Linux Fomula

Linux Operating Systems:

• Ubuntu
• CentOS
• RedHat
• Fedora
• Arch

Sample Pillars

Linux System

Basic Linux box

linux:
  system:
    enabled: true
    name: 'node1'
    domain: 'domain.com'
    cluster: 'system'
    environment: prod
    timezone: 'Europe/Prague'
    utc: true

Linux with system users, some with password set:

Warning

If no password variable is passed, any predifined password will be removed.

linux:
  system:
    ...
    user:
      jdoe:
        name: 'jdoe'
        enabled: true
        sudo: true
        shell: /bin/bash
        full_name: 'Jonh Doe'
        home: '/home/jdoe'
        home_dir_mode: 755
        email: '[email protected]'
        unique: false
      jsmith:
        name: 'jsmith'
        enabled: true
        full_name: 'With clear password'
        home: '/home/jsmith'
        hash_password: true
        password: "userpassword"
      mark:
        name: 'mark'
        enabled: true
        full_name: "unchange password'
        home: '/home/mark'
        password: false
      elizabeth:
        name: 'elizabeth'
        enabled: true
        full_name: 'With hased password'
        home: '/home/elizabeth'
        password: "$6$nUI7QEz3$dFYjzQqK5cJ6HQ38KqG4gTWA9eJu3aKx6TRVDFh6BVJxJgFWg2akfAA7f1fCxcSUeOJ2arCO6EEI6XXnHXxG10"

Configure password expiration parameters

The following login.defs parameters can be overridden per-user:

• PASS_MAX_DAYS
• PASS_MIN_DAYS
• PASS_WARN_DAYS
• INACTIVE

linux:
  system:
    ...
    user:
      jdoe:
        name: 'jdoe'
        enabled: true
        ...
        maxdays: <PASS_MAX_DAYS>
        mindays: <PASS_MIN_DAYS>
        warndays: <PASS_WARN_DAYS>
        inactdays: <INACTIVE>

Configure sudo for users and groups under /etc/sudoers.d/. This ways linux.system.sudo pillar map to actual sudo attributes:

# simplified template:
Cmds_Alias {{ alias }}={{ commands }}
{{ user }}   {{ hosts }}=({{ runas }}) NOPASSWD: {{ commands }}
%{{ group }} {{ hosts }}=({{ runas }}) NOPASSWD: {{ commands }}

# when rendered:
saltuser1 ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

linux:
  system:
    sudo:
      enabled: true
      aliases:
        host:
          LOCAL:
          - localhost
          PRODUCTION:
          - db1
          - db2
        runas:
          DBA:
          - postgres
          - mysql
          SALT:
          - root
        command:
          # Note: This is not 100% safe when ALL keyword is used, user still may modify configs and hide his actions.
          #       Best practice is to specify full list of commands user is allowed to run.
          SUPPORT_RESTRICTED:
          - /bin/vi /etc/sudoers*
          - /bin/vim /etc/sudoers*
          - /bin/nano /etc/sudoers*
          - /bin/emacs /etc/sudoers*
          - /bin/su - root
          - /bin/su -
          - /bin/su
          - /usr/sbin/visudo
          SUPPORT_SHELLS:
          - /bin/sh
          - /bin/ksh
          - /bin/bash
          - /bin/rbash
          - /bin/dash
          - /bin/zsh
          - /bin/csh
          - /bin/fish
          - /bin/tcsh
          - /usr/bin/login
          - /usr/bin/su
          - /usr/su
          ALL_SALT_SAFE:
          - /usr/bin/salt state*
          - /usr/bin/salt service*
          - /usr/bin/salt pillar*
          - /usr/bin/salt grains*
          - /usr/bin/salt saltutil*
          - /usr/bin/salt-call state*
          - /usr/bin/salt-call service*
          - /usr/bin/salt-call pillar*
          - /usr/bin/salt-call grains*
          - /usr/bin/salt-call saltutil*
          SALT_TRUSTED:
          - /usr/bin/salt*
      users:
        # saltuser1 with default values: saltuser1 ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
        saltuser1: {}
        saltuser2:
          hosts:
          - LOCAL
        # User Alias DBA
        DBA:
          hosts:
          - ALL
          commands:
          - ALL_SALT_SAFE
      groups:
        db-ops:
          hosts:
          - ALL
          - '!PRODUCTION'
          runas:
          - DBA
          commands:
          - /bin/cat *
          - /bin/less *
          - /bin/ls *
        salt-ops:
          hosts:
          - 'ALL'
          runas:
          - SALT
          commands:
          - SUPPORT_SHELLS
        salt-ops-2nd:
          name: salt-ops
          nopasswd: false
          setenv: true # Enable sudo -E option
          runas:
          - DBA
          commands:
          - ALL
          - '!SUPPORT_SHELLS'
          - '!SUPPORT_RESTRICTED'

Linux with package, latest version:

linux:
  system:
    ...
    package:
      package-name:
        version: latest

Linux with package from certail repo, version with no upgrades:

linux:
  system:
    ...
    package:
      package-name:
        version: 2132.323
        repo: 'custom-repo'
        hold: true

Linux with package from certail repo, version with no GPG verification:

linux:
  system:
    ...
    package:
      package-name:
        version: 2132.323
        repo: 'custom-repo'
        verify: false

Linux with autoupdates (automatically install security package updates):

linux:
  system:
    ...
    autoupdates:
      enabled: true
      mail: root@localhost
      mail_only_on_error: true
      remove_unused_dependencies: false
      automatic_reboot: true
      automatic_reboot_time: "02:00"

Managing cron tasks

There are two data structures that are related to managing cron itself and cron tasks:

linux:
  system:
    cron:

and

linux:
  system:
    job:

linux:system:cron manages cron packages, services, and '/etc/cron.allow' file.

'deny' files are managed the only way - we're ensuring they are absent, that's a requirement from CIS 5.1.8

'cron' pillar structure is the following:

linux:
  system:
    cron:
      enabled: true
      pkgs: [ <cron packages> ]
      services: [ <cron services> ]
      user:
        <username>:
          enabled: true

To add user to '/etc/cron.allow' use 'enabled' key as shown above.

'/etc/cron.deny' is not managed as CIS 5.1.8 requires it was removed.

A user would be ignored if any of the following is true: * user is disabled in linux:system:user:<username> * user is disabled in linux:system:cron:user:<username>

linux:system:job manages individual cron tasks.

