Host not found with windows service fog

Almeida · Jan 15, 2015, 8:10 AM

Hello,

My host (windows 7) is not found with the windows fog service.

But I can add host with PXE.

I disable the firewall but it doesn’t work.

Thanks.

ch3i · Jan 15, 2015, 9:56 AM

Hi,

I think the fog service installed on host can’t register a host in the fog server. You need to register it before in pxe (quick or full)

Regards,
Ch3i.

Almeida · Jan 15, 2015, 11:17 AM

Hi,

I thought that windows service fog was a solution to register hosts and the pxe was another solution to register hosts.

Thanks.

Tom Elliott · Jan 15, 2015, 11:37 AM

[quote=“Almeida, post: 40779, member: 27482”]Hi,

I thought that windows service fog was a solution to register hosts and the pxe was another solution to register hosts.

Thanks.[/quote]

0.29 allowed the FOG Client to register hosts to the system, but this lead to false assumptions on the client (back then) that it could be supported for imaging as well as everything else. It was removed shortly after and the register.php (service function) only added MAC Addresses to the host. We’re re-adding this element though but in a newer fashion. Similar to how MACs get registered to the client under a pending approval model, the Hosts, if not already existing on the system, will add the host with the name and relevant mac address of the system. It also flags this new client as pending which would need administration approval to allow usage. This should allow the elements requested AND leave it adaptable so the admins know the system will work with fog (which it most likely will).

Almeida · Jan 15, 2015, 12:33 PM

So we can add hosts only with PXE ?

Tom Elliott · Jan 15, 2015, 12:34 PM

Or manually enter it in the GUI.

Almeida · Jan 15, 2015, 12:47 PM

Ok.

Is it possible to change the name of hosts after the task of deployment and thereafter to join a domain?

Thanks.

Tom Elliott · Jan 15, 2015, 12:49 PM

What do you mean?

ch3i · Jan 15, 2015, 1:06 PM

[quote=“Almeida, post: 40786, member: 27482”]Ok.

Is it possible to change the name of hosts after the task of deployment and thereafter to join a domain?

Thanks.[/quote]

With the fog client, if you have an host already deploy and you change the hostname and enable active directory (in the configuration of the host) after imaging, the host will reboot automatically to change it hostname and join the domain in the specific organization unit.