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22.1 Legacy Series / Automatic minimal setup / provisioning
« on: April 13, 2022, 03:54:52 pm »
Hi everyone.
We're currently evaluating OPNsense as our gateway software of choice for a large-scale rollout (potentially up to 100 devices in multple countries).
One usecase we're a bit struggling on currently is an automated setup / provisioning routine: We would like to get a new appliance (hardware) online as easily as possible.
We're aware that we can simply put the nano version on a USB-stick and boot from there. But how can we inject an initial config.xml into that image so that this gets applied on boot?
It's ok if an employee only has to configure the BIOS (remotely via a videocall) and plugin a USB-stick. But we don't want that these employees have to coupe with network configuration tasks.
Are there any howtos or recommended procedures to accomplish that?
Best
Thomas
We're currently evaluating OPNsense as our gateway software of choice for a large-scale rollout (potentially up to 100 devices in multple countries).
One usecase we're a bit struggling on currently is an automated setup / provisioning routine: We would like to get a new appliance (hardware) online as easily as possible.
We're aware that we can simply put the nano version on a USB-stick and boot from there. But how can we inject an initial config.xml into that image so that this gets applied on boot?
It's ok if an employee only has to configure the BIOS (remotely via a videocall) and plugin a USB-stick. But we don't want that these employees have to coupe with network configuration tasks.
Are there any howtos or recommended procedures to accomplish that?
Best
Thomas