Start the YaST profile manager via the YaST control center (Figure 15.1, “YaST SCPM Options”. In , determine whether progress pop-ups should be closed automatically and whether to display verbose messages about the progress of your SCPM configuration. For , determine whether modified resources of the active profile should be saved or discarded when the profile is switched. If is set to , all changes in the active profile are saved when switched. To define the behavior of SCPM at boot time, set to (default setting) or to .
+ ). On first start, explicitly enable SCPM by selecting in the dialog, shown in
To make changes to the current resource configuration, choose
Figure 15.2, “Resource Group Configuration”),
lists all resource groups available on your
system. To add or edit a resource
group, specify or modify and
. For an LDAP service, for example, enter
ldap
as and
LDAP client service
as
. Then enter the appropriate
resources (services,
configuration files, or both) or modify the existing ones. Delete those
that are not used. To reset the status of the selected
resources—discard any changes made to them and return to the
initial configuration values—choose . Your
changes are saved to the active profile.
To create a new profile, click
in the start dialog ( ). In the window that opens, select whether the new profile should be based on the current system configuration (SCPM automatically retrieves the current configuration and writes it to your profile) or on an existing profile. If you use the current system configuration as the base of the new profile, you can mark the new profile as the new active profile. This makes no changes to the old profile and does not start or stop any services.Provide a name and a short description for the new profile in the following dialog. For SCPM to execute special scripts on a switch of profiles, enter the paths to each executable (see Figure 15.3, “Special Profile Settings”). Refer to Section 15.2.4, “Advanced Profile Settings” for more information. SCPM runs a check for the resources of the new profile. After this test has been successfully completed, the new profile is ready for use.
To modify an existing profile, choose
in the start dialog ( ). Then modify name, description, scripts, and resources according to your needs.To switch profiles, open the profile manager. The active profile is marked with an arrow. Select the profile to which to switch and click
. SCPM checks for new or modified resources and adds them, if necessary.If a resource has been modified, YaST opens the
dialog. lists all resource groups of the active profile that have been modified but not yet saved to the active profile. for the currently selected resource group determines whether changes to this resource group should be saved to the active profile or discarded. Alternatively, select each resource and click to analyze the changes in detail. This shows a list of all configuration files or executables belonging to this resource group that have been modified. To get a line-by-line comparison of the old and new version, click . After having analyzed the changes, decide what to do with them in :Save this resource to the active profile, but leave all other profiles untouched.
Leave the active resource untouched. This change is discarded.
Copy the entire configuration of this resource to all other profiles.
Apply only the most recent changes to all profiles.
just saves or discards the changes of all resources shown in this dialog.
After confirming the changes to the active profile, leave the
dialog by clicking . SCPM then switches to the new profile. While switching, it executes the prestop and poststop scripts of the old profile and the prestart and poststart scripts for the new profile.