@Sebastian-Roth Unfortunately, secure erase will most often be blocked by the BIOS (frozen state). See more details here: https://github.com/FOGProject/fos/issues/40

@Sebastian-Roth Thanks Sebastian, that’s what I was wondering, I won’t bother with NAT in VirtualBox then. Hopefully I will have time tomorrow to try and get this set up and tested. Yes, I do have two physical network interfaces. The machine is a Lenovo M92 with one network port. I’m using that for the imaging network and attached a USB to ethernet adapter for the business network. They are both in bridged mode.

@bwenig Did you setup the DHCP yourself or is this the DHCP FOG put up for you when you ran the FOG installer?

George, these are great ideas and questions. This is the beauty of open source. Collaboration. I’ve revised my thoughts now. Here they are. Generate a GUID on the FOG system during installation. This will be unique, but not tie to any particular organization. On the fog web login screen, send a request with the GUID, FOG Version, and OS Version details to an API. Request should be non-blocking. If it fails or times out, it should not impact the login process. API records GUID, FOG Version, OS Version, and a datetime stamp. These things allow: Not double-counting any system due to the GUID. The ability to know how many are running in the last month/week whatever. How many of each FOG Version is out there currently running How many of each OS is out there running FOG. Presumably see how long a version lives on average, among other things. This protects privacy as the GUID does not tie to any organization, and simply allows us to not double-count entries. Thoughts?

@p4cm4n You can do that, there is a tutorial (for uefi) to create a boot drive the easy way. This will load iPXE from a usb stick and then boot into FOG. https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/6350/usb-boot-uefi-client-into-fog-menu-easy-way For those that can’t use iPXE I have FOS Linux on a usb stick too. You lose about 30% of the functionality of FOG but you can image no problem with it. https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7727/building-usb-booting-fos-image

You should certainly be able to search in the GUI by MAC address, however sometimes even then the host won’t display due to other issues. Using SQL, you can always find items. Please have a read through the topic Sebastion mentioned. You might also look at this Wiki article: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshoot_MySQL#Database_Maintenance_Commands

@3mu Thanks for the update. I will take a look at this when I have more time.

There is an antivirus McAfee. I have en impression that the app blocks on ping or somewhere there, when I try to install it with https selected. It doesn’t install at all. When I don’t select https option I can install it but in the log I see it blocked on downloading the certificate. From the log I took the address to the certificate and I was able to download it in a browser

I’ve seen this request but not quite sure how to move forward. Please understand, Access controls, with this iteration of FOG Server, are coded after the fact. What do I mean by this? FOG didn’t really have any real security controls in place. You, indeed, needed to be logged in to do actions of course, but there weren’t any utilities in place for “modifying” access. For a period of time, there was a thing called “mobile” user which basically just allowed a user to use a mobile interface. This interface was coded along side the FOG system, and was a cumbersome tool to maintain. So when we moved to a responsive design, I removed that “mobile” gui as the new GUI is also mobile accessible. The Access control plugin is a huge leap toward getting a tool available to limit access based on rules/roles etc…, but it’s not a perfect system as it relies on the User existing in the database first. I’m sure we could work to add a utility to enable a “default” role association but right now it doesn’t exist.

I am totally geeking out hearing this! The film technology they used is also quite fascinating.

@Sebastian-Roth Here is the requested output: root@ThinkPad-T430s:/var/lib/dhcp# ls -alR /media/fog/External/ ; mount /media/fog/External/: total 108 d--------- 24 fogproject fog 4096 Jul 23 18:21 . drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 4096 Aug 10 08:01 .. d--------- 8 fogproject fog 4096 Aug 6 10:01 dev drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jun 15 14:00 FOGServer-StudentBackup6-15-2020 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 15 14:28 L13_V1 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 9 09:45 L380_V5 drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject root 4096 Apr 29 09:36 L380Yoga_V2 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Jul 9 10:00 L390_Student_V3 drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject root 16384 Nov 20 2019 lost+found -rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject fog 0 Aug 6 09:58 .mntcheck drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject root 4096 Jun 12 15:01 postdownloadscripts drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject root 4096 Dec 11 2019 T410Public drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject root 4096 Dec 11 2019 T420Public drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject root 4096 Jan 10 2020 T430sPublic drwxrwxrwx 5 fogproject fog 4096 Feb 14 09:05 .Trash-1000 drwxrwxrwx 2 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10:17 . d--------- 8 fogproject fog 4096 Aug 6 10:01 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1048576 Aug 6 10:02 d1.mbr -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 146743 Aug 6 10:02 d1p1.img -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13291142 Aug 6 10:02 d1p2.img -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7398263 Aug 6 10:02 d1p3.img -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17361994988 Aug 6 10:16 d1p4.img -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 636090572 Aug 6 10:17 d1p5.img -rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 1078 Aug 6 10:02 d1.partitions /media/fog/External/dev/a41f7254af44: total 11182592 drwxrwxrwx 2 fogproject root 4096 Jan 28 2020 . d--------- 8 fogproject fog 4096 Aug 6 10:01 .. -rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 1048576 Jan 28 2020 d1.mbr -rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 401658291 Jan 28 2020 d1p1.img -rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 13563322 Jan 28 2020 d1p2.img -rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 7204158 Jan 28 2020 d1p3.img -rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 11027475040 Jan 28 2020 d1p4.img -rwxrwxrwx 1 fogproject root 861 Jan 28 2020 d1.partitions /media/fog/External/dev/postinitscripts: total 12 drwxrwxrwx 2 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tracefs on /sys/kernel/tracing type tracefs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) sunrpc on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime) nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,relatime) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-3-34-1804_24.snap on /snap/gnome-3-34-1804/24 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/core18_1705.snap on /snap/core18/1705 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gtk-common-themes_1506.snap on /snap/gtk-common-themes/1506 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/snap-store_433.snap on /snap/snap-store/433 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/snapd_7264.snap on /snap/snapd/7264 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro) tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=372344k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000) gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000) /dev/fuse on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000) /dev/sdb2 on /media/fog/External type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uhelper=udisks2) /dev/fuse on /root/.cache/doc type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0) gvfsd-fuse on /root/.cache/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0) Here are photos of the error, .fogsettings and Default Storage node user:

