@cnkpadobi I’d like you to start with this: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6400/usb-boot-uefi-client-into-fog-menu-harder-way

Don’t let the title scare you. Its not really that hard. What you will do here is create an iPXE boot stick that will launch you into the iPXE FOG menu. The only thing that you need to be concerned with is the iPXE kernel have built in usb support for the generic network adapter.

If that process fails we can build a FOS usb boot stick and bypass iPXE altogether.

Thank you

@Wayne-Workman i won the race 😉

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9324/parted-magic-for-uefi-bios-boot?page=1

@Tom-Elliott maybe hes asking about the technology a node is talking with the main fog system, (sql, ftp etc.)

Regards X23

@Tom-Elliott It’s working perfectly, thanks 🙂

@Joe-Schmitt
Thank you Joe. Following the steps as described in the wiki worked and fixed it. At first I wrongly assumed that I only temporarily disabled the service and it fixed the issue. Turned out the service needed to be started again after sysprep.

@Tom-Elliott

Perfect! Thank you.

@Chrisjmuk And remember where you cloned the fogproject to for next time. Now you have two copies of it on your server. You could probably find them with this:
find / | grep installfog.sh

@Tom-Elliott Yes, “imaged to the server” meaning captured. Thanks for the correct reference Host=deployed, Images=Captured. I was looking at this a different way. We use FOG only for saving images of customized hosts (about 20) in our environment. Thanks!

@Tom-Elliott The script you posted had a few issues, I’ve fixed them up. A mistyped variable in the first loop, and I added code to update the snapinAssoc IDs too so those aren’t lost. I’ve submitted a pull request.

All, the improved script will be available here:
https://github.com/FOGProject/fog-community-scripts

This is just a hold-over honestly. We need a big and comprehensive script to just cleanup and re-order everything. Locations, images, snapins, groups, everything - as well as running cleanup commands that we know fixes stuff and can’t hurt but can only help.

In plainer terms, you can update Ubuntu from an older version to a newer one - sure. But if it fails or leaves fog crippled, we don’t just “know” what went wrong. We don’t know how the old OS was setup, what was installed, how it was configured, and so on. It can be troubleshooted but how long that will take or if it’s successful or not, I can’t tell you. The Developers and Moderators and other community members are normally willing to help people - but your pace is limited to their free time.

So… Last night I wrote an article about migrating fog. For this - we know all the steps, and it’s less risky - and you can follow along with it and work at your own pace instead of relying on us.

If you’re strong with Linux and you’re Google-Foo is up to snuff, sure upgrade your OS. If you’re a newbie in a crunch don’t want risks, migrate.

found this post from @cml and tried the image from there!

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/4782/help-usb-boot-fog/25

It works with 1.3.1 RC6! Thank you man!

Can be closed here

@Joseph-Hales it deals with the firmware that might be applied. while this is typically reset on reboot, windows firmware applied holds in the NICs ROM. The fog inits load their own firmware in a temporary state.

@george1421
Thank you! I’ll check it out.

This article has also been updated with instructions detailing how to do this:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Upgrade_to_trunk

@Tim-Reynolds Current iteration of the log file:

