@Dominique I can’t promise that, no.

1.5.10 is the original release, and it is a long way behind now. It was built and tested against PHP 7.x. It may run fine on PHP 8, but I don’t know which PHP 8 version, if any, would be safe for it.

What we do know works on PHP 8 is the current stable branch. Here is how the branches fit together:

master is the official 1.5.10 release. We don’t work on it directly. dev-branch is where all the bug fixes and maintenance happen. stable gets everything from dev-branch rolled into it once a month.

So stable is 1.5.10 plus a few years of fixes, PHP 8 support among them.

If you want to move to PHP 8 before 1.6.0 comes out, I’d do it in this order:

Snapshot the server first, so you can roll back. Update FOG to the stable branch and run the installer. Do this while you are still on PHP 7.2. Then move PHP to 8.2. On Red Hat 8 the installer will not do that for you; it installs whichever PHP module is enabled. Run dnf module reset php then dnf module enable php:8.2, then dnf distro-sync. Re-run the FOG installer, so it picks up the new PHP packages. Test the web console, a host registration, and a unicast and a multicast deploy before you call it done.

Since this is production, your plan to wait for 1.6.0 and try the RC in a test environment first is a good one too.

Thanks @Tom-Elliott . That actually makes a lot more sense now. 😁

I saw the greyed-out “Mass edit” button, but hadn’t worked out that I had to select multiple items (turn them blue) from the filtered list of hosts in order to be able to use that button to set values across multiple entries. Once I did, it worked as intended.

@Cpasjuste I just wanted to let you know that I’ve added in your method of using userland NFS support to my container. I have given you credit for the method in the README. I’d love for you to test it out if/when you get a chance. Thank you again for your work!

Now I read the AI summary and got what I need:

It stores one row for each address in the hostNetwork table. Limits of this method The sleeping host must run fog-agent. The server uses the sleeping host’s own last report to find its subnet. A host with the legacy FOG Client, or with no client, has no rows, so the relay cannot help it. The old path still runs for it.

So If I populate the hostNetwork table for the hosts that I need manually, It will work. Thank you for the details.

@ahaeder No:

The idea of fog client is to rename the host based on what you name the computer within FOG, not the other way around.

If you want it to be a specific name, and you have the FOG Client installed, set the wanted name in the FOG UI, and the host will change automatically.

@Valer This should be fixed in latest/greatest

@Tom-Elliott said in Wiping Drive via PXE menu:

@vanfifty1 Sweet so it is functional and seems to be much more verbose about the actions it’s performing, thank you!

Thank you!

With the experimental init.xz when it said the following in my case: “Erasing /dev/nvme0n1 with an NVMe sanitize block erase (sanact 2)” does this mean the following command was run?: nvme sanitize /dev/nvme0n1 -a 2

Does this mean the bug is patched? Should I use the experimental init.xz file on the production FOG server? What ramifications will this have? Is it better to wait until this is released in an official version down the road?

@Alun Thank you and added to documentation and within the installer to try to more cleanly account for this.

@Tom-Elliott

Ah man that’s exactly what I needed. Thanks so much sir!

@hariskar

I didn’t really catch the described use case…
But anyway, if application stores something in the database, then the database need to be backed up, of course. Fully and incrementally also (separate logic).

If you use application that stores data in the same machine where it is installed, better would be to configure it to store data on the remote database, e.g on specific database server or some other way.
You can create network drive or other remote storage and point your database files there - if needed to be separate (for each PC).

This way you have all the data in the same place, and you can make backups of this server or drive more easilly.

Backuping entire PC with database in it - this can be done, but why?
It feels strange.

Example:
Lets say, employees in your company are working with important documents.
Do you really want to backup of entire PC (with os and applications and data), instead of storing those documents on secure and reliable remote storage?
Better solution is to simply make network location (local or in cloud) and let the users to store documents there - so the documents would not be lost if some pc dies.
If PC dies, then you simply replace the pc and deploy ready to use system image.

@trent_potter Yes you figured it out. Sysprep is a Windows utility, it has nothing to do with FOG. It is always recommended to sysprep before capturing an image.

In Reports Menu, Imaging Log You will find this information.

@george1421 I have installed fog with DHCP server but DNS doesn’t work at all (no dns server appear on windows client) so I’m stuck.
It’s my first time installing DHCP and DNS on Debian so I think I made mistakes.
DHCP work fine.

edit : It’s fixed. I forgot to add “option domain-name” and “option domain-name-servers” in dhcpd.conf

For the script, I think it must be simple to set FOG as DHCP server at startup if after 10 min no IP is given from a DHCP server then set server to static IP and start DHCP and DNS services.
And then reverse this at shutdown.
Maybe this can be done manually first.

edit : Here is the first script.
I have create files ending with .dhcp for conf for external DHCP/DNS and file ending with .static for conf for local DHCP/DNS.
It looks to work fine.

# Configuration actuelle echo "Etat DNS local :" systemctl is-active bind9 echo "Etat DHCP local :" systemctl is-active isc-dhcp-server echo "" loc(){ # Configuration DHCP local echo "DHCP local" # Configuration if [ -e /etc/network/interfaces.static ] then echo "Copie interfaces" cp /etc/network/interfaces.static /etc/network/interfaces else echo "interfaces.static not found" exit 1 fi echo "Redemarrage service reseau" systemctl restart networking.service if [ -e /etc/resolv.conf.static ] then echo "Copie resolv.conf" cp /etc/resolv.conf.static /etc/resolv.conf else echo "resolv.conf.static not found" exit 1 fi # Services systemctl start bind9 systemctl start isc-dhcp-server } ext(){ # Configuration DHCP externe echo "DHCP externe" # Configuration if [ -e /etc/network/interfaces.dhcp ] then echo "Copie interfaces" cp /etc/network/interfaces.dhcp /etc/network/interfaces else echo "interfaces.dhcp not found" exit 1 fi echo "Redemarrage service reseau" systemctl restart networking.service if [ -e /etc/resolv.conf.dhcp ] then echo "Copie resolv.conf" cp /etc/resolv.conf.dhcp /etc/resolv.conf else echo "resolv.conf.dhcp not found" exit 1 fi # Services systemctl stop bind9 systemctl stop isc-dhcp-server } # Demande de Configuration while true; do read -p "Voulez vous passer en DHCP externe ou en DHCP local? (e:externe l:local) " el case $el in [Ee]* ) ext; break;; [Ll]* ) loc; break;; * ) echo "Please answer yes or no.";; esac done