By default, it will use name as an identifier, unless identifier key is explicitly set or False (then it will use Salt's default behavior which is identifier same as command resulting in not being able to change it):

linux:
  system:
    ...
    job:
      cmd1:
        command: '/cmd/to/run'
        identifier: cmd1
        enabled: true
        user: 'root'
        hour: 2
        minute: 0

Managing 'at' tasks

Pillar for managing at tasks is similar to one for cron tasks:

linux:
  system:
    at:
      enabled: true
      pkgs: [ <at packages> ]
      services: [ <at services> ]
      user:
        <username>:
          enabled: true

To add a user to '/etc/at.allow' use 'enabled' key as shown above.

'/etc/at.deny' is not managed as CIS 5.1.8 requires it was removed.

A user will be ignored if any of the following is true: * user is disabled in linux:system:user:<username> * user is disabled in linux:system:at:user:<username>

Linux security limits (limit sensu user memory usage to max 1GB):

linux:
  system:
    ...
    limit:
      sensu:
        enabled: true
        domain: sensu
        limits:
          - type: hard
            item: as
            value: 1000000

Enable autologin on tty1 (may work only for Ubuntu 14.04):

linux:
  system:
    console:
      tty1:
        autologin: root
      # Enable serial console
      ttyS0:
        autologin: root
        rate: 115200
        term: xterm

To disable set autologin to false.

Set policy-rc.d on Debian-based systems. Action can be any available command in while true loop and case context. Following will disallow dpkg to stop/start services for the Cassandra package automatically:

linux:
  system:
    policyrcd:
      - package: cassandra
        action: exit 101
      - package: '*'
        action: switch

Set system locales:

linux:
  system:
    locale:
      en_US.UTF-8:
        default: true
      "cs_CZ.UTF-8 UTF-8":
        enabled: true

Systemd settings:

linux:
  system:
    ...
    systemd:
      system:
        Manager:
          DefaultLimitNOFILE: 307200
          DefaultLimitNPROC: 307200
      user:
        Manager:
          DefaultLimitCPU: 2
          DefaultLimitNPROC: 4

Ensure presence of directory:

linux:
  system:
    directory:
      /tmp/test:
        user: root
        group: root
        mode: 700
        makedirs: true

Ensure presence of file by specifying its source:

linux:
  system:
    file:
      /tmp/test.txt:
        source: http://example.com/test.txt
        user: root #optional
        group: root #optional
        mode: 700 #optional
        dir_mode: 700 #optional
        encoding: utf-8 #optional
        hash: <<hash>> or <<URI to hash>> #optional
        makedirs: true #optional

linux:
  system:
    file:
      test.txt:
        name: /tmp/test.txt
        source: http://example.com/test.txt

linux:
  system:
    file:
      test2:
        name: /tmp/test2.txt
        source: http://example.com/test2.jinja
        template: jinja

Ensure presence of file by specifying its contents:

linux:
  system:
    file:
      /tmp/test.txt:
        contents: |
          line1
          line2

linux:
  system:
    file:
      /tmp/test.txt:
        contents_pillar: linux:network:hostname

linux:
  system:
    file:
      /tmp/test.txt:
        contents_grains: motd

Ensure presence of file to be serialized through one of the serializer modules (see: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/serializers/all/index.html):

linux:
  system:
    file:
      /tmp/test.json:
        serialize: json
        contents:
          foo: 1
          bar: 'bar'

Kernel

Install always up to date LTS kernel and headers from Ubuntu Trusty:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      type: generic
      lts: trusty
      headers: true

Load kernel modules and add them to /etc/modules:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      modules:
        - nf_conntrack
        - tp_smapi
        - 8021q

Configure or blacklist kernel modules with additional options to /etc/modprobe.d following example will add /etc/modprobe.d/nf_conntrack.conf file with line options nf_conntrack hashsize=262144:

'option' can be a mapping (with 'enabled' and 'value' keys) or a scalar.

Example for 'scalar' option value:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      module:
        nf_conntrack:
          option:
            hashsize: 262144

Example for 'mapping' option value:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      module:
        nf_conntrack:
          option:
            hashsize:
              enabled: true
              value: 262144

NOTE: 'enabled' key is optional and is True by default.

Blacklist a module:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      module:
        nf_conntrack:
          blacklist: true

A module can have a number of aliases, wildcards are allowed. Define an alias for a module:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      module:
        nf_conntrack:
          alias:
            nfct:
              enabled: true
            "nf_conn*":
              enabled: true

NOTE: 'enabled' key is mandatory as there are no other keys exist.

Execute custom command instead of 'insmod' when inserting a module:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      module:
        nf_conntrack:
          install:
            enabled: true
            command: /bin/true

NOTE: 'enabled' key is optional and is True by default.

Execute custom command instead of 'rmmod' when removing a module:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      module:
        nf_conntrack:
          remove:
            enabled: true
            command: /bin/true

NOTE: 'enabled' key is optional and is True by default.

Define module dependencies:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      module:
        nf_conntrack:
          softdep:
            pre:
              1:
                enabled: true
                value: a
              2:
                enabled: true
                value: b
              3:
                enabled: true
                value: c
            post:
              1:
                enabled: true
                value: x
              2:
                enabled: true
                value: y
              3:
                enabled: true
                value: z

NOTE: 'enabled' key is optional and is True by default.

Install specific kernel version and ensure all other kernel packages are not present. Also install extra modules and headers for this kernel:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      type: generic
      extra: true
      headers: true
      version: 4.2.0-22

Systcl kernel parameters:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      sysctl:
        net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl: 3
        net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time: 30
        net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes: 8

Configure kernel boot options:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      boot_options:
        - elevator=deadline
        - spectre_v2=off
        - nopti

Alternative way to set kernel boot options:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      transparent_hugepage: always
      elevator: deadline
      isolcpu: 1,2,3,4

CPU

Enable cpufreq governor for every cpu:

linux:
  system:
    cpu:
      governor: performance

SELinux

Set SELinux mode on System:

linux:
  system:
    selinux: permissive

CGROUPS

Setup linux cgroups:

linux:
  system:
    cgroup:
      enabled: true
      group:
        ceph_group_1:
          controller:
            cpu:
              shares:
                value: 250
            cpuacct:
              usage:
                value: 0
            cpuset:
              cpus:
                value: 1,2,3
            memory:
              limit_in_bytes:
                value: 2G
              memsw.limit_in_bytes:
                value: 3G
          mapping:
            subjects:
            - '@ceph'
        generic_group_1:
          controller:
            cpu:
              shares:
                value: 250
            cpuacct:
              usage:
                value: 0
          mapping:
            subjects:
            - '*:firefox'
            - 'student:cp'

