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  Useful Scripts
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  We have created a dedicated repository for community scripts: https://github.com/FOGProject/fog-community-scripts. All scripts in this repository are under the MIT license, and contain a brief README describing basic usage.
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  Organizations Using FOG
  • Tom Elliott

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  @tom-elliott said in Organizations Using FOG: Organization Name: EKIMIA company Location (Optional) : Marseille , France Approximate Number of systems: more than 500 systems shipped to customers using FOG How long: Since Mid 2015.
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  Requests for Wiki Access <--- ASK HERE
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  @oscar-hilliker Check your messages, the talk bubble in the top right corner.
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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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  Advice on specs for new setup
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  @george1421 To answer your questions I would say that if we could get half of the expected capacity of the new workspace that would be great. So about 60 laptops. I figure that by the time 2 or 3 people get those 60 setup the first ones they started would already be done imaging. We plan on having the FOG servers attached via 10G to a stacked set of 10G distro switches. This would then feed the access switches over 10G as well for the imaging benches which would be regular 1G copper. We generally don’t do multicast since we have a lot of different images that are getting pushed at any given time. The staggered approach is what we’re used to already. I’m hoping that we can set up the FOG nodes so that at about 60 or so computers we’re just going to be bottlenecked at the target computer and not the FOG hardware. Right now with 60 spaces open we can load the whole bench in an all hands on deck scenario and when normally on no load we’d hit 3.8GB/min on the laptops we’re now at 756MB/min instead. The goal is the keep as close to maximum imaging speed as possible so we have no doubts that the target computers are whats holding us back.
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  has anyone ever used fog from the external WWW
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  @p4cm4n said in has anyone ever used fog from the external WWW: satellite office without VPN that the fog client will connect to my external IP address That’s generally advised against for the reasons @george1421 has already listed. It’s difficult to completely secure all aspects of FOG given the current code base and the technologies it uses.
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  Is FOG what i'm looking for , for my server?
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  @vascomorais Seems like your question has mostly been answered, but I wanted to pipe in on your comment ‘I can ask the forum’. YES! These forums are amazing. There are numerous people(Including senior developers) that will respond quickly and intelligently and assist you with problems you have with the system. I can’t say enough good about this community. Hope FOG works for you, it’s been a lifesaver for me and my organization! Philip
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  SQL script to cleanup database
  • Greg Plamondon

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  We don’t keep track of when hosts check in. I guess the closest you could use would be the hostSecTime in the hosts table as it should be regularly cycled. So anything with a last synced time from or earlier than said date could work?
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  new windows 10 laptops.
  • jpaul

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  @jpaul As a test place a dumb (unmanaged) switch between one of the troubled target computers and the building switch and try it again. If this works, then you need to get with your networking admins to check the network switches to ensure that (if) spanning tree is enabled, you are using one of the fast stp protocols (RSTP, MSTP, fast-STP, or what ever your switch port manufacturer calls it).
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  Host Registration
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  @skydraw35 said in Host Registration: I put the background and it work in Legacy/Bios for me ! I have a last question, when i up/receive my image, can i put the uefi ? Not sure I follow you here. From the sounds of it registration works for you when BIOS/Legacy booted? Are you asking if you register it via BIOS can you then deploy/capture images in UEFI mode? I would think so, as long as you set the host machine to boot UEFI and the iPXE menu loads up. I dont think the registration of the machine is tied to BIOS/UEFI mode at all. Images and PXE booting are however, so you couldnt for example (at least not easily) capture a UEFI image and then deploy on a machine BIOS booted for example. With the change you made to DHCP, you should test and see if UEFI now works too for registration.
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  faq
  • Wayne Workman

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  Deployment task never finishes without error
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  Disable Bitlocker was no alternative. That’s the result of my tests today. At first I tried to only unlock the bitlocked drive, but this will not withstand a reboot. So my unlocked image gets locked again when I reboot. When I disable BL that means I have to remove the BL encryption, so that the dd in funcs.sh ( dd if=$part bs=512 count=1 2>&1 | grep -i ‘-FVE-FS-’ ) is not able to find the BL-signature. But that would mean I have to deploy truly clean images and encrypt EVERY deployed image afterwards. This is a no-go. It costs time in encryption and (even worse) it creates one dedicated key for every new deployed computer. We need to use one remotely stored key for all deployed computers. That makes best sense in our use-case an I cannot change that decission. TPM will not work for us and would no make sense either as we need to have that mentioned key. Windows update will not hesitate us here … its an embedded W7 for dedicated systems. Finally I patched funcs.sh (uncommented that bitlocker check) and made a new init.xz of it. So my remaining question here: How I have to use the setupcomplete.cmd correctly in terms of: receive the new hostname . Here my first attempt was to wait some time as I observed that snappins take about some minutes until they get delivered … Will that naming take same time? set a static IP which depends from hostname ( I already have prepared a batch file for that …) Will that all have to go into setupcomplete.cmd? How and when will that get executed? Regards
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  Possible to Use Snapin Post Image to Join Domain?
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  @quinniedid which is what I guessed. :)
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  Permissions on /images NFS share
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  From a security standpoint I dont see using NFS for imaging as an issue. As mentioned you can set it to allow only from a specific IP range. That should be enough to prevent issues (if a adversary is already on that subnet you have bigger issues). Especially if you dont have sensitive data in the share and if your FOG server is behind a firewall. Samba would have the ability to allow only connecting from approved users or groups, the problem with that is passing the credentials to connect. In Clonezilla I used to capture and deploy via SSH, which I really liked, but havent had any issues with how FOG handles it via NFS. Your first warning, as it seems you have figured out, is I think kind of a basic way NFS works. Client machines have to be able to see/query the server for the share to use it. The second warning is just an extension of that, whats the point in knowing the share is on the server if you cant mount and use it.
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  Example/template for a service deployed as snapin
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  Its a windows-service executable (exe) which I have to call with arg /install to install it. Normaly I would install this by hand in the mother-image I deploy to all clients. But the development of that service delays, so I have to postpone that installation. Before the install-call of the executable I have to remove the write-lock of the partition, means I have to call another system-executable in advance. After a successful installation I want to reboot. The SW is an cmake based development. I have no cmake configs which created a Visual Studio deployment project (msi - even if an msi would be good for doing this … I have my doubts) so I have to create this afterwards in the Visual Studio. That is not a good attempt at all, no other co-worker will accept that sh***. So I am looking for an easy-going way … maybe WiX will get it. I have to read the docs, but if anybody has some better suggestions, please tell me.
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  Snapins larger then Default
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  @jla This is fixed in FOG 1.5.3. Because 1.5.3 was released days ago, and this post from 30 days ago says it was fixed in working-branch: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11875/snapin-upload-limit-of-8mb-is-too-small So my advice to you is update to 1.5.3 and see how it goes.
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  Clarification on Snapins, How/When They Run?
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  @wayne-workman Ok cool, I will look into it, Thank you.
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  Bandwidth line colours
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  @tom-elliott Great, thanks for the update. Cant wait to give 1.6 a go.
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  Solved view delayed tasks
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  @george1421 Yes, sorry to have disturbed you