norton ghost…
i need to create image from fog? how?

We run 50 sites with FOG, and do them as standalone, but with special scripts.

I’ve modified FOG to automatically deploy machine specific drivers post boot, and we sync those driver repositories, and our standard image using rsync.

FOG is so easy to build that it’s no big deal to deploy it everywhere on a VM.

Zabbix (Network monitoring)
Asterisk
Smoothwall (We use their commercial product)
VirtualBox
GNUGk

To answer your question… “yes” but also possibly “no”

It all really depends on what you are attempting to use fog for in conjunction with WDS and how your network is segmented.

Long story short, in plain terms you can have only one DHCP server that controls or “points” to PXE that must be either FOG or WDS, not both.

You could use WDS for imaging and the fog client for software management, inventory, etc.

Or the reverse could be true and have WDS (if there is a client for it) do the management and image with fog.

Hope this answers your questions for you.

Thank you for your answer.
Just to not make a mistake, I have a hundred PCs running Windows XP, but we have to make a master model there in Windows 7.
We want to learn Windows 7 in OS field in anticipation of relocation.
No problem?

I don’t know if I can help you with my experience, But instead of image all computers every day to have the same system I would prefer use Deep Freeze software and maintain windows intact on on reboot. It’s very nice software if you know how to use it.

Kernel-2.6.37.core works for the Acer Aspire 722.

There is not a script that does this. The FOG client does this in reverse, querying FOG for a host with matching MAC, getting the name according to FOG, and renaming the client. If I understand you correctly, you want to do this in reverse. FOG Client getting the local host name and MACs, searching the FOG database for a matching host record, and updating the FOG database with the current computer name.

If you have a C# developer handy, you can add a module to the FOG client that does this, using the existing hostnamechanger module as a reference.

I actually found another user on the forums who posted a similar request to my own. I cross posted there hoping to get more views and thanks to some SQL help from user Moss managed to edit the host report to now include group names.

I’ll post the “edited highlights” here but if someone would like the complete php file or if it’s permitted to post here I can do so

Firstly I downloaded a copy of the [B]Host List.php[/B] file from [B]/var/www/fog/management/reports/[/B] to work on

Under the echo ( “<div>” ); section I added this line:

[CODE]$report->addCSVCell(_(“Group Name”));[/CODE]

then the SQL reads now as:

[CODE]$sql = "SELECT
*
FROM
hosts
left outer join images on ( hostImage = imageID )
left outer join supportedOS on ( hostOS = osID )
left outer join groupMembers on ( hostID = gmHostID)
left outer join groups on ( gmGroupID = groupID)
";[/CODE]

And lastly add this to the last array section

[CODE]$report->addCSVCell($ar[“groupName”]);[/CODE]

I actually stripped out a number of things to keep the report more concise for my own use - I only really want to see which bank of desks a particular pc is sitting at. From the looks of things if you know your SQL and/or PHP or are prepared to learn it (or like me cobble something together from the existing code and a lot of forum searches) the reporting feature can do quite a lot.

Hope this helps someone else out there.

cheers (and apologies to mods for cross threading - won’t happen again 🙂 )

Glad you managed to sort it, SQL is also on my ever-growing list of things to learn.

You can image solaris if you use RAW image type I think. It does a DD copy and is slow, but may be what you need.

Yeah, its feature rich, and to be honest, its not slow at imaging or anything, its just very quirky. We’re running the new version and one of the guys is about to run the service pack on it. I’m just really not sold on it. It feels so uncomfortable to use and things seem to take forever to update and propagate down to the site servers. For instance, adding a machine to a deployment list takes hours to update sometimes, and other times only 10-15 minutes. As far as I am concerned, if its not there almost instantly, what use is it.

Fog is just stripped down and lightening fast. I’m wondering if there are any plans in future versions to add many more features to the project? How many of the suggested features actually make it into production copys of new FOG versions?

help -> trophies

I have read this article: [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577[/url] remember now that I got some issues with license key in the past, thanks Kevin for your help, anyway I’ll test this and will come back to you with feedback.

Thanks Chad,

I found this - [url]http://www.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/FOGUserGuide#Full_Listing_of_Ports_used_by_FOG_server_and_client[/url]

Curious which of those would be required for snapin management/deployment.

Problem solved. I found a sneaky little 10/100 switch that was causing the pile up. Mods you can take this tread down.