Thanks! I will give that a try.

Found a solution that works for me. I deleted all of the computers and reimported them. I added a number string to the description field that I can search by to add them to groups. All of these laptops are stored on shelves with 15 per row and 6 shelves down, so a total of 90 per shelf. I numbered them in groups of 15. So my numbering scheme is: room they are in, shelving unit number, actual shelf then laptop order number. So looks like this: The first computer is E505010101 (E505 is the room). Last computer on bottom shelf unit 1 is: E505010615. This allow me to search for E50501 and pull up all 90 at once, or search in groups of 15. Is working well for me.

Any other ideas for another way of doing?

x23: Thanks, using that seemed to solve my problem - I appreciate the info - I hadn’t even noticed that entry, I’m still really new to FOG 🙂

Thanks a lot for the replies! Certainly a lot to digest but I’m willing! Jaymes, I really appreciate you taking the time it took to write all of that. I may very well take you up on the offer of working together with you on the walk through process.

Some MACs are formatted with dashes, other with colons, others without anything. FOG needs colons. 11:22:33:aa:bb:cc is valid. 11-22-33-aa-bb-cc is invalid, 112233aabbcc is invalid.

I’d go with Chad’s first suggestion. Keep in mind that if the zip file is larger than 1900 MB, then you’ll need to make some changes to the config before the snapin will execute.

You can try to remove them through FTP or NFS. I believe you can get the FOG users password from the webUI and use it to FTP into the machine and delete the images files.

sorry, yes you’re right regarding the process. it is alot of core changes you need to make to include this as you would need to edit the init.gz to include rsync and would also need to include the location patch to determine which storage node to pull it from:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/requested-multi-site-location-patch-requested.410/#post-4570[/url]

however this is coded based on 0.31 and it’s not being included in the future releases but may be able to use the new core and hook functionality to include this but this is all on hold really until 0.33 is ready for production.

So to summarize you would need to make alot of changes to use it in this way - maybe someone else has simpler solution to suggest?

Just in case this process would benefit others out there…what I wound up doing is setting up a large samba share on the FOG server and adding an Acronis iso to the pxe menu. That allows us to push a unique disk-to-image-file backup directly from a client system to the FOG server’s samba share without going through the registration process. I was hesitant to go this way because I thought having two processes for imaging would be messy, however it’s turned out to be a great! We use the FOG side for bare metal imaging of new systems and we use the Acronis / Samba side for backing up incoming systems before we work on them. This keeps the FOG server nice and clean and the separation is a better setup for me because when it’s time to purge old client system backups there’s no worry of mistakenly deleting a production image.

Thanks to everyone involved in the fog project. It’s just awesome!

Scott.

I love this actually working with the device instead of just punching buttons…reminds me of the good old days of DOS. I look forward to working with everyone.

btw…after all of that I decided to put it on a different box. I would have loved to troubleshot why it wasn’t working correctly, but a deadline was looming so I killed it and reimaged the workstations again…took far less time than the first.

[quote=“thomas Bollig, post: 12433, member: 4211”]Thanks again for the info. Here is a little more info for you
My etc/export on the FOG server is

/mnt/images *(ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure)
/mnt/images/dev *(rw,sync,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure)

and on the NFS server
/images 10.32.3.27/22 (rw,sync,no_root_squash,)
/mnt/images 10.32.3.27/22 (ro,sync,no_wdelay,insecure_locks,no_root_squash,insecure)
/mnt/images/dev 10.32.3.27/22 (rw,sync,no_wdelay,no_root_squash,insecure)

Fog Server Permission on /mnt/images
drwxrwxrwx 2 nobody nobody 37 May 30 07:06 dev
-rw-r–r-- 1 nobody nobody 0 May 29 11:58 mntcheck
[root@fog ~]#

NFS Server permissions on /images
drwxrwxrwx 2 fog root 37 May 30 09:06 dev
-rw-r–r-- 1 fog root 0 May 29 13:58 mntcheck
-rwxrwxrwx 1 fog root 0 May 29 12:46 .mntcheck
drwxrwxrwx 4 fog root 29 May 29 12:11 .Trash-0[/quote]

Also there is not authentication needed to access the nfs

Hi,

all relevant changes to the kernel are made if you compile it yourself, there is a wiki articel that describes howto do that.
If you have brand new hw you need to compile your own kernel.

