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  Useful Scripts
  • Tom Elliott

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  That’s really cool.

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  Organizations Using FOG
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  Organization Name: SVOBE Schools

  Location (Optional) St. Maarten, Dutch Caribbean

  Approximate Number of systems: 500

  How long: 8 Years.

  We have been using fog to re-image all our school labs every summer.

  Wiki entry:

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  Requests for Wiki Access <--- ASK HERE
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  @lps-rocks Thanks for getting in touch! Sounds great. You are more than welcome to update the wiki and help with iPXE stuff here too. See the chat bubble in the top right corner for more information.

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  Please do not cross post on multiple forums with the same question
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  This seems to [url=https://www.gclubtg.com/]gclub[/url] be happening more often lately [url=https://www.sbobet168.com/]sbobet[/url] than in the past.

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  Database Maintenance - Error 1142
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  @tom-elliott Thanks very much!! That fixed it!

  I found the path to the password to that user from another post I’ll copy here in case someone else runs into this problem.

  Find the database information in /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/config.class.php - with FOG 1.5.9 the database user is called fogmaster instead of root that was used in earlier versions.

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  Move partition in GPT layout - need people to test
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  @btoffolon Does this machine image fine with the original init?
  You can also try a different bzImage. I’m using 5.618RT3 made by @george1421 found here https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/15017/lenovo-l13-yoga-maybe-the-usb-cable-is-bad-error-when-trying-to-register/18?_=1610731427661

  I may have forgotten that I was using a different bzImage kernel when I started testing for this…

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  capture a image over the fog boot menu
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  Vlan, Ipxe, DHCPNAK
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  @matthew73 This is a unique condition. I can understand what is going on because we use NAC and VLAN switching on my campus. I can say that I have not seen this issue (anywhere) on my campus.

  I think I understand what needs to happen. Basically iPXE needs to say something and then wait XX seconds for your NAC system to identify the hardware and to switch it to the right vlan. The network link light winking happens 2 times during a normal pxe booting. The first time is when the PXE turns over control of the network adapter to iPXE and then when iPXE turns over control of the network adapter to FOS Linux. We see a similar issue when the network switches are using standard spanning tree and not one of the fast protocols (RSTP,MSTP, port-fast).

  The developers have created a specific group of iPXE boot loaders that have an embedded 10 second delay before iPXE tries to request an IP address. This gives STP and powersaver functions on the switch a chance to react before iPXE starts to talk. These files are in the 10secdelay folder. So to use these update dhcp option from ipxe.efi to 10secdelay/ipxe.efi This will call in the 10 second delay boot loader. See if that makes things better or not.

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  Small errors in migration commands
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  I’ve added some more steps that should avoid those errors.

  I’ve updated the chown command in the wiki. The user fogproject is something that came about after this article was written. The user used to be just fog

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  Ideale FOG omgeving voor Refurbish afdeling
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  @george1421

  Hi George,

  That’s exactly what im looking for! Thanks, this would work for me. When we get hardware on our departmend i connect always mostley one kind of machine, so that works for me.

  thank you for your great help and quik respons. Im gonna build further with this in a few weeks, and now it is a lot easier.

  gr

  Paul

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  Imaging windows 7 Pro
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  @kdmiller45 The fog-client software will do the activation for you if it’s all setup correctly.

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  Change default interface FOG uses from eno2 to eno1
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  @george1421 Great, thank you for the quick response.

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  Hostname is not given
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  @emreonder Please post the contents of the fog-client log file here.

  Hostname changing on Linux systems is not as straight forward as it is on Windows. The fog-client will try to change different config files (code reference) though this might not always work.

  On Linux you can usually take another route and set hostname via DHCP. Search the forums and the web in how to do this.

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  Is it possible to update bios setting via FOG server.
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  @emreonder I thought you have Windows DHCP server in your network. Well if the FOG server is actually providing IPs as the main DHCP server in your network you should not shutdown the server/service as clients would not get an IP via DHCP even when booting Windows.

  If this is really true (you don’t have another DHCP server) then I would suggest you comment the line “next-server 10.1.11.4;” by putting a # at the start of this line, like this:

  ... # next-server 10.1.11.4; ...

  Save the config and restart the server.

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  Booting Rescue ISO
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  @george1421 Hello,

  yes, but not working. I guess because I use the files from the Hiren`s Image?:
  
  He load the 1.3GB boot.wim … and after the error displayed.

