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  Useful Scripts
  • Tom Elliott

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  That’s really cool.

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  Organizations Using FOG
  • Tom Elliott

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  Organization Name: Vistex, Inc.
  Location: Corporate Office - Hoffman Estates, Illinois, USA
  Approximate Number of systems: 1600 laptops/75 desktops
  How long: Since 2017
  12 Satellite Offices Worldwide each running a FOG server locally (VM)

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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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  Which Linux distro(s) have been tested with FOG - What is recommended?
  • JYost

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  @JYost For the distro decision you might want to check out the “Daily Clean Installation Results” in Wayne’s signature.

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  Move partitions on GPT layouts - need people to test
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  @btoffolon said in Move partitions on GPT layouts - need people to test:

  /dev/sda3 : start= 239616, size= 80978882, ... /dev/sda4 : start= 249022976, size= 1046528, ...

  Looks like FOS was not able to move the 4th partition forward as the start sector number is the same in both files.

  Create a new image definition for testing. Then assign this new image to the host you capture from and schedule a debug capture task. Boot it up and hit ENTER twice to get to the command shell. Now run the simple command fog to start capturing and step through the process. At some point you see it print the partition tables on screen. Take a picture of all that and post here. If unsure what to take a photo of, take some more, upload all pictures to a file share and post a link here.

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  UEFI and Legacy Bios coexistence with SonicWall DHCP
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  @yeet said in UEFI and Legacy Bios coexistence with SonicWall DHCP:

  Problem is we use our SonicWall for DHCP

  Yes this can be a problem if your SonicWall doesn’t support dynamic boot options. The quickest and most direct route is to install dnsmasq on your FOG server to supply only the pxe boot information. Your sonicwall will supply all other dhcp settings except pxe booting.

  I have a tutorial on how to add dnsmasq in about 10 minutes to your FOG server here:https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12796/installing-dnsmasq-on-your-fog-server

  If your pxe booting computers are on a different subnet than your fog server, you will need to update your dhc-relay/dhcp-helper service on your subnet router. Add the fog server as the last dhcp server in the helper service. Then everything will just work. If everyone is on the same subnet then just install dnsmasq and it will work.

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  running a fog server on qnap nas?
  • nofroyo

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  @nofroyo I would not attempt to install FOG directly on your QNAP device. The fog installer assumes it has full control of your device and may make changes that could potentially break the web ui of your QNAP. The other issue you have to consider is that the libraries needed install FOG may not be available because your QNAP doesn’t run a standard linux OS.

  Running inside a vm would be a better choice is you MUST run everything on a single device. Performance may no be so great since most NAS devices use low end CPUs because NAS activities don’t require much CPU. If you are only doing image deployment without any FOG Clients in the mix it may be OK to use it on your NAS as a VM. I don’t know if anyone has done this before so you can be the first.

  FOG doesn’t really need a lot of CPU, in a way it functions much like a NAS in that the FOG server’s job is moving data between storage and the network adapter. The target computer does all of the real heavy lifting during imaging, I’ve run FOG on a Pi3 and Pi4 without issue. You have to just be mind full that you are dealing with a small but efficient computer.

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  Use HTTP instead of TFTP for fetching WIM files
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  Success! Dropped the files into /var/www and used set web-path to ${fog-ip}. In case anyone else has this issue this is my iPXE menu item parameters:
  set tftp-path tftp://${fog-ip}/os
  set web-path http://${fog-ip}
  set pe-path ${web-path}/pm11_winpe
  kernel ${tftp-path}/wimboot gui
  imgfetch --name BCD ${pe-path}/BCD BCD
  imgfetch --name boot.sdi ${pe-path}/boot.sdi boot.sdi
  imgfetch --name bootmgr ${pe-path}/bootmgr bootmgr
  imgfetch --name boot.wim ${pe-path}/boot.wim boot.wim
  boot || goto MENU

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  FOG on Raspberry Pi
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  @develroo I’ve had the FOG server running on raspberry pi 2 for quite a while. That is the 1.4.x series. For fog 1.5.x you should run that on a Pi3 or Pi4. The matter of fact, for fog imaging a Pi is more than enough for hosting the fog server. Now realize that the scope of service is for imaging a small number of system and no computers running the FOG client. The Pi4 is a bit more capable with 1GbE networking and USB3 for externally attached sata drives. The Pi 2 suffers with 100Mbs networking and USB2. The Pi3 has 1GbE networking and USB2.

