I changed the code to PHP and now it works, so I think it was something security related from the browser.

@typotony That’s Great to hear!
Glad you got it working and that it was as easy as intended.

@judzk sorry I just saw this and yes I also see the error.

Glad its working for you now.

I also didn’t use the powershell module.

@r-pawlowski I would be happy to help in anyway I can. Personally, I deploy a bootmanager (grub2win) and the ipxe.efi file to each machines efi partition. Then I can just change the boot managers default to boot straight to fog. It takes a bit of time to get setup, but I found it to be the most reliable as I then didn’t have to worry as much about the bios settings. Theoretically you can use bcdedit commands to change the boot order to boot to network, but that also differs on different hardware.

I digress though, the easy bit for queueing an image to deploy

Follow the setup instructions for the fog API (involves installing the module from powershell gallery and then inputting your API keys and fog server address) Then make sure the host you’re imaging is assigned the correct image, this can be changed in the API if you need that, but for this quick example, we’ll pretend it’s set correct. For an example, we’ll say the hostname of a computer in fog is ‘test-computer’, so this will find the host in fog, then queue an image to deploy on it right now $hostID = (Get-FogHost -hostname 'Test-Computer').id #create a quick json string, this can also be done in a powershell object and converted, but this is just a quick example. #tasktypeID of 1 is a deploy task, if no runtime/schedule time is specified, it defaults to instant deploy # shutdown = 0 is not scheduling with shutdown # I believe other2 = 0 means not a debug # other4 = 1 means to enable wol # isactive =1 means the task is active $jsonData = "{`"taskTypeID`": 1,`"shutdown`":`"0`",`"other2`":`"0`",`"other4`":`"1`",`"isActive`":`"1`" }"; # make the API call to create the new task for your host New-FogObject -type objecttasktype -coreTaskObject host -jsonData $jsonData -IDofObject $hostId;

Once you have this all setup in a powershell module or script internally, you can get things automated pretty smoothly. It’s meant to be modular so it can be applied to any infrastructure or workflow and built upon.

If you need more help let me know and I’ll see what I can do.

@abulhol Should be back up and running.

Thanks for letting us know.

@Chris-Whiteley I finally had some time to work on the module and created a Start-FogSnapin function that can deploy a single snapin task.

See also https://fogapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/commands/Start-FogSnapin/

@tom-elliott said in API Return object for scheduledtask is malformed (has a tiny typo):

@tom-elliott Added a little tiny bit.

Thank you,

That tiny bit that allowed non-unique names for tasks and scheduled tasks did the trick!

i think i’ve found the solution .

i just made a new ipxemenu entry with my winpe and force via API , the default parameter to 1 to this menu entry i can find in coreobjects pxemenuoptions.

i’ll keep you informed

Thank you!

@Tom-Elliott Yes it is safe to solve now, sorry for the delay. Thanks again!

@jape You can use the api (See the powershell api module links in my signature). You can use it to create the scheduled task. i.e. (provided you got the module all setup prior) the following would create a scheduled deploy task for host with id ‘1234’
at 8 pm tonight. The following is all powershell that can be run from your admin workstation.

#define the schedule time in the linux format $startAtTime = (get-date 8pm) $EpochDiff = New-TimeSpan "01 January 1970 00:00:00" $($startAtTime) $scheduleTime = [INT] $EpochDiff.TotalSeconds - [timezone]::CurrentTimeZone.GetUtcOffset($(get-date)).totalseconds #define the schedule time in human readable format $runTime = get-date $StartAtTime -Format "yyyy-M-d HH:MM" $jsonData = @" { "name":"Deploy Task", "type":"S", "taskTypeID":"1", "runTime":"$runTime", "scheduleTime":"$scheduleTime", "isGroupTask":"0", "hostID":"1234", "shutdown":"0", "other2":"0", "other4":"1", "isActive":"1" } "@ #create the scheduled deploy task with the defined json New-FogObject -type object -coreObject scheduledtask -jsonData $jsonData