Shared libraries

Set additional shared library to Linux system library path:

linux:
  system:
    ld:
      library:
        java:
          - /usr/lib/jvm/jre-openjdk/lib/amd64/server
          - /opt/java/jre/lib/amd64/server

Certificates

Add certificate authority into system trusted CA bundle:

linux:
  system:
    ca_certificates:
      mycert: |
        -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
        MIICPDCCAaUCEHC65B0Q2Sk0tjjKewPMur8wDQYJKoZIhvcNAQECBQAwXzELMAkG
        A1UEBhMCVVMxFzAVBgNVBAoTDlZlcmlTaWduLCBJbmMuMTcwNQYDVQQLEy5DbGFz
        cyAzIFB1YmxpYyBQcmltYXJ5IENlcnRpZmljYXRpb24gQXV0aG9yaXR5MB4XDTk2
        MDEyOTAwMDAwMFoXDTI4MDgwMTIzNTk1OVowXzELMAkGA1UEBhMCVVMxFzAVBgNV
        BAoTDlZlcmlTaWduLCBJbmMuMTcwNQYDVQQLEy5DbGFzcyAzIFB1YmxpYyBQcmlt
        YXJ5IENlcnRpZmljYXRpb24gQXV0aG9yaXR5MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GN
        ADCBiQKBgQDJXFme8huKARS0EN8EQNvjV69qRUCPhAwL0TPZ2RHP7gJYHyX3KqhE
        BarsAx94f56TuZoAqiN91qyFomNFx3InzPRMxnVx0jnvT0Lwdd8KkMaOIG+YD/is
        I19wKTakyYbnsZogy1Olhec9vn2a/iRFM9x2Fe0PonFkTGUugWhFpwIDAQABMA0G
        CSqGSIb3DQEBAgUAA4GBALtMEivPLCYATxQT3ab7/AoRhIzzKBxnki98tsX63/Do
        lbwdj2wsqFHMc9ikwFPwTtYmwHYBV4GSXiHx0bH/59AhWM1pF+NEHJwZRDmJXNyc
        AA9WjQKZ7aKQRUzkuxCkPfAyAw7xzvjoyVGM5mKf5p/AfbdynMk2OmufTqj/ZA1k
        -----END CERTIFICATE-----

Sysfs

Install sysfsutils and set sysfs attributes:

linux:
  system:
    sysfs:
      scheduler:
        block/sda/queue/scheduler: deadline
      power:
        mode:
          power/state: 0660
        owner:
          power/state: "root:power"
        devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor: powersave

Optional: You can also use list that will ensure order of items.

linux:
  system:
    sysfs:
      scheduler:
        block/sda/queue/scheduler: deadline
      power:
        - mode:
            power/state: 0660
        - owner:
            power/state: "root:power"
        - devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor: powersave

Sysfs definition with disabled automatic write. Attributes are saved to configuration, but are not applied during the run. Thay will be applied automatically after the reboot.

linux:
  system:
    sysfs:
      enable_apply: false
      scheduler:
        block/sda/queue/scheduler: deadline

Note

The enable_apply parameter defaults to True if not defined.

Huge Pages

Huge Pages give a performance boost to applications that intensively deal with memory allocation/deallocation by decreasing memory fragmentation:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      hugepages:
        small:
          size: 2M
          count: 107520
          mount_point: /mnt/hugepages_2MB
          mount: false/true # default is true (mount immediately) / false (just save in the fstab)
        large:
          default: true # default automatically mounted
          size: 1G
          count: 210
          mount_point: /mnt/hugepages_1GB

Note

Not recommended to use both pagesizes concurrently.

Intel SR-IOV

PCI-SIG Single Root I/O Virtualization and Sharing (SR-IOV) specification defines a standardized mechanism to virtualize PCIe devices. The mechanism can virtualize a single PCIe Ethernet controller to appear as multiple PCIe devices:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      sriov: True
      unsafe_interrupts: False # Default is false. for older platforms and AMD we need to add interrupt remapping workaround
    rc:
      local: |
        #!/bin/sh -e
        # Enable 7 VF on eth1
        echo 7 > /sys/class/net/eth1/device/sriov_numvfs; sleep 2; ifup -a
        exit 0

Isolate CPU options

Remove the specified CPUs, as defined by the cpu_number values, from the general kernel SMP balancing and scheduler algroithms. The only way to move a process onto or off an isolated CPU is via the CPU affinity syscalls. cpu_number begins at 0, so the maximum value is 1 less than the number of CPUs on the system.:

linux:
  system:
    kernel:
      isolcpu: 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 # isolate first cpu 0

Repositories

RedHat-based Linux with additional OpenStack repo:

linux:
  system:
    ...
    repo:
      rdo-icehouse:
        enabled: true
        source: 'http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/openstack/openstack-icehouse/epel-6/'
        pgpcheck: 0

Ensure system repository to use czech Debian mirror (default: true) Also pin it's packages with priority 900:

linux:
  system:
    repo:
      debian:
        default: true
        source: "deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free"
        # Import signing key from URL if needed
        key_url: "http://dummy.com/public.gpg"
        pin:
          - pin: 'origin "ftp.cz.debian.org"'
            priority: 900
            package: '*'

If you need to add multiple pin rules for one repo, please use new,ordered definition format ('pinning' definition will be in priotity to use):

linux:
  system:
    repo:
      mcp_saltstack:
        source: "deb [arch=amd64] http://repo.saltstack.com/apt/ubuntu/16.04/amd64/2017.7/ xenial main"
        architectures: amd64
        clean_file: true
        pinning:
          10:
            enabled: true
            pin: 'release o=SaltStack'
            priority: 50
            package: 'libsodium18'
          20:
            enabled: true
            pin: 'release o=SaltStack'
            priority: 1100
            package: '*'

Note

For old Ubuntu releases (<xenial) extra packages for apt transport, like apt-transport-https may be required to be installed manually. (Chicken-eggs issue: we need to install packages to reach repo from where they should be installed) Otherwise, you still can try 'fortune' and install prereq.packages before any repo configuration, using list of requires in map.jinja.

