[quote=“ZeroSkillz, post: 11092, member: 3464”]Thank you this was very helpful.[/quote]

no problem.

enjoy

cant use description field, but why didn’t I think of the IP field haha thanks

Thanks for the info!

I’ll certainly use those commands for now. Maybe sometime in the future this could be added to FOG. Until then, this helps immensely.

Thanks again chad-bisd!

FOG uses [URL=‘http://www.partimage.org/’]Partimage[/URL] for the actual image creation/deployment, which creates an image of the drive at the sector level, meaning there is no “filesystem” that can be modified. There was [URL=‘http://www.partimage.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=309’]talk in the Partimage forums[/URL] a while back about trying to write a block device driver that would allow you to mount your Partimage image files and modify them, but Partimage files are compressed internally (as in Partimage compresses the stream of sectors while writing the image file), so you would also have to decompress the image file before you could even mount it, at which point you’re basically deploying the image. So the only real option is to deploy the image to a computer, make whatever changes and then upload the image again.

I really like the idea, but seeing as the devs seem to be pretty busy and Fog seems to be a ‘side project’ for them personally I’d rather see them focus on stuff that can’t easily be done elsewhere (because as you say Webmin is ok for DHCP and isn’t too hard to install). Just my 2c…

As you get more clients that will get worse, especially when you get clients that are not active. I suggest you look into disabling the PING unless you have a reason to have it active. (Can’t remember how to do that right now, but I am pretty sure it is something you have to dig into the config files to change). When we were at about 250 clients it got too time consuming. Now that we are at 700+ I can not imagine what it would be like.
I guess my suggestion would be to have a simple on/off on the ping.

Thanks! I will try that…

I haven’t look at the 0.33 code in a while so I wasn’t sure. Hence the post

You are referring to the edit of [I]man.hostexists.php [/I]that is made. this is to edit [I][SIZE=12px]auto.register.php ii[/SIZE][/I][SIZE=12px]n a similar fashion for when the boot menu option of Quick Host Registration and Inventory is used on a pc that is already in the database.[/SIZE]

You need to go to:
Other Information - Fog Settings, then change the FOG_VIEW_DEFAULT_SCREEN to:
LIST
(the default setting is SEARCH)

[quote=“TomB, post: 9070, member: 2667”]I too would like a disable ping system-wide and on a per-host basis. I am working in a small school environment and there isn’t a DNS server that can register the names so the pinging always times out.

Great program.[/quote]

Go to the ‘Other Information’ Page -> scroll down to ‘[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#3e3e3e]General Settings’ -> change ‘[/COLOR][/FONT][FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333]FOG_HOST_LOOKUP’ to 0[/COLOR][/FONT]

[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333]SAVE YOUR CHANGES[/COLOR][/FONT]

[SIZE=6][B]The Ten Minute Guide to diff and patch[/B][/SIZE]

[url]http://jungels.net/articles/diff-patch-ten-minutes.html[/url]

FOG currently supports 1 default AD to join by default, and that information can be auto populated when you specify a host should auto join the domain after imaging.

You can however put the computers into a FOG group for each sub domain, and then use the group settings to specify the domain information to use when joined the subdomain.

I think the process would be to get them all registered with FOG, put them into a group, and then specify the AD option for the group. Those hosts should auto join the sub-domain you specified rather than the default domain.

I know this isn’t exactly what you’re asking for, but it’s how you can do it with the current version of FOG (0.32).

Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll look into this.