========================== ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------ClientUpdater-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Middleware::Response Success ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------TaskReboot---------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Middleware::Response Success ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------HostnameChanger------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Middleware::Response Success 1/2/2017 4:42 PM HostnameChanger Checking Hostname 1/2/2017 4:42 PM HostnameChanger Hostname is correct 1/2/2017 4:42 PM HostnameChanger Attempting to join domain 1/2/2017 4:42 PM HostnameChanger The machine is already joined to the domain, code = 2691 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------SnapinClient--------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Middleware::Response No snapins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------PrinterManager-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Middleware::Response No Printers 1/2/2017 4:42 PM PrinterManager Getting installed printers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------PowerManagement------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Middleware::Response Success 1/2/2017 4:42 PM PowerManagement Calculating tasks to unschedule 1/2/2017 4:42 PM PowerManagement Calculating tasks to schedule ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------UserTracker--------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Middleware::Response Success ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:42 PM Service Sleeping for 86 seconds 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Communication URL: http://192.168.208.125/fog/management/index.php?sub=requestClientInfo&configure&newService&json 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Response Success 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Communication URL: http://192.168.208.125/fog/management/index.php?sub=requestClientInfo&mac=BC:30:5B:C7:49:A8||00:00:00:00:00:00:00:E0|00:00:00:00:00:00:00:E0|00:00:00:00:00:00:00:E0&newService&json 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Response Success 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Communication URL: http://192.168.208.125/fog/service/getversion.php?clientver&newService&json 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Communication URL: http://192.168.208.125/fog/service/getversion.php?newService&json 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Service Creating user agent cache 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Response Invalid time 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Response No Printers 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Response Module is disabled globally on the FOG server ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------ClientUpdater-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Response Success ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------TaskReboot---------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Response Success ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------HostnameChanger------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Response Success 1/2/2017 4:44 PM HostnameChanger Checking Hostname 1/2/2017 4:44 PM HostnameChanger Removing host from domain 1/2/2017 4:44 PM HostnameChanger Access Denied, code = 5 1/2/2017 4:44 PM HostnameChanger Renaming host to ThirtySeven4-b 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Power Creating shutdown command in 60 seconds 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Bus { "self": true, "channel": "Power", "data": "{\r\n \"action\": \"request\",\r\n \"period\": 60,\r\n \"options\": 2,\r\n \"command\": \"/r /c \\\"FOG needs to rename your computer\\\" /t 0\",\r\n \"aggregatedDelayTime\": 0,\r\n \"message\": \"FOG needs to perform maintenance on this computer.\"\r\n}" } 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Bus Emmiting message on channel: Power ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------SnapinClient--------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Response No snapins 1/2/2017 4:44 PM SnapinClient A power operation is pending, aborting module ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------PrinterManager-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Response No Printers 1/2/2017 4:44 PM PrinterManager Getting installed printers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------PowerManagement------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Response Success 1/2/2017 4:44 PM PowerManagement Calculating tasks to unschedule 1/2/2017 4:44 PM PowerManagement Calculating tasks to schedule ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------UserTracker--------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Middleware::Response Success ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:44 PM Service Sleeping for 135 seconds 1/2/2017 4:45 PM Power Creating shutdown request 1/2/2017 4:45 PM Power Parameters: /r /c "FOG needs to rename your computer" /t 0 1/2/2017 4:45 PM Bus { "self": true, "channel": "Power", "data": "{\r\n \"action\": \"shuttingdown\"\r\n}" } 1/2/2017 4:45 PM Bus Emmiting message on channel: Power 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Main Overriding exception handling 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Main Bootstrapping Zazzles 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Controller Initialize 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Zazzles Creating main thread 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Zazzles Service construction complete 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Controller Start 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Service Starting service 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Bus Became bus server 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Bus { "self": true, "channel": "Status", "data": "{\r\n \"action\": \"load\"\r\n}" } 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Bus Emmiting message on channel: Status 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Service Invoking early JIT compilation on needed binaries ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------Authentication-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Authentication Waiting for authentication timeout to pass 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Communication Download: http://192.168.208.125/fog/management/other/ssl/srvpublic.crt 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Data::RSA FOG Server CA cert found 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Authentication Cert OK 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Communication POST URL: http://192.168.208.125/fog/management/index.php?sub=requestClientInfo&authorize&newService 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Response Success 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Authentication Authenticated 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Bus Registering ParseBus in channel Power 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Communication URL: http://192.168.208.125/fog/management/index.php?sub=requestClientInfo&configure&newService&json 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Response Success 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Communication URL: http://192.168.208.125/fog/management/index.php?sub=requestClientInfo&mac=BC:30:5B:C7:49:A8||00:00:00:00:00:00:00:E0|00:00:00:00:00:00:00:E0|00:00:00:00:00:00:00:E0&newService&json 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Response Success 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Communication URL: http://192.168.208.125/fog/service/getversion.php?clientver&newService&json 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Communication URL: http://192.168.208.125/fog/service/getversion.php?newService&json 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Service Creating user agent cache 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Response Invalid time 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Response No Printers 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Response Module is disabled globally on the FOG server 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Service Initializing modules ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------ClientUpdater-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Response Success ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------TaskReboot---------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Response Success ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------HostnameChanger------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Response Success 1/2/2017 4:46 PM HostnameChanger Checking Hostname 1/2/2017 4:46 PM HostnameChanger Hostname is correct 1/2/2017 4:46 PM HostnameChanger Attempting to join domain 1/2/2017 4:46 PM HostnameChanger The machine is already joined to the domain, code = 2691 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------SnapinClient--------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Response No snapins ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------PrinterManager-------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Response No Printers 1/2/2017 4:46 PM PrinterManager Getting installed printers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------PowerManagement------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Response Success 1/2/2017 4:46 PM PowerManagement Calculating tasks to unschedule 1/2/2017 4:46 PM PowerManagement Calculating tasks to schedule ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------UserTracker--------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.7 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Client OS: Windows 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Client-Info Server Version: 1.3.0 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Response Success 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Middleware::Communication URL: http://192.168.208.125/fog/service/usertracking.report.php?action=login&user=ThirtySeven4-b\a1min&mac=BC:30:5B:C7:49:A8||00:00:00:00:00:00:00:E0|00:00:00:00:00:00:00:E0|00:00:00:00:00:00:00:E0&newService&json ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1/2/2017 4:46 PM Service Sleeping for 100 seconds

This document more throughly describes all of fog’s passwords, where to set them, what they do, and and so on:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Password_Central

Also, for this particular problem, this article may also help future readers:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshoot_MySQL

Does your company own the computers you’re imaging? Are these computers at branch/satellite locations?

@SlimJim said in Multiple TFTP servers on SVN:

What ports need to be open on either side for full communication between the Main Site and Storage node?

http - 80
https - 443
tftp - 69
ftp sometimes 20, 21, 22, or all three.
mysql - 3306
nfs 111, 2048, 2049, potentially 1110 and 4045. You’ll just have to try these first.

138, 139, and 445 are also listed in the wiki but I don’t know what for. Try it without them first.

To use multicast, you will need ports 49152 through 65532.

If you’re going to run DHCP from the fog servers, those UDP and TCP ports will need opened too.

I’m going to attempt this by using all nat’s and firewall rules and eventually I would like to move my main fog server into aws or some similar cloud service.

Good luck. One thing about AWS is they don’t care about your data nearly as much as you do, and their service is not this perfect holy grail as it’s made out to be mostly because of cost. It’s pretty good yeah, but if you google search about moving to AWS you’ll mostly find stuff about how to get out of AWS.