Disabling any prerequisite packages installation:

You can simply drop any package pre-installation (before system.linux.repo will be processed) via cluster lvl:

linux:
  system:
    pkgs: ~

Package manager proxy global setup:

linux:
  system:
    ...
    repo:
      apt-mk:
        source: "deb http://apt-mk.mirantis.com/ stable main salt"
    ...
    proxy:
      pkg:
        enabled: true
        ftp:   ftp://ftp-proxy-for-apt.host.local:2121
      ...
      # NOTE: Global defaults for any other componet that configure proxy on the system.
      #       If your environment has just one simple proxy, set it on linux:system:proxy.
      #
      # fall back system defaults if linux:system:proxy:pkg has no protocol specific entries
      # as for https and http
      ftp:   ftp://proxy.host.local:2121
      http:  http://proxy.host.local:3142
      https: https://proxy.host.local:3143

Package manager proxy setup per repository:

linux:
  system:
    ...
    repo:
      debian:
        source: "deb http://apt-mk.mirantis.com/ stable main salt"
    ...
      apt-mk:
        source: "deb http://apt-mk.mirantis.com/ stable main salt"
        # per repository proxy
        proxy:
          enabled: true
          http:  http://maas-01:8080
          https: http://maas-01:8080
    ...
    proxy:
      # package manager fallback defaults
      # used if linux:system:repo:apt-mk:proxy has no protocol specific entries
      pkg:
        enabled: true
        ftp:   ftp://proxy.host.local:2121
        #http:  http://proxy.host.local:3142
        #https: https://proxy.host.local:3143
      ...
      # global system fallback system defaults
      ftp:   ftp://proxy.host.local:2121
      http:  http://proxy.host.local:3142
      https: https://proxy.host.local:3143

Remove all repositories:

linux:
  system:
    purge_repos: true

Refresh repositories metada, after configuration:

linux:
  system:
    refresh_repos_meta: true

Setup custom apt config options:

linux:
  system:
    apt:
      config:
        compression-workaround:
          "Acquire::CompressionTypes::Order": "gz"
        docker-clean:
          "DPkg::Post-Invoke":
            - "rm -f /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/*.deb /var/cache/apt/*.bin || true"
          "APT::Update::Post-Invoke":
            - "rm -f /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/*.deb /var/cache/apt/*.bin || true"

RC

rc.local example

linux:
  system:
    rc:
      local: |
        #!/bin/sh -e
        #
        # rc.local
        #
        # This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
        # Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
        # value on error.
        #
        # In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
        # bits.
        #
        # By default this script does nothing.
        exit 0

Prompt

Setting prompt is implemented by creating /etc/profile.d/prompt.sh. Every user can have different prompt:

linux:
  system:
    prompt:
      root: \\n\\[\\033[0;37m\\]\\D{%y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S} $(hostname -f)\\[\\e[0m\\]\\n\\[\\e[1;31m\\][\\u@\\h:\\w]\\[\\e[0m\\]
      default: \\n\\D{%y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S} $(hostname -f)\\n[\\u@\\h:\\w]

On Debian systems, to set prompt system-wide, it's necessary to remove setting PS1 in /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, which comes from /etc/skel/.bashrc. This formula will do this automatically, but will not touch existing user's ~/.bashrc files except root.

Bash

Fix bash configuration to preserve history across sessions like ZSH does by default:

linux:
  system:
    bash:
      preserve_history: true

Login banner message

/etc/issue is a text file which contains a message or system identification to be printed before the login prompt. It may contain various @char and char sequences, if supported by the getty-type program employed on the system.

Setting logon banner message is easy:

liunx:
  system:
    banner:
      enabled: true
      contents: |
        UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO THIS SYSTEM IS PROHIBITED

        You must have explicit, authorized permission to access or configure this
        device. Unauthorized attempts and actions to access or use this system may
        result in civil and/or criminal penalties.
        All activities performed on this system are logged and monitored.

Message of the day

pam_motd from package libpam-modules is used for dynamic messages of the day. Setting custom motd will clean up existing ones.

Setting static motd will replace existing /etc/motd and remove scripts from /etc/update-motd.d.

Setting static motd:

linux:
  system:
    motd: |
      UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO THIS SYSTEM IS PROHIBITED

      You must have explicit, authorized permission to access or configure this
      device. Unauthorized attempts and actions to access or use this system may
      result in civil and/or criminal penalties.
      All activities performed on this system are logged and monitored.

Setting dynamic motd:

linux:
  system:
    motd:
      - release: |
          #!/bin/sh
          [ -r /etc/lsb-release ] && . /etc/lsb-release

          if [ -z "$DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION" ] && [ -x /usr/bin/lsb_release ]; then
            # Fall back to using the very slow lsb_release utility
            DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION=$(lsb_release -s -d)
          fi

          printf "Welcome to %s (%s %s %s)\n" "$DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION" "$(uname -o)" "$(uname -r)" "$(uname -m)"
      - warning: |
          #!/bin/sh
          printf "This is [company name] network.\n"
          printf "Unauthorized access strictly prohibited.\n"

Services

Stop and disable the linux service:

linux:
  system:
    service:
      apt-daily.timer:
        status: dead

Possible statuses are dead (disable service by default), running (enable service by default), enabled, disabled:

Linux with the atop service:

linux:
  system:
    atop:
      enabled: true
      interval: 20
      logpath: "/var/log/atop"
      outfile: "/var/log/atop/daily.log"

Linux with the mcelog service:

linux:
  system:
    mcelog:
      enabled: true
      logging:
        syslog: true
        syslog_error: true

RHEL / CentOS

Currently, update-motd is not available for RHEL. So there is no native support for dynamic motd. You can still set a static one, with a different pillar structure:

linux:
  system:
    motd: |
      This is [company name] network.
      Unauthorized access strictly prohibited.