  For FOG imaging all the Pi needs to do is monitor the imaging process and move the image from local storage to the network adapter. The target computer does all of the heavy lifting. So the Pi3-4 is more than enough for acting as a limited or mobile FOG server.

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  Capturing an image from Vendor X laptop and deploying to Vendor Y laptop?
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  @george1421

  Good to know. I’ve been rolling with the same script since Win7 and likely would not have looked at another way to do it short of it failing to run on a new version.

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  Automate Snapins to run after deployment?
  • danieln

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  @danieln I just realized that the persistent group plugin is not very well documented. It is covered a bit here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/8836/basic-persistent-groups-and-1-3-0rc16

  The executive summary is

  Add the Persistent group plugin Manually create a new host with a unique name that signifies it is a template host. Associate all of the snapins and what not that you want consistent for every host added to the group. Create a new Group that is exactly the same name as the template host. Now add hosts to this group (you can do this when you are registering the new computer with FOG too).

  The settings will be copied over from the template host to the new host.

  The workaround is just a patch file that needs to be replace on the FOG server. Replace this file BEFORE you install the plugin. If the plugin is installed before you add the patch file, uninstall the plugin then add it back.

  We are discussing the discovered bug here: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/15084/persistent-groups-snapins-added-to-host-but-not-deployed

  The thread also has the temporary patch file link.

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  Change default answer of the "Perform Full Host Registration and Inventory"
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  It works great !

  Thanks a lot !

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  Backup program
  • d3fuentes

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  With apologies for the necropost, I’m looking at exactly this question at the moment. My thinking is you could possibly pair FOG with Relax-and-Recover or SystemImager for a complete backup/image/bare metal restore solution.

  Looks like you would be able to add a Relax-and-Recover (ReaR) menu item to FOG’s menu for a full network-based restore, in the event of disaster. Since FOG can be used as a scheduler and general-purpose task executer, it is entirely possible to run one of these open source “live backup” solutions alongside FOG - i.e. on the same server.

  I also note that ReaR can deal with UEFI/MD RAID situations, which seems to be a rare gift.

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  Fully automated UEFI-based O/S installation (Debian 10)
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  @george1421 Done.

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  Headquarters Address for FOG?
  • boriquaboy115

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  @boriquaboy115 FOG is an opensource project. AFAIK there is no physical location where The FOG Project exists. One of the developers might know for tax reasons if there is a specific mailing address.

  As I said, The FOG Project is an opensource project with developers around the world. The senior developer that approves releases is based in the USA.

  If you need this information for federal regulatory submission reasons, you may have a hard time getting opensource software approved for use.

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  capture a image over the fog boot menu
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  @ktif14 Sorry for the late reply. No, it’s not as easy as creating a new iPXE menu entry because a task needs to be created in the database. This can be done either by using the FOG web UI or the FOG API but not through the iPXE menu.

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  Local deploy Image
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  @noithatgooccho There are different ways of getting what you are calling a “local cache”. Though the solutions have different restrictions or requirements.

  Install a normal FOG master node in that location (no connection to the other server), register all your local hosts in that new server (it’s own database), create image definitions and manually copy the image files over to that server. Every time the image on the pre-existing FOG server is changed you need to manually copy the image over again. But local hosts can also capture an image to that new FOG server in that location.

  Install a FOG storage node in that location - which needs to be able to constantly contact your pre-existing FOG master node to query information from the central database. The image files will be replicated from the pre-existing master node to the new storage node once (every time the image changes) - no manual copying needed. The hosts in that location can pull (deploy) an image from that new storage node (local cache) in unicast mode. But be aware that hosts in that location can only upload/capture an image to the pre-existing master node, not to the local storage node.

  So it depends on what you want to achieve.

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  Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop live
  • seppim

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  @seppim said in Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop live:

  http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/eoan/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz

  Thank you Ubuntu… Try this link: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/focal/main/installer-amd64/current/legacy-images/netboot/

  Ubuntu 19.10 has been removed from existence so the previous links are now broken.

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  Capture Ubuntu 20.04 just free diskspace
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  @sebastian-roth Hi Sebastian,

  thank you!

  Well, the 3 partitions are because of the Ubuntu software Raid.

  I need the Raid to prevent system halt, because the server is not local monitoring. so no one will check if the HDD goes failed.

  I finish my setup and try to capture … as long he copy 1:1 the HDD for the backup its fine