@3mu I have a one off kernel that has the updated realtek drivers in it. Lets give this one a shot. Download this kernel and save it as bzImageRT (watch the case) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wZwwOwbEr0nR3mnPLKg7AsulwJaGhO0A/view?usp=sharing Move that file to the fog server in `/var/www/html/fog/service/ipxe directory. Manually register this target host In the host definition there is a field Kernel. In that field enter bzImageRT Save the host definition Setup a capture/deploy task PXE boot the target computer and see if it picks up an IP address with this kernel.

@george1421 Thanks, I really appreciate your help!

@zyzhang That is good news. It took us a while to get success and joy but now it sounds like its working as it should.

That did it jest as described. Thank you so much!!!

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/9430/synology-nas-as-fog-storage-node Essentially that will do what you’re looking for. You do not install the fog software directly. You just need to configure the node to have FTP and NFS. You will miss a few little details such as disk size and what not.

hello sebastian, thank you for your support! i did run the maintenance commands as user “root”, but it did not help. Welcome to the MariaDB monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MariaDB connection id is 33 Server version: 10.3.22-MariaDB-0+deb10u1 Debian 10 Copyright (c) 2000, 2018, Oracle, MariaDB Corporation Ab and others. Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement. MariaDB [fog]> DELETE FROM `hosts` WHERE `hostID` = '0'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.000 sec) MariaDB [fog]> DELETE FROM `hostMAC` WHERE hmID = '0' OR `hmHostID` = '0'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.001 sec) MariaDB [fog]> DELETE FROM `groupMembers` WHERE `gmID` = '0' OR `gmHostID` = '0' OR `gmGroupID` = '0'; Query OK, 2 rows affected (0.017 sec) MariaDB [fog]> DELETE FROM `snapinGroupAssoc` WHERE `sgaID` = '0' OR `sgaSnapinID` = '0' OR `sgaStorageGroupID` = '0'; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.000 sec) MariaDB [fog]> DELETE from `snapinAssoc` WHERE `saID` = '0' OR `saHostID` = '0' OR `saSnapinID` = '0'; Query OK, 15 rows affected (0.024 sec) MariaDB [fog]> DELETE FROM `hosts` WHERE `hostID` NOT IN (SELECT `hmHostID` FROM `hostMAC` WHERE `hmPrimary` = '1'); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.026 sec) MariaDB [fog]> DELETE FROM `hosts` WHERE `hostID` NOT IN (SELECT `hmHostID` FROM `hostMAC`); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.001 sec) MariaDB [fog]> DELETE FROM `hostMAC` WHERE `hmhostID` NOT IN (SELECT `hostID` FROM `hosts`); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.001 sec) MariaDB [fog]> DELETE FROM `snapinAssoc` WHERE `saHostID` NOT IN (SELECT `hostID` FROM `hosts`); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.001 sec) MariaDB [fog]> DELETE FROM `groupMembers` WHERE `gmHostID` NOT IN (SELECT `hostID` FROM `hosts`) -> ; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.001 sec) MariaDB [fog]> DELETE FROM `tasks` WHERE `taskStateID` IN ("1","2","3"); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.000 sec) MariaDB [fog]> DELETE FROM `snapinTasks` WHERE `stState` in ("1","2","3"); Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.016 sec) MariaDB [fog]> TRUNCATE TABLE multicastSessions; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.001 sec) MariaDB [fog]> TRUNCATE TABLE multicastSessionsAssoc; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.001 sec) MariaDB [fog]> DELETE FROM tasks WHERE taskTypeId=8; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.000 sec) MariaDB [fog]> TRUNCATE TABLE history; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.023 sec) MariaDB [fog]> TRUNCATE TABLE userTracking; Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.001 sec) MariaDB [fog]> quit

@george1421 Very nice, I will have to read into this. I will just need to comment out the AD domain joining and keep the host name change part only.