Making Fog as easy as possible in daily use

[lunde326]

@Wayne-Workman great stuff, and thanks for the fast replies. Will try this out

[Tom Elliott]

@lunde326 One caveat. The deploy image/quick image method will work, but it requires a User login.

If you’re running trunk versions of fog, however, you can edit the deploy image menu item and supply that information in place of the login commands. This would be what I would recommend. I think you would also need to add the qihost.

So, theoretically, your Deploy Image menu parameters would go from:

login
params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username ${username}
param password ${password}
param qihost 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme

To:

params
param mac0 ${net0/mac}
param arch ${arch}
param username fog
param password password
param qihost 1
isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme

Notice the first element shows ${username} and ${password}. This is actually correct. In the second I replaced those fields with actual text values. (Of course change the fog portion to whatever user you want to use, and the respective password).

Also notice the login line seen in the first one is no longer present. This is so you aren’t presented with the login information.

[lunde326]

@Tom-Elliott @Wayne-Workman Thanks for the help so far.
I’ve successfully made my “golden” image. and deployed it to the 4 available loan PC’s. everything around that works great.
but after the deployment the disk size is only around 30 GB ( image size +2 GB). and i have to go into disk management and grow the disk with the remaining 870 GB.
Any tips?

[Tom Elliott]

@lunde326 is the image type set to resizable?

[lunde326]

@Tom-Elliott Yeah, single disk resizable.

[Tom Elliott]

Are you running a current version of fog? Meaning trunk or the rc ?

[lunde326]

@Tom-Elliott

[Tom Elliott]

@lunde326 when and what version did you use to capture the image?

[lunde326]

@Tom-Elliott The server has been off internet access since it was configured running on an isolated network. so i was using the version in my image above.
did the capture earlier today. same with the deployments.

[Wayne Workman]

@lunde326 fog 1.3.0 RC1 is out, I’d really recommend you connect the server to the net in order to update, then go back to the isolated network.

[lunde326]

@Wayne-Workman Will do. thanks

[lunde326]

@Wayne-Workman Hmm, still does it in the latest version (leaves computer with a disk size 2GB larger than the image, and you have to grow the remaining X GB to make it full capacity again). image captured and deployed on the 1.3.0 RC1. The captured machine was that way after capture, and the machines that had been deployed to also.