  I set this in the menu:
  set tftp-path tftp://${fog-ip}
  set pe-path ${tftp-path}/os/hirens
  kernel ${tftp-path}/wimboot gui
  imgfetch --name BCD ${pe-path}/BCD BCD
  imgfetch --name boot.sdi ${pe-path}/boot.sdi boot.sdi
  imgfetch --name boot.wim ${pe-path}/boot.wim boot.wim
  boot || goto MENU

  Files in folder:
  

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  Need to install Fog Server. Urgent remote support needed.
  • emreonder

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  @emreonder said in Need to install Fog Server. Urgent remote support needed.:

  nomater all the options i try with the Host Bios Exit Type or Host EFI Exit Type ( i guess i tried all the combinations) but never passes this step.

  Ok the first thing we need to know is the gigabyte mobo in bios or uefi mode. Knowing that then you can focus on the right Host Exit type.

  The default for bios exit type is SANBOOT. That works 95% of the time. For the UEFI exit type that is typically rEFInd.

  So if you have a uefi type firmware and rEFInd hangs on exit there are a few things you can try with refind to make it work. The first thing I think I would have you do is update a few settings in the refind.conf file to see if adjust refind to locate your boot media.

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  create/capture new image over the fog boot menu
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  @enricok said in create/capture new image over the fog boot menu:

  the full registration and inventory over the fog boot menu, load also information via HTTP, or?

  Yes and many other things do as well like simply booting to the FOG iPXE menu.

  I think it is a easy way to create and capture image over the IPXE menu like the full registration.

  You might start reading through the code to get an idea. This part of the code is called when you do a full registration with line 264 scheduling a deployment task.

  The other route you might take is using the FOG API so create new images and schedule a capture task. You might be able to use VB script to send a query to the FOG API. Possibly just create a simple script for your service engineers that will ask for an image name to create. Though there is one issue you might have with this: The service engineer has to enter the hostname manually to find the correct object in the database.

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  Additional Information in Hosts
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  @Oleg I hope you can read patch/diff information. Here are the changes you need to make to /var/www/html/fog/lib/pages/hostmanagementpage.class.php to add the “System Product” column to the host list output - this is for FOG 1.5.9 and would probably work in 1.5.8 just as well:

  --- fogproject-master/packages/web/lib/pages/hostmanagementpage.class.php 2020-09-14 01:00:12.000000000 +0200 +++ /var/www/html/fog/lib/pages/hostmanagementpage.class.php 2020-12-19 17:03:24.225580767 +0100 @@ -175,7 +175,8 @@ _('Host'), _('Imaged'), _('Task'), - _('Assigned Image') + _('Assigned Image'), + _('System Product') ); $this->templates = array( '<i class="icon fa fa-question hand"></i>', @@ -223,7 +224,9 @@ _('Goto task list') ), '<small><a href="?node=image&sub=edit&id=${image_id}">' - . '${image_name}</a></small>' + . '${image_name}</a></small>', + '${inventory}' + ); unset($up, $down, $mc); $this->attributes = array( @@ -259,6 +262,9 @@ ), array( 'width' => 20 + ), + array( + 'width' => 120 ) ); /** @@ -281,6 +287,7 @@ 'image_id' => $Host->imageID, 'image_name' => $Host->imagename, 'pingstatus' => $Host->pingstatus, + 'inventory' => $Host->inventory->sysproduct, ); unset($Host); };

  I suggest you keep a copy of this information somewhere so you can apply the changes whenever you update to a new version of FOG.

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  Updating Dabase Failed
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  @sebastian-roth Yes resolved.

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  Creating a Custom Full Reg Screen
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  @DJslimD1k Yes there are two ways of achieving this. The first one is kind of static where you modify the init.xz file. You need to re-do the modification as soon as you update to a new version of FOG. Find instructions on how to do that in the wiki: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Modifying_the_Init_Image

  But as you seem to use the latest dev-branch version (great!) I would suggest you use the more dynamic way of “patching” the inits on the fly while it boots up. George posted instructions on this in the forums: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/13500/dynamically-patching-fos-using-a-postinit-script

  In your case you want to edit fog.reg.man.fix and delete lines 286-294 as well as 250-268 (note I am listing the lines numbers in reverse because when you start deleting in line 250 the later line numbers will change).

  As well I suggest you keep an eye on the commit history of this particular file on github (https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/commits/master/Buildroot/board/FOG/FOS/rootfs_overlay/bin/fog.man.reg) - whenever we commit a change I suggest you re-download and modify your fog.reg.man.fix again. Last change was March 2018, so changes to this file are kind of rare but you never know.