Haveged

If you are running headless server and are low on entropy, you may set up Haveged:

linux:
  system:
    haveged:
      enabled: true

Linux network

Linux with network manager:

linux:
  network:
    enabled: true
    network_manager: true

Execute linux.network.interface state without ifupdown activity:

salt-call linux.network.interface pillar='{"linux":{"network":{"noifupdown":True}}}'

Linux with default static network interfaces, default gateway interface and DNS servers:

linux:
  network:
    enabled: true
    interface:
      eth0:
        enabled: true
        type: eth
        address: 192.168.0.102
        netmask: 255.255.255.0
        gateway: 192.168.0.1
        name_servers:
        - 8.8.8.8
        - 8.8.4.4
        mtu: 1500

Linux with bonded interfaces and disabled NetworkManager:

linux:
  network:
    enabled: true
    interface:
      eth0:
        type: eth
        ...
      eth1:
        type: eth
        ...
      bond0:
        enabled: true
        type: bond
        address: 192.168.0.102
        netmask: 255.255.255.0
        mtu: 1500
        use_in:
        - interface: ${linux:interface:eth0}
        - interface: ${linux:interface:eth0}
    network_manager:
      disable: true

Linux with VLAN interface_params:

linux:
  network:
    enabled: true
    interface:
      vlan69:
        type: vlan
        use_interfaces:
        - interface: ${linux:interface:bond0}

Linux with wireless interface parameters:

linux:
  network:
    enabled: true
    gateway: 10.0.0.1
    default_interface: eth0
    interface:
      wlan0:
        type: eth
        wireless:
          essid: example
          key: example_key
          security: wpa
          priority: 1

Linux networks with routes defined:

linux:
  network:
    enabled: true
    gateway: 10.0.0.1
    default_interface: eth0
    interface:
      eth0:
        type: eth
        route:
          default:
            address: 192.168.0.123
            netmask: 255.255.255.0
            gateway: 192.168.0.1

Native Linux Bridges:

linux:
  network:
    interface:
      eth1:
        enabled: true
        type: eth
        proto: manual
        up_cmds:
        - ip address add 0/0 dev $IFACE
        - ip link set $IFACE up
        down_cmds:
        - ip link set $IFACE down
      br-ex:
        enabled: true
        type: bridge
        address: ${linux:network:host:public_local:address}
        netmask: 255.255.255.0
        use_interfaces:
        - eth1

Open vSwitch Bridges:

linux:
  network:
    bridge: openvswitch
    interface:
      eth1:
        enabled: true
        type: eth
        proto: manual
        up_cmds:
        - ip address add 0/0 dev $IFACE
        - ip link set $IFACE up
        down_cmds:
        - ip link set $IFACE down
      br-ex:
        enabled: true
        type: bridge
        address: ${linux:network:host:public_local:address}
        netmask: 255.255.255.0
        use_interfaces:
        - eth1
      br-prv:
        enabled: true
        type: ovs_bridge
        mtu: 65000
      br-ens7:
        enabled: true
        name: br-ens7
        type: ovs_bridge
        proto: manual
        mtu: 9000
        use_interfaces:
        - ens7
      patch-br-ens7-br-prv:
        enabled: true
        name: ens7-prv
        ovs_type: ovs_port
        type: ovs_port
        bridge: br-ens7
        port_type: patch
        peer: prv-ens7
        tag: 109 # [] to unset a tag
        mtu: 65000
      patch-br-prv-br-ens7:
        enabled: true
        name: prv-ens7
        bridge: br-prv
        ovs_type: ovs_port
        type: ovs_port
        port_type: patch
        peer: ens7-prv
        tag: 109
        mtu: 65000
      ens7:
        enabled: true
        name: ens7
        proto: manual
        ovs_port_type: OVSPort
        type: ovs_port
        ovs_bridge: br-ens7
        bridge: br-ens7

Debian manual proto interfaces

When you are changing interface proto from static in up state to manual, you may need to flush ip addresses. For example, if you want to use the interface and the ip on the bridge. This can be done by setting the ipflush_onchange to true.

linux:
  network:
    interface:
      eth1:
        enabled: true
        type: eth
        proto: manual
        mtu: 9100
        ipflush_onchange: true

Debian static proto interfaces

When you are changing interface proto from dhcp in up state to static, you may need to flush ip addresses and restart interface to assign ip address from a managed file. For example, if you wantto use the interface and the ip on the bridge. This can be done by setting the ipflush_onchange with combination restart_on_ipflush param set to true.

linux:
  network:
    interface:
      eth1:
        enabled: true
        type: eth
        proto: static
        address: 10.1.0.22
        netmask: 255.255.255.0
        ipflush_onchange: true
        restart_on_ipflush: true

Concatinating and removing interface files

Debian based distributions have /etc/network/interfaces.d/ directory, where you can store configuration of network interfaces in separate files. You can concatinate the files to the defined destination when needed, this operation removes the file from the /etc/network/interfaces.d/. If you just need to remove iface files, you can use the remove_iface_files key.

linux:
  network:
    concat_iface_files:
    - src: '/etc/network/interfaces.d/50-cloud-init.cfg'
      dst: '/etc/network/interfaces'
    remove_iface_files:
    - '/etc/network/interfaces.d/90-custom.cfg'

Configure DHCP client

None of the keys is mandatory, include only those you really need. For full list of available options under send, supersede, prepend, append refer to dhcp-options(5).

linux:
  network:
    dhclient:
      enabled: true
      backoff_cutoff: 15
      initial_interval: 10
      reboot: 10
      retry: 60
      select_timeout: 0
      timeout: 120
      send:
        - option: host-name
          declaration: "= gethostname()"
      supersede:
        - option: host-name
          declaration: "spaceship"
        - option: domain-name
          declaration: "domain.home"
        #- option: arp-cache-timeout
        #  declaration: 20
      prepend:
        - option: domain-name-servers
          declaration:
            - 8.8.8.8
            - 8.8.4.4
        - option: domain-search
          declaration:
            - example.com
            - eng.example.com
      #append:
        #- option: domain-name-servers
        #  declaration: 127.0.0.1
      # ip or subnet to reject dhcp offer from
      reject:
        - 192.33.137.209
        - 10.0.2.0/24
      request:
        - subnet-mask
        - broadcast-address
        - time-offset
        - routers
        - domain-name
        - domain-name-servers
        - domain-search
        - host-name
        - dhcp6.name-servers
        - dhcp6.domain-search
        - dhcp6.fqdn
        - dhcp6.sntp-servers
        - netbios-name-servers
        - netbios-scope
        - interface-mtu
        - rfc3442-classless-static-routes
        - ntp-servers
      require:
        - subnet-mask
        - domain-name-servers
      # if per interface configuration required add below
      interface:
        ens2:
          initial_interval: 11
          reject:
            - 192.33.137.210
        ens3:
          initial_interval: 12
          reject:
            - 192.33.137.211

Linux network systemd settings:

linux:
  network:
    ...
    systemd:
      link:
        10-iface-dmz:
          Match:
            MACAddress: c8:5b:67:fa:1a:af
            OriginalName: eth0
          Link:
            Name: dmz0
      netdev:
        20-bridge-dmz:
          match:
            name: dmz0
          network:
            mescription: bridge
            bridge: br-dmz0
      network:
      # works with lowercase, keys are by default capitalized
        40-dhcp:
          match:
            name: '*'
          network:
            DHCP: yes

