George’s steps will absolutely work - because George is just that kind of guy. His stuff works. I am so sure of this that I didn’t even read what he wrote - I just assume he’s correct.

But I’ve faced this exact problem before and I solved it by adding the storage node as the master to my new server’s default group. This way replication goes from the old storage node -> New server. I let that run and sync - and after it was done I removed master from the old node and applied master to the new one. Of course image definitions must exist on the new server for this to happen - you have to recreate these either way.

Related article: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Replication

There are several documents that will get you started.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=CentOS_7

It is now recommended that you change selinux setting to permissive and not disabled as it appears in some documentation. Also if you need to leave the firewall enabled you can do that. The developers has provided some guidance on what firewalld rules need to be configured. Or you can just disable the firewalld service as outlined in the docs. Its also best practices to create a new vmdk (virtual disk) for your images and then mount the new vmdk onto the root partition over the /images directory. I have a document on doing that if you need.

At its most basic step its just installing centos 7 selecting bare minimum configuration, then installing wget, git, and then downloading the fog installers.

This one is a bit dated and created by some third party, but the steps are almost the same today: http://blog.ibuddy.info/index.php/2015/06/fog-v-1-3-on-centos-7-full-install-guide/

@maximillian Keep us posted, I am VERY interested to see your work/what you find!

@Sebastian-Roth said in Using FOG with older OS? (Win2000 or even 98/ME, earlier OSX/Linux):

Right now we have support for btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, fat(12/16/32), hfs+, ntfs, xfs as those seem to be the filesystems that most people use.

that being said, some of those we don’t test much. not too many people are deploying systems on fat(12/16/32) these days. so, let us know how it goes.

Huh, simply change the Git repo… Perfect, worked a charm! Thanks, Wayne!

@fredlwal

Do you have a webfilter appliance?

You may have to add launchpad.net to the whitelist, or the bypass list so that the traffic is not monitored?

We filter all traffic anything ssl gets decrypted and sent down to the client (basically a man in the middle) and I had to add the url to the bypass list so the traffic is not decrypted.

I could get to the website fine, but I saw issues with adding the repository. (I even added the repo to the sources.list which helped some but not completely.)

@Tom-Elliott If I convert the disk to GPT (which wipes over the clone). After I clone the drive again (after converting disk to GPT) I will need to segment the drive in 4TB partitions (excluding OS partition). Since there will be several partitions (ex. (2) 4TB partitions) how will this need to be setup up in FOG regarding images moved across several partitions?

I did do this at my last job for one classroom.

We had mixed models in there, some were Lenovo, some Dell. I hate mixed model rooms. But anyways…

I had three groups for that classroom. One for the whole room, one for the Lenovos, one for the Dells.

Before deployment, I would use the classroom group to ensure exactly and only the snapins I wanted were set for the entire room, the right printers, the right AD Credentials.

Then with the two sub-groups I set the image I wanted each model to have.

Then I would deploy the Lenovos and Dells separately using their groups. Both groups would wake, image, boot, join the domain, deploy snapins and printers.

Like magic.

@Schuede Please check:

FOG Configuration Page->FOG Settings->Web Server->FOG_WEB_ROOT and make sure it’s set to /fog.

There is no function like that in fog. You could create a FOG snapin (deployment package) to do something similar. But the prompting will still be an issue. That capability doesn’t exist today.

@danpbow create a batch script (with .bat extension) to do exactly as you need.

At the end of the wmic command tack on output redirection like > \\x.x.x.x\my_share$\%computername%.txt

Ending a share name with $ in windows makes it undiscoverable, this is a security thing I recommend you do. The share should allow read/write in the share and security tabs for anonymous logon - this is because the fog client runs as system on the local machine.

Once the script is working manually, you would create a new snapin and use the batch template and upload the script. Then just try it out on a few hosts in fog web interface.

Go to Fog Configuration --> Fog Settings --> General Settings --> Check the box next to FOG_FTP_IMAGE_SIZE

This might cause your image page to load slower depending on how many images you have.

@chris.dees I started to create a POC document of what you might be looking for in this tutorial. https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9449/dynamic-fog-replicator-transfer-rates The mechanics of the script work on my test system.

The idea is to create the ability to change the transfer (bit) rates used by the replicator service based on the time of day. While this isn’t exactly what you want the same concepts can be applied to start and stop the replicator service based on time of day.

The follow commands to stop and start the replicator service.

On a sysv based system
service FOGImageReplicator stop
service FOGImageReplicator start

Or on a systemd based system
systemctl stop FOGImageReplicator.service
systemctl start FOGImageReplicator.service

@Tony-Ayre just wanted to acknowledge that this is definitely a limitation of FOG backend that we were handed when @Tom-Elliott picked up this project. Our current rewrite addresses this problem (and most scaling problems), but it’ll be a quite a bit before FOG 2.0 is ready.

@dureal99d said in How does fog see drives in a system:

Linux sees my drive as /dev/sdc1, however a booting fog sees my same boot drive drive as /dev/sdd1

Make sure you don’t have any SD cards stuck in the system. Also is the hard disk a hybrid drive (flash and mechanical)? Did you install Linux on the system or are you just live booting from a flash drive?

Can we get the output of lsblk please?

Good to know… Thanks

@Tom-Elliott Ok Thank You!!!

I see. Thanks everyone for your help. For this customer, we’ll just use USB’s initially (since they told us yesterday they’d changed their deployment method and we need it by Friday…) and then see if we can work to a better long-term solution after that.

Thanks everyone!

@Wayne-Workman There’s already reports for this. Login History, and Hosts and users.

This would not present the info on the host management page.

A hook can/should be used to perform this if you really feel it necessary though.

@Tom-Elliott

Fantastic!