Load new profile in Network manager v0.9.4 using cli (without nm-connection-editor) ?

[Stanislav Bocinec <svacko gmail com>]

Hello,

i'm working on migration of autoprovisioned Ubuntu 12.04 LTS servers from ifup (/etc/network/interfaces) to NetworkManager (v0.9.4.0). /etc/network/interfaces is clean (only loopback interface is configured):

# cat /etc/network/interfaces 
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

In this scenario, NM list one 'Wired connection 1':

# nmcli c list
NAME                      UUID                                   TYPE              TIMESTAMP-REAL                    
Wired connection 1        e96b8486-3ea8-4f20-bd5a-2d532c2cf90a   802-3-ethernet    Wed 06 Aug 2014 03:13:29 PM CEST

/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ is empty:

# ls -la /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug  6 15:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Aug  6 11:37 ..

When i generate new profile and store it in /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/ i'm not able to persuade NM to register/load this profile:

# cat /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/DHCP 
[802-3-ethernet]
duplex=full

[connection]
id=DHCP
uuid=25b9bcf8-1534-411d-8cb6-a3d4fcf33f5a
type=802-3-ethernet
timestamp=1407331036

[ipv6] 
method=auto

[ipv4] 
method=auto

# service network-manager restart
network-manager stop/waiting
network-manager start/running, process 1918


# nmcli c list
NAME                      UUID                                   TYPE              TIMESTAMP-REAL                    
Wired connection 1        df785c8f-67e6-44c0-8434-2ca2b96d6408   802-3-ethernet    Wed 06 Aug 2014 03:27:16 PM CEST

I'm able to create new profile only using nm-connection-editor, but we can't use this method in autodeployments. Can anyone suggest, how to accomplish import and successful load of manually created NM profile into the NM? I'm aware NM supports  is already added in v0.9.9.1, but if there is any way how to succeed with mine setup, i'll appreciate any help!

I asked already on serverfault but without success..(http://serverfault.com/questions/618394/how-to-load-new-profile-in-network-manager-v0-9-without-nm-connection-editor-usi)

Thanks in advance,

Stan