Configure global environment variables

Use /etc/environment for static system wide variable assignment after boot. Variable expansion is frequently not supported.

linux:
  system:
    env:
      BOB_VARIABLE: Alice
      ...
      BOB_PATH:
        - /srv/alice/bin
        - /srv/bob/bin
      ...
      ftp_proxy:   none
      http_proxy:  http://global-http-proxy.host.local:8080
      https_proxy: ${linux:system:proxy:https}
      no_proxy:
        - 192.168.0.80
        - 192.168.1.80
        - .domain.com
        - .local
    ...
    # NOTE: global defaults proxy configuration.
    proxy:
      ftp:   ftp://proxy.host.local:2121
      http:  http://proxy.host.local:3142
      https: https://proxy.host.local:3143
      noproxy:
        - .domain.com
        - .local

Configure the profile.d scripts

The profile.d scripts are being sourced during .sh execution and support variable expansion in opposite to /etc/environment global settings in /etc/environment.

linux:
  system:
    profile:
      locales: |
        export LANG=C
        export LC_ALL=C
      ...
      vi_flavors.sh: |
        export PAGER=view
        export EDITOR=vim
        alias vi=vim
      shell_locales.sh: |
        export LANG=en_US
        export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
      shell_proxies.sh: |
        export FTP_PROXY=ftp://127.0.3.3:2121
        export NO_PROXY='.local'

Configure login.defs parameters

linux:
  system:
    login_defs:
      <opt_name>:
        enabled: true
        value: <opt_value>

<opt_name> is a configurational option defined in 'man login.defs'. <opt_name> is case sensitive, should be UPPERCASE only!

Linux with hosts

Parameter purge_hosts will enforce whole /etc/hosts file, removing entries that are not defined in model except defaults for both IPv4 and IPv6 localhost and hostname as well as FQDN.

We recommend using this option to verify that /etc/hosts is always in a clean state. However it is not enabled by default for security reasons.

linux:
  network:
    purge_hosts: true
    host:
      # No need to define this one if purge_hosts is true
      hostname:
        address: 127.0.1.1
        names:
        - ${linux:network:fqdn}
        - ${linux:network:hostname}
      node1:
        address: 192.168.10.200
        names:
        - node2.domain.com
        - service2.domain.com
      node2:
        address: 192.168.10.201
        names:
        - node2.domain.com
        - service2.domain.com

Linux with hosts collected from mine

All DNS records defined within infrastrucuture are passed to the local hosts records or any DNS server. Only hosts with the grain parameter set to true will be propagated to the mine.

linux:
  network:
    purge_hosts: true
    mine_dns_records: true
    host:
      node1:
        address: 192.168.10.200
        grain: true
        names:
        - node2.domain.com
        - service2.domain.com

Set up resolv.conf, nameservers, domain and search domains:

linux:
  network:
    resolv:
      dns:
      - 8.8.4.4
      - 8.8.8.8
      domain: my.example.com
      search:
      - my.example.com
      - example.com
      options:
      - ndots: 5
      - timeout: 2
      - attempts: 2

Set up custom TX queue length for tap interfaces:

linux:
  network:
    tap_custom_txqueuelen: 10000

Open vSwitch native bond:

bond1:
  enabled: true
  type: ovs_bond
  mode: balance-slb
  bridge: br-ex
  slaves: eno3 eno4

DPDK OVS interfaces

DPDK OVS NIC

linux:
  network:
    bridge: openvswitch
    dpdk:
      enabled: true
      driver: uio/vfio
    openvswitch:
      pmd_cpu_mask: "0x6"
      dpdk_socket_mem: "1024,1024"
      dpdk_lcore_mask: "0x400"
      memory_channels: 2
    interface:
      dpkd0:
        name: ${_param:dpdk_nic}
        pci: 0000:06:00.0
        driver: igb_uio/vfio-pci
        enabled: true
        type: dpdk_ovs_port
        n_rxq: 2
        pmd_rxq_affinity: "0:1,1:2"
        bridge: br-prv
        mtu: 9000
      br-prv:
        enabled: true
        type: dpdk_ovs_bridge

DPDK OVS Bond

linux:
  network:
    bridge: openvswitch
    dpdk:
      enabled: true
      driver: uio/vfio
    openvswitch:
      pmd_cpu_mask: "0x6"
      dpdk_socket_mem: "1024,1024"
      dpdk_lcore_mask: "0x400"
      memory_channels: 2
    interface:
      dpdk_second_nic:
        name: ${_param:primary_second_nic}
        pci: 0000:06:00.0
        driver: igb_uio/vfio-pci
        bond: dpdkbond0
        enabled: true
        type: dpdk_ovs_port
        n_rxq: 2
        pmd_rxq_affinity: "0:1,1:2"
        mtu: 9000
      dpdk_first_nic:
        name: ${_param:primary_first_nic}
        pci: 0000:05:00.0
        driver: igb_uio/vfio-pci
        bond: dpdkbond0
        enabled: true
        type: dpdk_ovs_port
        n_rxq: 2
        pmd_rxq_affinity: "0:1,1:2"
        mtu: 9000
      dpdkbond0:
        enabled: true
        bridge: br-prv
        type: dpdk_ovs_bond
        mode: active-backup
      br-prv:
        enabled: true
        type: dpdk_ovs_bridge

DPDK OVS LACP Bond with vlan tag

linux:
  network:
    bridge: openvswitch
    dpdk:
      enabled: true
      driver: uio
    openvswitch:
      pmd_cpu_mask: "0x6"
      dpdk_socket_mem: "1024,1024"
      dpdk_lcore_mask: "0x400"
      memory_channels: "2"
    interface:
      eth3:
        enabled: true
        type: eth
        proto: manual
        name: ${_param:tenant_first_nic}
      eth4:
        enabled: true
        type: eth
        proto: manual
        name: ${_param:tenant_second_nic}
      dpdk0:
        name: ${_param:tenant_first_nic}
        pci: "0000:81:00.0"
        driver: igb_uio
        bond: bond1
        enabled: true
        type: dpdk_ovs_port
        n_rxq: 2
      dpdk1:
        name: ${_param:tenant_second_nic}
        pci: "0000:81:00.1"
        driver: igb_uio
        bond: bond1
        enabled: true
        type: dpdk_ovs_port
        n_rxq: 2
      bond1:
        enabled: true
        bridge: br-prv
        type: dpdk_ovs_bond
        mode: balance-slb
      br-prv:
        enabled: true
        type: dpdk_ovs_bridge
        tag: ${_param:tenant_vlan}
        address: ${_param:tenant_address}
        netmask: ${_param:tenant_network_netmask}

