@steveo (I’m only considering creating fog storage nodes using fog) well since you have so many and they are all physical there should be a way to use FOG to clone the storage nodes. I need to think about the best approach here. But you should be able to install the OS, and at least download the fog repo to the system.

Here is where it get into some speculation.

Now when you install fog, it creates a .fogsettings file. The .fogsettings file lists all of answers to the questions you supplied when you first installed fog. So when you reinstall fog like during an upgrade the installer will reference that file instead of asking the user questions over again. I wonder if we can leverage that by dropping that file in the proper location during storage node image deployment. Then running the installer with the -y command post deployment?? The only caveat here is that you should only install FOG once the storage node has its forever IP address. There is a script to reset the IP address after the fact to. Its just depends on what ever is easiest. You also should probably consider how you will seed the storage node before you send it out to the remote location.

Also during image deployment, you can have the fog master node give the fog storage node its name. Once your storage nodes have been created you won’t need them in the fog database unless you want to reimage them again.

With that many storage nodes, you might consider setting up a dedicated mysql server. Remember that storage nodes don’t have a local database, it uses the database on the master (root) fog server. That will be 400 open connections.

@tom-elliott I expected that may be the case. I did not mean to imply any issue, just observations in case someone is impatient (I almost tried a reboot while it was on #2).

Now its back to trying to get the colors of the menu the way I’d like (https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/11972/ipxe-menu-colors-help).

Thanks

@amerhbb that’s a matter of opinion but I really like it.

@george1421 Yep they are all exactly the same hardware.

What are your thoughts on the Fedora issue I am having?

Thanks again for all your help!

@fallingwax Yes, look in the history table in the database. It’s only available via SQL.

@zago123
Here is a link that explains how to format/create partitions. You will need a Windows boot media. So when you get this up, you will need to identify which partition you want to do which task to (format, create, etc.). Make sure you are careful with this and do the wrong partition by mistake.

Links:

https://davidzych.com/install-windows-10-from-a-usb-flash-drive/

https://davidzych.com/install-windows-10-from-a-usb-flash-drive/

@fredlwal You could go under the host you’re working with, then to basic tasks, then click advanced. That gives you a drop down menu where you should see fast or full/normal wipe towards the bottom.

@Wayne-Workman Ahhh, now I see. Looking at the certificate on the website I see that there was a new one issued not long ago. Certificate date begins at 08.05.2018! Just wondering why I don’t run into the same issue. Maybe your git is keeping some kind of certificate cache?

Thank you for your answers @Wayne-Workman and @Quazz ! Now, I see better what is this software.

I think you could, technically, teach a frog how to create an array, but I suppose you mean fog?

Could anyone help me with just getting the colors as per my original post. I have been in the iPXE General Config | Menu colors, pairing, settings for hours and cant wrap my head around whats whats.

Put simply, here is the color scheme I am aiming for:

title text and selected text to be 0x0077c8 (selected text white background) background black unselected text white

Right now both UEFI and BIOS are greyish title, white selected text with red background, red unselected text. Its really hard on the eyes.

I have been mulling over:
http://ipxe.org/cmd/cpair
http://ipxe.org/cmd/colour

and my boot.php and just cant wrap my head around what changes what. I have tried playing around with it and the results so far have been 100% not what I expected making it impossible to gain any traction on it. Some options I cahnge and expect to see a difference appear to do nothing, others I change and expect a certain element/color to change and something completely different changes.

Thank you

@george1421 Thanks, this seems to work but with installfog.sh -y (without the -U option).

For future readers: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Password_Central

@george1421
Thank you. It is all that I needed to know!

@tom-elliott Great! Thank all of you for the great work!! 🙂

You also have to ask your self “What are the risks of having nfs on your fog server configured this way?” Is the data contained in your images a high value target? Do they conain PII or PCI or regulated data? How could the data contained in these multi-gigabyte images be used against your company or for financial gains of the hackers?

Yes the fog server’s nfs shares are a bit open. You can restrict access with NFS v3 to a range or subnet of IP addresses. NFSv4 could be implemented but other than ticking off a check box what is the real value of the activity? What are you trying to protect?

I can’t answer these questions for you, its based on what your company is trying to protect and the risks of doing something vs nothing.