@Tom-Elliott Oh well now I just feel silly! Oh Well, all is a good learning curve, and a good introduction. It helped me understand what was going on behind the very well laid out GUI! Im very impressed with this product and cant believe its Open Source. I am going to make a business case to the FD for some sort of donation. I work for a charity, so who knows how well that will go??

Nonetheless, it was all very interesting!

@george1421 Alright, so here’s what I’m going to do.

I’ve got an old PFsense box that I set up to handle DHCP, and it can hand the clients off to FOG. This will happen on a separate subnet on the FOG servers second NIC. I’ll still be hooked up to the core network via the first NIC for easy access and management to the box.

This way I can have my unmanaged switch, and be open to multicasting.

Now that it is an option, it kind of goes back to my original question; if I’m going to image via multicast, my understanding is that it takes some setup, with making the group and registering hosts. I won’t be able to use quick image for this will I?

Thanks for all of the useful replies! We’ll use one of these iterations for our inventory when we start deployment in the next week or two.

Cheers,

Joe

@adukes40 You can only limit the number going at once for unicast as @Quazz said, not the bandwidth. The bit rate is a throttle for multicast. The replication rate is a throttle for replication.

Multicast only works from master nodes. Enable broadcast forwarding on your router and it’ll start working at other sites. You have to enable the same thing for WOL to work at other sites I believe, there’s a plugin to assist with WOL.

yeh svn info worked.

im on 5721

Many thanks

@adukes40 You may like DameWare. It’s just my personal opinion. I think the software works for X number of days as a trial without license.

With 12 systems it may be simpler to setup an MDT server to deploy with. To do this right you should have a MS Volume License key and then create your reference image (master, golden, mother, etc) with MDT. For 12 systems I would stop there. If you were going to deploy more than 50 systems per year then I would take the next step and setup a FOG server. Capture your golden image with FOG and then deploy from there. If you setup FOG and your golden image properly you can use a single golden image for all of your hardware fleet. Since you are using Dell hardware, they (Dell) made the driver collection part pretty easy for you.

Don’t let the MS VL key scare you off. You only need one per OS type you are deploying. That will give you reimaging rights that the OEM license doesn’t. Meaning if you purchase 1 VL Key for Windows 10 Pro you can deploy an unlimited number of Windows 10 Pro where Windows 10 Pro was already installed on the target hardware via a preexisting OEM license. To purchase into the MS Volume license program you need 5 points. The Windows 10 Pro VLK counts as 1 point, just add 4 other items to get to your 5 points (Like server client access licenses, you can never have too many of those and they are pretty cheap).

@gretsch your issue the the legacy client’s PrinterManager should be fixed if you update your server.

@Joe-Schmitt Yeah you’re probably right. Maybe my view on this is a little naive but it hurts to see such great project possibly die.
But because you mention it I will donate to fog project.

@Wayne-Workman I just used Ubuntu 14 and it works now. Thanks again for the help.

In Storage Management and possibly FOG Configuration as well Tom means I suppose.

@george1421 Just got the new master pushed up, and the M.2’s are now working great.

@Tom-Elliott Did i read somewhere not too long ago that the svn way is going away??? We would have to use git?

@george1421 I’ll give it a try. Dont need a fancy report, just a listing would suffice, I was going g to cross reference it with inventory to see if it has been relied, or trashed. Thanks George

Thanks all for the replies. I agree with george1421 in that I’d be willing to pay/donate for this feature. Just wanted to make sure I hadn’t missed something in looking for it.

@Wayne-Workman

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Cant get log files as restored back to snapshot.

Will try an upgrade again later.

Thanks

That’s pretty slick… fog service updated itself before I could even get into the host that had it installed!