Linux Network Interface configuration

Configuration of network interface eth0 on RedHad. Parameter ipv6addrs used to bind ipv6 aliases to the network interface.

linux:
  network:
    ...
    interface:
      eth0:
        enabled: true
        type: eth
        address: 192.168.0.1
        netmask: 255.255.255.0
        gateway: 192.168.0.154
        name_servers:
          - 192.168.0.10
          - 192.168.0.11
        ipv6_address: fd8f:a45a:2ed2:d37c::7
        ipv6_netmask: 64
        ipv6_gateway: fd8f:a45a:2ed2:d37c::1
        ipv6addrs:
          - fd8f:a45a:2ed2:d37c:ffff:fffe/128
          - fd8f:a45a:2ed2:d37c:ffff:ffff/128

DPDK OVS bridge for VXLAN

If VXLAN is used as tenant segmentation, IP address must be set on br-prv.

linux:
  network:
    ...
    interface:
      br-prv:
        enabled: true
        type: dpdk_ovs_bridge
        address: 192.168.50.0
        netmask: 255.255.255.0
        tag: 101
        mtu: 9000

DPDK OVS bridge with Linux network interface

linux:
  network:
    ...
    interface:
      eth0:
        type: eth
        ovs_bridge: br-prv
        ...
      br-prv:
        enabled: true
        type: dpdk_ovs_bridge
        ...

Linux storage

Linux with mounted Samba:

linux:
  storage:
    enabled: true
    mount:
      samba1:
      - enabled: true
      - path: /media/myuser/public/
      - device: //192.168.0.1/storage
      - file_system: cifs
      - options: guest,uid=myuser,iocharset=utf8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777,noperm

NFS mount:

linux:
  storage:
    enabled: true
    mount:
      nfs_glance:
        enabled: true
        path: /var/lib/glance/images
        device: 172.16.10.110:/var/nfs/glance
        file_system: nfs
        opts: rw,sync

File swap configuration:

linux:
  storage:
    enabled: true
    swap:
      file:
        enabled: true
        engine: file
        device: /swapfile
        size: 1024

Partition swap configuration:

linux:
  storage:
    enabled: true
    swap:
      partition:
        enabled: true
        engine: partition
        device: /dev/vg0/swap

LVM group vg1 with one device and data volume mounted into /mnt/data.

parameters:
  linux:
    storage:
      mount:
        data:
          enabled: true
          device: /dev/vg1/data
          file_system: ext4
          path: /mnt/data
      lvm:
        vg1:
          enabled: true
          devices:
            - /dev/sdb
          volume:
            data:
              size: 40G
              mount: ${linux:storage:mount:data}

Create partitions on disk. Specify size in MB. It expects empty disk without any existing partitions. Set startsector=1 if you want to start partitions from 2048.

linux:
  storage:
    disk:
      first_drive:
        startsector: 1
        name: /dev/loop1
        type: gpt
        partitions:
          - size: 200 #size in MB
            type: fat32
          - size: 300 #size in MB
            mkfs: True
            type: xfs
      /dev/vda1:
        partitions:
          - size: 5
            type: ext2
          - size: 10
            type: ext4

Multipath with Fujitsu Eternus DXL:

parameters:
  linux:
    storage:
      multipath:
        enabled: true
        blacklist_devices:
        - /dev/sda
        - /dev/sdb
        backends:
        - fujitsu_eternus_dxl

Multipath with Hitachi VSP 1000:

parameters:
  linux:
    storage:
      multipath:
        enabled: true
        blacklist_devices:
        - /dev/sda
        - /dev/sdb
        backends:
        - hitachi_vsp1000

Multipath with IBM Storwize:

parameters:
  linux:
    storage:
      multipath:
        enabled: true
        blacklist_devices:
        - /dev/sda
        - /dev/sdb
        backends:
        - ibm_storwize

Multipath with multiple backends:

parameters:
  linux:
    storage:
      multipath:
        enabled: true
        blacklist_devices:
        - /dev/sda
        - /dev/sdb
        - /dev/sdc
        - /dev/sdd
        backends:
        - ibm_storwize
        - fujitsu_eternus_dxl
        - hitachi_vsp1000

PAM LDAP integration:

parameters:
  linux:
    system:
      auth:
        enabled: true
        mkhomedir:
          enabled: true
          umask: 0027
        ldap:
          enabled: true
          binddn: cn=bind,ou=service_users,dc=example,dc=com
          bindpw: secret
          uri: ldap://127.0.0.1
          base: ou=users,dc=example,dc=com
          ldap_version: 3
          pagesize: 65536
          referrals: off
          filter:
            passwd: (&(&(objectClass=person)(uidNumber=*))(unixHomeDirectory=*))
            shadow: (&(&(objectClass=person)(uidNumber=*))(unixHomeDirectory=*))
            group:  (&(objectClass=group)(gidNumber=*))

PAM duo 2FA integration

parameters:
  linux:
    system:
      auth:
        enabled: true
        duo:
          enabled: true
          duo_host: localhost
          duo_ikey: DUO-INTEGRATION-KEY
          duo_skey: DUO-SECRET-KEY

duo package version may be specified (optional)

linux:
  system:
    package:
      duo-unix:
        version: 1.10.1-0

Disabled multipath (the default setup):

parameters:
  linux:
    storage:
      multipath:
        enabled: false

Linux with local loopback device:

linux:
  storage:
    loopback:
      disk1:
        file: /srv/disk1
        size: 50G

External config generation

You are able to use config support metadata between formulas and only generate configuration files for external use, for example, Docker, and so on.

parameters:
  linux:
    system:
      config:
        pillar:
          jenkins:
            master:
              home: /srv/volumes/jenkins
              approved_scripts:
                - method java.net.URL openConnection
              credentials:
                - type: username_password
                  scope: global
                  id: test
                  desc: Testing credentials
                  username: test
                  password: test

Netconsole Remote Kernel Logging

Netconsole logger can be configured for the configfs-enabled kernels (CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC must be enabled). The configuration applies both in runtime (if network is already configured), and on-boot after an interface initialization.

