION_LANG : string
Language during the installation process. Defaults to "en_US".
AII_OSINSTALL_OPTION_LANG_SUPP : string[]
List of languages to be installed during the installation process. By default, only AII_OSINSTALL_OPTION_LANG will be installed.
AII_OSINSTALL_OPTION_KEYBOARD : string
Keyboard layout to be used during the installation. Defaults to "us".
AII_OSINSTALL_OPTION_MOUSE : string
Mouse specification. Defaults to "none".
AII_OSINSTALL_OPTION_TIMEZONE : string
System's time zone. Defaults to "Europe/Paris".
AII_OSINSTALL_ROOTPW : string
Root password to be used during the installation phase. By default, it's the same as in the production phase (the value specified by the accounts component).
AII_OSINSTALL_OPTION_CLEARMBR : boolean
Whether or not clear the disk's MBR.
AII_OSINSTALL_OPTION_BOOTLOADER : string
Bootloader location. Must be either "mbr", "partition" or "none". Default is "mbr".
AII_OSINSTALL_OPTION_CLEARPART : string[]
List of disks whose partition tables must be destroyed before the installation (or re-installation). For backwards compatibility, it defaults to all disks in the system (fully, destructive re-installation).
AII_OSINSTALL_BOOTPROTO : string
How to configure the network during the install phase. Must be either "static" for static network configurations or "dhcp" for configuring the network via DHCP.
AII_OSINSTALL_OPTION_AUTH : string[]
List of options for the authorization system. By default, sha512 shadowed passwords are enabled, this is
list ("enableshadow", "passalgo=sha512")AII_OSINSTALL_OPTION_FIREWALL ? firewal
Firewall structure, as described in section "Firewall configuration".
AII_OSINSTALL_PACKAGES : string[]
List of packages to be installed by Anaconda. Anaconda will check and fullfill the dependencies of the packages listed here.
AII_ACK_SRV : string
The server where the acknowledgement CGI is located. Defaults to AII_OSINSTALL_SRV.
AII_ACK_CGI : string
Path to the AII acknowledgement CGI. Defaults to "/cgi-bin/aii-installack.cgi"
AII_USE_CCM : boolean
Defaults to true.
AII_PROFILE_PATH : string
Server directory holding the node profile. Defaults to "/profiles".
AII_OSINSTALL_NODEPROFILE : string
Full URL for the node's profile. It is derived from other profile values or variables.
AII_OSINSTALL_EXTRAPKGS : string[]
List of package names to be installed before rebooting. Place here Xen or OpenVZ kernels, or mkinitrd packages needed by them.
AII_OSINSTALL_IGNOREDISKS : string[]
List of disks to be ignored at installation time.
aii-hooks(8) describes how to write a hook to add your own scripts to the generated kickstart files.
aii(8), aii-shellfe(8), aii-hooks(8)
Luis Fernando Muñoz Mejías <luisf.munnoz@uam.es>, Ronald Starink <ronalds@nikhef.nl>
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