Use serial number as hostname in Fog
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@xinzo well done! Now just make sure you backup everything since you hacked the fog environment. That way when/if you upgrade you don’t lose your hacks. But really nice. I’m really more than willing to help someone help themselves success with FOG. This way you can get exactly what works for your situation.
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Thanks
For people who want to do this. Don’t forget to set the QUICKREG SYS NAME in the FOG SETTINGS toSYSSERIAL.
@george1421 Can I upload my file somewere for the people who want to implement the feature ? -
@xinzo If you want to post them here, I’ll rewrite the instructions as a tutorial and then provide a link to this thread. You might need to change the extension of the files to .txt so they can be uploaded. I can see other wanting this feature too. I know I personally missed it since the FOG v0.30 days.
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@george1421
Here are my files, I’ve upload all the content of my postinitscripts folder:
fog.postinit.txt
fog.patch.customhostname.txt
fog.man.reg.fix.txt
fog.customhostname.txt
fog.auto.reg.txt@george1421 said in Use serial number as hostname in Fog:
I can see other wanting this feature too. I know I personally missed it since the FOG v0.30 days.
Without you, impossible to implement this feature. Thanks a lot
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@george1421 did you ever get round to writing a guide for this? It’s a shame this can’t be included in the main branch for quick registration, because we just name machines off the system serial number here and you have to pay extra now for a bloomin barcode with Dell!
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@AlexisPHC You can set this by putting the name field of quick registration as {SYSSERIAL}
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@Tom-Elliott said in Use serial number as hostname in Fog:
{SYSSERIAL}
Ah, lovely, thanks Tom, I’ll give that a go - I tried SYSSERIAL on it’s own and it didn’t work but didn’t realise it needed the curly brackets!
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@AlexisPHC said in Use serial number as hostname in Fog:
did you ever get round to writing a guide for this?
Yes. I think the previous comment to your post referenced the files.
the file
fog.customhostnameuses a linux commanddmidecodeto extract the serial number from the smbios. And the rest of the ‘hack’ will pump that name into the full registration files. When I wrote that script I worked for a company that had a composite host name with the site code, a hardware type and then the dell asset tag appended onto the end. That is what this tutorial shows.Now Tom mentioned that
{SYSSERIAL}in the quick registration field works too. I wasn’t aware of that feature, it must be new. I know FOG version 0.30 had that feature but it was removed when FOG 1.x was released. If its back, that’s great!! that makes my script(s) unnecessary. -
@george1421 I’ll give that guide a whirl, {SYSSERIAL} doesn’t seem to work - this is what happened when I tried it!
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@AlexisPHC I’m apologizing, yes SYSSERIAL is existing (in working-1.6).
If you’re willing (and slightly daring) you could update to the working-1.6 branch (give us another tester of it) and SYSSERIAL is re-introduced overthere.
I am workign with 2 different systems and often look in the primary place I’m working to find information. I can assure you the SYSSERIAL lookup/adjustment is in the working-1.6 branch (and that just happened to be where I was when I looked this up so again my apologies)
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@Tom-Elliott aha, that explains it, I installed the stable branch and I’m on 1.5.10. Guess I need to upgrade then to working-1.6!
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@Tom-Elliott can confirm, this does now appear to work in 1.6 - huzzah! @george1421 looks like your hard work has paid off and it will eventually be in the stable branch!
