Thats excellent, thank you Sebastian for taking the time to reply, I’ll get onto that code now, that’s what I’m after.

And yes, the find/awk trick was also what I was looking for, who needs docs, like you say, it’s in the code 🙂

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There is some information available here: https://news.fogproject.org/simplified-api-documentation/

@Wayne-Workman has some examples of the API. https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9779/can-i-use-some-kind-of-script-to-create-image-and-ghost-my-lab-machines/12

by history: i always use it with - (minus) 😄

Syntax: shutdown [/i | /l | /s | /sg | /r | /g | /a | /p | /h | /e | /o] [/hybrid] [/soft] [/fw] [/f] [/m \\Computer][/t xxx][/d [p:]xx:yy [/c "Kommentar"]]

I call it good development 😉

@wayne-workman
Thx. I figured out where was the issue. Maybe this info will help somebody.
I use curl under Windows, but command line doesn’t support single quotes '.
I used " and had to escape inner ones
–data “{\“hostID\”:13}”

@joseph-hales That article needs overhauled I suppose. Probably re-titled too. I’ll see what I can do.

As @wayne-workman said me, I post the output of my dual system: W10 LTSB 2016 and Ubuntu 16.04

root@U032668:~# gdisk -l /dev/sda GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: present Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT. Disk /dev/sda: 500118192 sectors, 238.5 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 611A1A7F-D5E7-4EB5-87EF-D447B71A8595 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 500118158 Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries Total free space is 924269 sectors (451.3 MiB) Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 923648 1128447 100.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition 2 1128448 1161215 16.0 MiB 0C01 Microsoft reserved ... 3 1161216 205961215 97.7 GiB 0700 Basic data partition 4 205961216 483586047 132.4 GiB 8300 5 483586048 500117503 7.9 GiB 8200 root@U032668:~# lsblk NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 238,5G 0 disk ├─sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part /boot/efi ├─sda2 8:2 0 16M 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 97,7G 0 part ├─sda4 8:4 0 132,4G 0 part / └─sda5 8:5 0 7,9G 0 part [SWAP] sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom root@U032668:~# blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="A47A-9C4F" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI system partition" PARTUUID="90659379-55aa-43cc-a916-7909278e69d2" /dev/sda2: PARTLABEL="Microsoft reserved partition" PARTUUID="ff774eb9-c85f-4dae-aac5-9a8efd46e7b4" /dev/sda3: UUID="385A3AFA5A3AB48A" TYPE="ntfs" PARTLABEL="Basic data partition" PARTUUID="54366076-6bce-46ae-9046-8528edf1876f" /dev/sda4: UUID="e3fa93df-c9a8-4b1c-bcaf-7886256709cb" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="c1db2263-cf34-4d82-9954-2484e2c8bdde" /dev/sda5: UUID="c2fec154-bb2c-454c-ad54-8ca7ab1af203" TYPE="swap" PARTUUID="530e6d65-e5d7-4f4c-bb3b-44ccc6305467" root@U032668:~# pvdisplay El programa «pvdisplay» no está instalado. Puede instalarlo escribiendo: apt install lvm2 root@U032668:~# lgdisplay No se ha encontrado la orden «lgdisplay», quizás quiso decir: La orden «lvdisplay» del paquete «lvm2» (main) La orden «vgdisplay» del paquete «lvm2» (main) lgdisplay: no se encontró la orden root@U032668:~# lvdisplay El programa «lvdisplay» no está instalado. Puede instalarlo escribiendo: apt install lvm2

@george1421 said in Detect Windows Boot/Recovery/Reserved/System partitions reliably:

These files would need to be named uniquely global (i.e. not having natural language variants).

Good point George! Though I am fairly sure this is the case for some files that are used for booting the OS like bootmgr and such files.