Greetz X23

Hi,

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 12304, member: 18”]Thank you for being multi-lingual so I don’t have to be :)[/quote]

you don’t like the german speech? 😉

Greetz X23

I’d suggest adding in the following lines right after “ntfs-3g -o force,rw $part /ntfs”:

[CODE]printf “Error Message: $?\n”;
sleep 10;[/CODE]

Or use echo instead of printf. Just to see if there’s anything useful in there.

Tried finding the exit codes online, but it looks like the fastest way to find them would be to pull up the ntfs-3g man page from the console to see what the exit codes are (here’s the reference page which suggests doing that):
[url]http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-manual/#9[/url]

[PHP]// Computer Information
$report->appendHTML( “<h4><u>”.(“Computer Information”).“</u></h4>” );
$report->appendHTML( “<h4><b>”.(“Serial Number / Equip Name”).“: </b><u>” . $ar[“iSysserial”] . " / " . $ar[“hostName”] . “</u></h4>" );
$report->appendHTML( “<h4><b>”.(“Barcode Numbers”).“: </b><u>” . $ar[“iOtherTag”] . "</u></h4>" );
$report->appendHTML( “<h4><b>”.(“Date of Checkout”).“: </b>”.date(“Y/m/d”)." </h4>" );
$report->appendHTML( “<h4><b>”.(“Notes / Miscellaneous / Included Items”).“: </b></h4>” );
$report->appendHTML( "<h4><b></b></h4>" );
$report->appendHTML( "<h4><b></b></h4>" );
$report->appendHTML( "<h4><b>___________________________________________</b></h4>" );
$report->appendHTML( “<hr />” );
$report->appendHTML( “<h4><b>”.(“Releasing Staff Initials”).": </b> ".(“(To be released only by DPJ IT Dept.)”).“</h4>” );
$report->appendHTML( “<h4>”.(“I have read, understood, and agree to all the Terms and Condidtions on the following pages of this document.”).“</h4>” );
$report->appendHTML( “<br />” );
$report->appendHTML( “<h4><b>”.(“Signed”).": </b>X _____________________________ ".(“Date”).": //20</h4>" );
$report->appendHTML( ("<!-- ".(“NEW PAGE”)." -->") );
$report->appendHTML( "<!-- ".(“FOOTER CENTER”)." “” . ‘$PAGE’ . " ".(“of”)." " . ‘$PAGES’ . " - ".(“Printed”).“: " . date(“D M j G:i:s T Y”) . “” -->” );
$report->appendHTML( “<center><h3>”.(“Terms and Conditions”).“</h3></center>” );
$report->appendHTML( “<hr />” );
$report->appendHTML( “<h4>”.(“All loaned items should be returned in the same condition they were recieved, with all items included on this sheet.”).“</h4>” );
$report->appendHTML( “<h4><b>”.(“Signed”).“: </b>”.(“X”)." _____________________________ ".(“Date”).": //20</h4>” );
[/PHP]

Hi,

you mean the function was switched off not removed, it’s still there in the webif and service client but without any function?!
Am i right if i say the host registration is depricated?

Will the leftover be removed in 0.33?
Can someone tell me why this function has been deactivated?

Greetz X23

Hi,

[quote=“chad-bisd, post: 12057, member: 18”]Do this and your questions should answer themselves.[/quote]

assigned! 😉

Greetz X23

So I figured it out. Capone adds an option to the PXE boot menu, which is great, but my menu is not stock, and the automatic entry it adds was failing. Fix that and it boots fine.

So, it is possible to set Capone to use a different NFS/TFTP/Web server if you want to. The script calls on what is defined in the PXE boot option, not what FOG uses for settings.