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.

My company is looking into products like Dell/Kace and IBMs solution and they have these type of features for a nice fee if you want. If you arent using Fog over the network and only in a standalone environment like we are currently I know your dilemma.

Thank you for the reply! Hopefully it is something that others could find useful and someone will work on it. I appreciate the hard work!

+1 vote to this feature request. Product works very well now, but this would just top it off!

Here is the new version of getMacAddress() i just wrote. It’s untested, see how you go.

[code] public ArrayList getMacAddress()
{
// Variables
ArrayList alMacs = new ArrayList();

try { // Get all network interaces NetworkInterface[] adapters = NetworkInterface.GetAllNetworkInterfaces(); // Iterate all network interaces foreach (NetworkInterface adapter in adapters) { // Get IP Properties IPInterfaceProperties properties = adapter.GetIPProperties(); // Push MAC address into array alMacs.Add( adapter.GetPhysicalAddress().ToString() ); // DEBUG //log("N/A", "Found network interface: Name: " + adapter.Description + ", MAC: " + adapter.GetPhysicalAddress().ToString()); } } catch (Exception e) { log("N/A", e.Message); } return alMacs; }[/code]

I have attached a compiled DLL, give it a shot and let me know how it goes.

EDIT: I’ve tested this and it worked as intended.

[code] 30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug Reading config settings…
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug Reading of config settings passed.
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug Starting Core processing…
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug Operating System ID: 6
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug Operating System Minor: 1
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug MAC ID 0 BC:5F:F4:49:96:63
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug MAC ID 1 00:50:56:C0:00:01
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug MAC ID 2 00:50:56:C0:00:08
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug MAC POST String: BC:5F:F4:49:96:63|00:50:56:C0:00:01|00:50:56:C0:00:08
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug A user is currently logged in
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug Username: BLACKOUT\Blackout
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug Hostname: BLACKOUT
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug Attempting to open connect to: http://10.0.0.23/fog/service/debug.php
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug Server responded with: Hello FOG Client
30/08/2012 1:48 PM FOG::MODDebug Module has finished work and will now exit.[/code]

I have also attached the latest version of MODDebug which outputs the above as soon as the service starts (it used to wait 100 seconds)

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/162_MODDebug.dll?:”]MODDebug.dll[/url][url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/163_AbstractFOGService.dll?:”]AbstractFOGService.dll[/url]

I believe someone on the forums has modifications to FOG to allow you to manage which partitions are uploaded and deployed.

This has been requested before:

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/having-a-next-user-level-besides-mobile-user.557/[/url]

I think that would be great, too. Especially a user profile, which enables a user to only modify the images created by himself, not images created by other users.

Memtest is the only utility thru PXE. The rest are advanced tasks available through the web ui.

[quote=“Walter Wahlstedt, post: 5448, member: 1441”]Could you give a little more indepth information on how to implement your patch?[/quote]

First you need some kind of http authentication with apache. After that everbody who logs in over apache needs a user in Fog with his username and the static password FogREMOTEUSER.