Guys I should also have some new HP tablets coming in soon probably using the same kind of hardware so I will update those as soon as I get my hands on them.

http://store.hp.com/us/en/mdp/laptops/hp-elite-x2-1012#tab=features

@pecata As George said it can only be done of source and destination disk are identical in size (sector count!). To achieve what you requested you’d have to capture and deploy an image fully at least once. Then I’d advice you create another image definition in the web UI where you set it to capture only c:\ (take a look at windows disk management tool to see if it is partition number two - likely). Capture this from the same source PC as you did initially capture the full image. Now you are able to deploy this single partition image to other PCs.

@msi Well, this has nothing to do with FOG in general. Tell your DNS admins to add entries for the IP to name resolution within your local network and you will be able to use the name instead of IP for the web management. Though the clients will still use the IP but that doesn’t matter to you I reckon.

@zorderelda The info you are looking for, unfortunately doesn’t exist outside of the brains of the developers. And I agree we really need to get some documentation on this to grow the list of available plugins.

I’ve done some tweaking of a few plugins and I can say they are not difficult but also a pita at the same time.

I worked on / with 2 plugins the LDAP and the Persistent Groups.

The persistent groups was created by the developers to aid in installing a sql trigger that simulates persistent groups in FOG. It is the most simple one with no menus or outward appearance that it has been installed.

The ldap plugin is a bit more complex, but it also shows you how to create tables, hook into a process. It also has a display/editor page. I can tell you the graphics at the top are fonts based on the font awesome library http://fontawesome.io/

The fog application has and calls out hooks at certain functions and as a plugin programmer you can tie into those hooks to add function to fog.

That is about it from what limited knowledge I have.

Sebastian,

Here’s d1.partitions:

label: gpt label-id: 6561AEE9-3184-4274-B8E2-359A32B76FD5 device: /dev/sda unit: sectors first-lba: 34 last-lba: 104857566 /dev/sda1 : start= 2048, size= 921600, type=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC, uuid=3E77A64A-2E46-40EC-93D0-03CFD0BDDDC9, name="Basic data partition", attrs="RequiredPartition GUID:63" /dev/sda2 : start= 923648, size= 202752, type=C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B, uuid=2CF8BFD9-3B61-4FAD-A4DC-6FC2A1E6E134, name="EFI system partition", attrs="GUID:63" /dev/sda3 : start= 1126400, size= 32768, type=E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE, uuid=1222537C-11F5-4B9F-9FB2-68AE743C5D79, name="Microsoft reserved partition", attrs="GUID:63" /dev/sda4 : start= 1159168, size= 103696384, type=EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7, uuid=0C2EDC77-DB4B-45A1-BF2B-2BE3B844CF47, name="Basic data partition"

Here’s d1.fixed_size_partitions:

:2:3:1

Jim

@tom-elliott Thanks for the reply. This is from our main server. I just built that one and put it in place to test it. That FOG version is 1.4.4, running on the latest CentOS 7. We have a much older one running Ubuntu that I would like to replace.

What I like to do is take a current working plugin, make a copy, and adjust for the needs.

@Tom-Elliott That makes sense. I figured I would at least report it and talk about it.

Thanks. 🙂 You can close this!

@AngryScientist said in MAC Address Questions:

But much to my horror, the FOG client will task restart the host when connected to Wi-Fi, which ends up in a boot-loop and a very concerned end-user.

So to avoid this, just don’t create imaging tasks for laptops unless they are hooked up to the network with a patch cable, and leave all your MACs enabled so you can still use snapins.

I don’t know what your setup looks like or how your operations go where you are, but the way I did laptops in great numbers was I hooked up an 8 port 1Gbps switch on a big table, hooked that up to the building network, setup myself some power strips and some laptop adapters, and I used my pre-made FOG Groups to queue all of the turned-off laptops for unicast imaging. Then I hooked up 8 at a time and powered them on. When one completed imaging & domain joining & snapins, I shut it down afterwards and hooked up another.

@sudburr Right, I don’t touch the repo, this i leave up to you. I try to leave the installations as virgin to the OS as possible.