HP ZBOOK15U G3 - Host Registration Problem

[phishphan]

@george1421

ubuntu 13.10 64-bit, Intel I-5, 7.3 gigs of RAM in a VM.

[phishphan]

@Tom-Elliott

So I haven’t had any luck installing curl. If I upgrade to a different Ubuntu on a fresh VM is there an easy way to import all my custom configs to the new version of FOG? As mentioned, I’m a Linux noob and it took me a lot of time and tinkering to get FOG up and running.

[george1421]

@phishphan There is a way to migrate your data.

What I would suggest that you do install Ubuntu 14.04LTS. FOG will install without issue on this platform. Then we can work on migrating your data. At this time the trunk build will be 1.3.0-rc2 (which is a good thing). There is no reason to install 1.2.0 stable and then upgrade, install the 1.3.0-rc2 directly.

[phishphan]

@george1421 Okay, I’ve got 1.3.0-rc2 installed on 14.04 and it’s up and running. I’ve exported my hosts from the previous version. Please advise on what other configuration files I need to bring over to get everything back in order.

[george1421]

@phishphan The other thing you will need to export and import are any image defintions and to move any captured images from your old FOG server to your new FOG server. You will need to do the same if you have snapins too.

As for your environment, don’t forget to update your dhcp server (option 66) to point to your new FOG server.

[phishphan]

@george1421 On the Hosts page I see the option to export but in Images and Groups I don’t see any option to export. How would I go about getting that data?

[Wayne Workman]

@phishphan 1.2.0 can’t export those other things, but you can do a total configuration save if you really needed to, and import that to the new server. Lots of stuff will need changed, like IP addresses, passwords, and maybe paths - after import is complete.

You can also individually export tables, but if you do this, you won’t get the schema information that fog needs to update the layout and you’d have to do this manually and it might be quite involved. It’d be easier to take a total configuration export and then import that and make the necessary IP changes for it to work on the new and different server.

How many images do you have? Would it be that difficult to just manually make the definitions?

@Tom-Elliott since this keeps coming up, maybe we can produce a script for 1.2.0 and perhaps .32 that would export images and groups in the appropriate format accepted by fog 1.3.0 ?

[phishphan]

I’ve got the hosts imported. I have quite a few unique images but with 1.3 up and running and it working with my HP Zbooks I’m more than happy to do a little legwork.

Last question - is the “postdownloadscripts” folder image dependent? I ask because once I have my captured image I move it to another drive for archival. I just want to make sure when I need to pull it up again I have all the components.

[george1421]

@phishphan The post download scripts are not image dependent. This directory is the location to install custom bash scripts that can be called by the FOG server during image deployment. Everything for the image is stored in the image directory.

[Wayne Workman]

@phishphan said in HP ZBOOK15U G3 - Host Registration Problem:

I ask because once I have my captured image I move it to another drive for archival.

You should automate that with a cron task and scp or rsync.