Note

• Receiver can be located only on the same L3 domain (or you need to configure gateway MAC manually).
• The Receiver MAC is detected only on configuration time.
• Using broadcast MAC is not recommended.

parameters:
  linux:
    system:
      netconsole:
        enabled: true
        port: 514 (optional)
        loglevel: debug (optional)
        target:
          192.168.0.1:
            interface: bond0
            mac: "ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff" (optional)

Check network params on the environment

Grab nics and nics states

salt osd001\* net_checks.get_nics

Example of system output:

osd001.domain.com:
    |_
      - bond0
      - None
      - 1e:c8:64:42:23:b9
      - 0
      - 1500
    |_
      - bond1
      - None
      - 3c:fd:fe:27:3b:00
      - 1
      - 9100
    |_
      - fourty1
      - None
      - 3c:fd:fe:27:3b:00
      - 1
      - 9100
    |_
      - fourty2
      - None
      - 3c:fd:fe:27:3b:02
      - 1
      - 9100

Grab 10G nics PCI addresses for hugepages setup

salt cmp001\* net_checks.get_ten_pci

Example of system output:

cmp001.domain.com:
    |_
      - ten1
      - 0000:19:00.0
    |_
      - ten2
      - 0000:19:00.1
    |_
      - ten3
      - 0000:19:00.2
    |_
      - ten4
      - 0000:19:00.3

Grab ip address for an interface

salt cmp001\* net_checks.get_ip iface=one4

Example of system output:

cmp001.domain.com:
    10.200.177.101

Grab ip addresses map

salt-call net_checks.nodes_addresses

Example of system output:

local:
 |_
   - cid01.domain.com
   |_
     |_
       - pxe
       - 10.200.177.91
     |_
       - control
       - 10.200.178.91
 |_
   - cmn02.domain.com
   |_
     |_
       - storage_access
       - 10.200.181.67
     |_
       - pxe
       - 10.200.177.67
     |_
       - control
       - 10.200.178.67
 |_
   - cmp010.domain.com
   |_
     |_
       - pxe
       - 10.200.177.110
     |_
       - storage_access
       - 10.200.181.110
     |_
       - control
       - 10.200.178.110
     |_
       - vxlan
       - 10.200.179.110

Verify full mesh connectivity

salt-call net_checks.ping_check

Example of positive system output:

['PASSED']
[INFO    ] ['PASSED']
local:
    True

Example of system output in case of failure:

FAILED
[ERROR   ] FAILED
['control: 10.0.1.92 -> 10.0.1.224: Failed']
['control: 10.0.1.93 -> 10.0.1.224: Failed']
['control: 10.0.1.51 -> 10.0.1.224: Failed']
['control: 10.0.1.102 -> 10.0.1.224: Failed']
['control: 10.0.1.13 -> 10.0.1.224: Failed']
['control: 10.0.1.81 -> 10.0.1.224: Failed']
local:
    False

For this feature to work, please mark addresses with some role. Otherwise 'default' role is assumed and mesh would consist of all addresses on the environment.

Mesh mark is needed only for interfaces which are enabled and have ip address assigned.

Checking dhcp pxe network meaningless, as it is used for salt master vs minion communications, therefore treated as checked.

parameters:
  linux:
    network:
      interface:
        ens3:
          enabled: true
          type: eth
          proto: static
          address: ${_param:deploy_address}
          netmask: ${_param:deploy_network_netmask}
          gateway: ${_param:deploy_network_gateway}
          mesh: pxe

Check pillars for ip address duplicates

salt-call net_checks.verify_addresses

Example of positive system output:

['PASSED']
[INFO    ] ['PASSED']
local:
    True

Example of system output in case of failure:

FAILED. Duplicates found
[ERROR   ] FAILED. Duplicates found
['gtw01.domain.com', 'gtw02.domain.com', '10.0.1.224']
[ERROR   ] ['gtw01.domain.com', 'gtw02.domain.com', '10.0.1.224']
local:
    False

Generate csv report for the env

salt -C 'kvm* or cmp* or osd*' net_checks.get_nics_csv \
  | grep '^\ ' | sed 's/\ *//g' | grep -Ev ^server \
  | sed '1 i\server,nic_name,ip_addr,mac_addr,link,mtu,chassis_id,chassis_name,port_mac,port_descr'

Example of system output:

server,nic_name,ip_addr,mac_addr,link,mtu,chassis_id,chassis_name,port_mac,port_descr
cmp010.domain.com,bond0,None,b4:96:91:10:5b:3a,1,1500,,,,
cmp010.domain.com,bond0.21,10.200.178.110,b4:96:91:10:5b:3a,1,1500,,,,
cmp010.domain.com,bond0.22,10.200.179.110,b4:96:91:10:5b:3a,1,1500,,,,
cmp010.domain.com,bond1,None,3c:fd:fe:34:ad:22,0,1500,,,,
cmp010.domain.com,bond1.24,10.200.181.110,3c:fd:fe:34:ad:22,0,1500,,,,
cmp010.domain.com,fourty5,None,3c:fd:fe:34:ad:20,0,9000,,,,
cmp010.domain.com,fourty6,None,3c:fd:fe:34:ad:22,0,9000,,,,
cmp010.domain.com,one1,None,b4:96:91:10:5b:38,0,1500,,,,
cmp010.domain.com,one2,None,b4:96:91:10:5b:39,1,1500,f0:4b:3a:8f:75:40,exnfvaa18-20,548,ge-0/0/22
cmp010.domain.com,one3,None,b4:96:91:10:5b:3a,1,1500,f0:4b:3a:8f:75:40,exnfvaa18-20,547,ge-0/0/21
cmp010.domain.com,one4,10.200.177.110,b4:96:91:10:5b:3b,1,1500,f0:4b:3a:8f:75:40,exnfvaa18-20,546,ge-0/0/20
cmp011.domain.com,bond0,None,b4:96:91:13:6c:aa,1,1500,,,,
cmp011.domain.com,bond0.21,10.200.178.111,b4:96:91:13:6c:aa,1,1500,,,,
cmp011.domain.com,bond0.22,10.200.179.111,b4:96:91:13:6c:aa,1,1500,,,,
...

Usage

Set MTU of the eth0 network interface to 1400:

ip link set dev eth0 mtu 1400

Read more

• https://www.archlinux.org/
• http://askubuntu.com/questions/175172/how-do-i-configure-proxies-in-ubuntu-server-or-minimal-cli-ubuntu

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