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  I know I’ve been out of this for a little bit. I check in here or there, but just been extremely busy.

  I don’t want to stop contributing, I just am taking time for myself after my workly duties.

  I have to give a big gratitude and thanks for everyone here trying to help out whether by code, by helping the rest of the community, or documentation.

  @Sebastian-Roth I know you’re busy but you’ve kept the project rolling even with the minimal availability you have. Thank you.
  @george1421 I’m sure you’re busy, but I still see you posting and helping where possible and amenible. Thank you.
  @Wayne-Workman I know you’re helping where you can as well. (Of course I can’t exactly post everybody because I’ve been busy and honestly not keeping up with the forums as much as I probably should.)

  @everyone Thank you. Thank you for still believing in this project. We’re doing the best with what we have. Please understand in we’re lacking, it’s most likely unintentional. I know I’m just busy.

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  @sigit FOG is a one to many bare metal imaging solution. I don’t think that fits your requirements about updates and patches. PDQ Deploy and Inventory might be a good fit for that bit. FOG does have a snap in function (application deployment) that can be connected to image deployment, but its not really a stand alone solution.

  With inventory it can scan for installed software and then you can create policies and have pdq deploy enforce those policies.

  Also you could look into chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/ for patch/ application deployment if you wanted to stay in the FOSS user space.

  In any case for a non-domain environment you will need to have a consistent admin user account across all non-domain computers for the above solutions.

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  I’m another one of the many who is getting stuck with the hostname changer. I’ve not found a solution among the myriad posts on the matter. The client installed without errors, and the log shows that it is working, although I wasn’t able to figure out the “Unable to parse sleep time” error.

  12/7/2021 4:41 PM Service Starting service 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Bus Became bus client 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Middleware::Response Success 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Service Initializing modules ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------AutoLogOut---------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.16 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Client-Info Client OS: Linux 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Client-Info Server Version: 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Middleware::Response Success 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Bus::Client Connection established ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -----------------------------DefaultPrinterManager---------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.16 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Client-Info Client OS: Linux 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Client-Info Server Version: 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Middleware::Response Success ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------DisplayManager-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.16 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Client-Info Client OS: Linux 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Client-Info Server Version: 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Middleware::Response Success 12/7/2021 4:41 PM DisplayManager Module is not compatible with Linux ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Service ERROR: Unable to parse sleep time 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Service ERROR: Input string was not in a correct format. 12/7/2021 4:41 PM Service Sleeping for 60 seconds

  I’ve unchecked and rechecked the 3 places I can find to enable this:

  FOG Configuration>FOG Client - Hostname Changer Client Settings>Service Configuration>Hostname Changer>Service Status
  *Hosts>Host Management Edit: <my host>Service Settings>Host module settings

  (Sidenote: I’m puzzled why the log shows entries for Auto Logout, Printer Manager, and Display Manager, even though I disabled those globally…)

  I also deleted and redeployed the image onto the host, with no change.

  We’re not able currently to use the FOG server as our DHCP server, although it’s not clear to me that this would resolve the issue.

  From the manual, it looks like the Windows Client GUI has an option to enable the Hostname Changer (Maybe this is out of date?), but the Linux CLI installation didn’t have any such option. (See installation log here.)

  I’ve read about using a post install script with the FOG API to retrieve the hostname from the server and change it on the host, but I think that’s beyond my limited scripting ability. If I could retrieve the hostname, I might be able to adapt a simple script. I thought this one would be the cat’s meow, but something failed, and I think that the one that wasn’t supposed to need a MySQL client may still actually need it. I realize that I could register all clients in the DHCP reservations, but that looks like a pretty big task for something that could be automated.

  Thanks much in advance!

  FOG server v. 1.5.7

  lsb_release -a LSB Version: :core-4.1-amd64:core-4.1-noarch Distributor ID: CentOS Description: CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) Release: 7.6.1810 Codename: Core
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  @sebastian-roth said in New release?:

  For those I’d suggest they stick with 1.5.x for now and probably some months down the road until 1.6.x is fully ready for production. Just my opinion.

  Same here I think sticking with 1.5.x line a bit longer is in order. No new features in 1.5.x just bug fixes for now. We need to get the 1.5.x last version as stable as 1.4.4 was to the 1.4.x line.

  In 1.6 I’d like to see nfsv4, and some other stuff around security posture of FOG nothing dramatic though.