Fog Client error (not contacting fog server)
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 Hello, I installed FOG at Office a few weeks ago to respond to a mass PC deployement quickly. 
 Today, we will use FOG “officially” at the office, so we want to deploy the fog client on users pc’s by gpo or a kixtart on logon. (For that here it’s not a problem)So i installed fog client on some local PC’s in my domain to see the “auto-register” feature working, but the PC’s are not contacting Fog server to register that ones. So, my FOG server is installed on a virtual-box vm with the hostname “fogserver”. So i found a trouble at the host registration step. I tryed lot of different settings in fog, but it’s always the same, Hre you can see the fog.log of a client PC. [CODE] 
 24/09/2012 14:15 Service Stop requested
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::AutoLogOut Shutdown complete
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::ClientUpdater Shutdown complete
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::DirCleaner Shutdown complete
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::DisplayManager Shutdown complete
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::GreenFog Shutdown complete
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::GUIWatcher Stopping…
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::HostnameChanger Shutdown complete
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::HostRegister Shutdown complete
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::MODDebug Shutdown complete
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::PrinterManager Shuting down
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::SnapinClient Shutdown complete
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::TaskReboot Stopping…
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::UserCleanup Shutdown complete
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::UserTracker Shutdown complete
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG Service Engine Version: 3
 24/09/2012 14:15 Starting all sub processes
 24/09/2012 14:15 14 modules loaded
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.AutoLogOut
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::AutoLogOut Starting process…
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.SnapinClient
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::ClientUpdater Starting client update process…
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::ClientUpdater Sleeping for 270 seconds.
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.DirCleaner
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.DisplayManager
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::DirCleaner Sleeping for 55 seconds.
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::DisplayManager Starting display manager process…
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.GreenFog
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::GreenFog Sleeping for 50 seconds.
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.GUIWatcher
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::GUIWatcher Starting GUI Watcher…
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.HostNameChanger
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.HostRegister
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::HostnameChanger Starting hostname change process…
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::HostnameChanger Yielding to other subservices for 1 seconds.
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::HostRegister Starting host registration process…
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.MODDebug
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::MODDebug Start Called
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.PrinterManager
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::PrinterManager Starting interprocess communication process…
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.SnapinClient
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::PrinterManager interprocess comm startup: OK
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.TaskReboot
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::SnapinClient Starting snapin client process…
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::TaskReboot Taskreboot in lazy mode.
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::TaskReboot Starting Task Reboot…
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.UserCleanup
 24/09/2012 14:15 * Starting FOG.UserTracker
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::UserCleanup Sleeping for 19 seconds.
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::UserTracker Starting user tracking process…
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::PrinterManager Attempting to connect to fog server…
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::SnapinClient Sleeping for 440 seconds.
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::HostRegister Attempting to connect to fog server…
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::AutoLogOut Module is disabled globally on the FOG Server.
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::PrinterManager Module is disabled globally on the FOG Server, exiting.
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::DisplayManager Module is disabled globally on the FOG Server.
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::HostRegister Unknown error, module will exit.
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::UserTracker Attempting to connect to fog server…
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::UserTracker Module is disabled globally on the FOG Server, exiting.
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::HostnameChanger Attempting to connect to fog server…
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::HostnameChanger General Error Returned:
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::HostnameChanger #!er: Host not found!
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::HostnameChanger Host name was not found in the database.
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::UserCleanup Starting user cleanup process…
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::UserCleanup Attempting to connect to fog server…
 24/09/2012 14:15 FOG::UserCleanup Module is disabled globally on the FOG Server, exiting.
 24/09/2012 14:16 FOG::GreenFog Starting green fog…
 24/09/2012 14:16 FOG::GreenFog Attempting to connect to fog server…
 24/09/2012 14:16 FOG::GreenFog Module is disabled globally on the FOG Server, exiting.
 24/09/2012 14:16 FOG::DirCleaner Starting directory cleaning process…
 24/09/2012 14:16 FOG::DirCleaner Attempting to connect to fog server…
 24/09/2012 14:16 FOG::DirCleaner Module is disabled globally on the FOG Server.
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug Reading config settings…
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug Reading of config settings passed.
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug Starting Core processing…
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug Operating System ID: 5
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug Operating System Minor: 1
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug MAC ID 0 00:21:70:A4:64:97
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug MAC ID 1 00:50:56:C0:00:01
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug MAC ID 2 00:50:56:C0:00:08
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug MAC POST String: 00:21:70:A4:64:97|00:50:56:C0:00:01|00:50:56:C0:00:08
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug A user is currently logged in
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug Username: ******\NFRA-702074
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug Hostname: P33FEFR
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug Attempting to open connect to: http://fogserver/fog/service/debug.php
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug Server responded with: Hello FOG Client
 24/09/2012 14:17 FOG::MODDebug Module has finished work and will now exit.
 24/09/2012 14:19 FOG::ClientUpdater Attempting to connect to fog server…
 24/09/2012 14:19 FOG::ClientUpdater Module is disabled globally on the FOG Server, exiting.
 24/09/2012 14:22 FOG::SnapinClient Attempting to connect to fog server…
 24/09/2012 14:22 FOG::SnapinClient Module is disabled globally on the FOG Server, exiting.
 [/CODE]I hope you can help us using the client to register all our users, because we have to deploy VLC before the end of month :s. Otherwise, congrats for the deployement tool! Best Regards, 
 Fred
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 Hi Fred, the host auto-register feature was discontinued in version .29(I think) You will want to manually register them or import the hostnames/MAC addresses from a file. 
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 [quote=“BigDawg986, post: 8854, member: 75”]Hi Fred, the host auto-register feature was discontinued in version .29(I think) You will want to manually register them or import the hostnames/MAC addresses from a file.[/quote] Hmmm strange, normally the good features continue and being developped. Well i will try to do the job extracting some .csv’s for our multiple dhcp servers  Thanks anyway. Also new replys are welcome to recommend a tool or something. Thanks, 
 Fred
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 I am not sure why it was discontinued but the developers are shooting to bring it back in the next release. You can run a report in SCCM to get hostnames and MACS or the free SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also generate .csv’s for you if your shop does not use SCCM. 
