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      psyfer9983
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      I would love to see an option to deploy an image then shutdown right on the PXE menu. It would save me from registering the machine and scheduling a deploy image with the shutdown check box checked. Anyway of doing this now via “iPXE New Menu Entry” in FOG?

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      • george1421G
        george1421 Moderator
        last edited by george1421

        The short answer is there is probably a way. You can set a global kernel parameter to tell the FOS engine to shutdown after its operation. But understand every operation that FOS does (FOS == customized version of linux that runs on the target computer) once it is done it will power off the system. That may not be what you want.

        If you go into FOG Configuration -> FOG System Settings -> General Settings -> FOG_KERNEL_ARGS and insert shutdown=1

        The fos engine should shutdown after every operation.

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          psyfer9983
          last edited by psyfer9983

          No, that wouldn’t work. Right now, I’m imaging 100 machines. The way we build our images is we install Windows, get it updated with drivers then we run a script before we upload the image to Fog. The script is just a host rename and domain join, something that Fog client can do but we can’t use it due to the company not wanting us to use it. If a shutdown after imaging can be done as a new menu entry, it would save me from having to register the machines in Fog and starting them from the web UI with the shutdown check box checked. I didn’t know if you could set up the menu entry to schedule a shutdown after the imaging like you can do from the web ui.

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          • george1421G
            george1421 Moderator @psyfer9983
            last edited by

            @psyfer9983 Maybe I didn’t explain my idea well enough.

            If you were to register the machine and deploy an image. If you select the check box that says shutdown after deployment the FOG server adds the kernel parameter shutdown=1 to the instructions FOG tells FOS when booting the target computer.

            So what I propose is to just force that kernel parameter for every imaging event where you PXE boot the target computer. There is no need to register the target computer, there is no need for the fog client. This command happens in the imaging stage only.

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              psyfer9983
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              Does anyone know if or how to set “shutdown=1” via pxe menu?

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              • AvaryanA
                Avaryan
                last edited by Avaryan

                Testing something. I’ll let you know in about 15 minutes if it worked.
                edit: Didn’t work.

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                • Tom ElliottT
                  Tom Elliott
                  last edited by

                  Is this a specific host? Are you wanting this for “every host regardless?”

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                  • george1421G
                    george1421 Moderator @Tom Elliott
                    last edited by

                    @Tom-Elliott He wants after quick imaging to shutdown the computer, either by asking or just do it.

                    I thought the easiest way is with a kernel parameter.

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                    • JunkhackerJ
                      Junkhacker Developer @george1421
                      last edited by Junkhacker

                      @george1421 that sounds the easiest to me too. since it sounds like he’s not registering them and managing them in fog anyway. the only tasks it would affect are captures and deploys.

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                      • Tom ElliottT
                        Tom Elliott @george1421
                        last edited by

                        @george1421 It definitely is the easiest way, but if it’s specific to “quick imaging” goto:
                        FOG Configuration Page->iPXE Menu Configuration->fog.deployimage
                        In Boot Options: add: shutdown=1

                        If you want it for ALL tasks (will not impact debug of course):
                        FOG Configuration Page->FOG Settings->General Settings->FOG_KERNEL_ARGS and add: shutdown=1

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                        Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                        • AvaryanA
                          Avaryan @Tom Elliott
                          last edited by

                          @Tom-Elliott said in New PXE menu entry: Deploy Image & Shutdown:

                          @george1421 It definitely is the easiest way, but if it’s specific to “quick imaging” goto:
                          FOG Configuration Page->iPXE Menu Configuration->fog.deployimage
                          In Boot Options: add: shutdown=1

                          If you want it for ALL tasks (will not impact debug of course):
                          FOG Configuration Page->FOG Settings->General Settings->FOG_KERNEL_ARGS and add: shutdown=1

                          I just tried this and it did not work. Still booted to Windows after imaging.

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                          • Tom ElliottT
                            Tom Elliott @Avaryan
                            last edited by

                            @Avaryan Then something wasn’t done correctly. Did you have exactly shutdown=1? Code to validate is literally:
                            [[ $shutdown -eq 1 ]] && poweroff || reboot -f

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                            • george1421G
                              george1421 Moderator @Avaryan
                              last edited by

                              @Avaryan Its important to not have spaces it should be one command

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                              • george1421G
                                george1421 Moderator @Tom Elliott
                                last edited by

                                @Tom-Elliott Is there a way we can capture if the boot options field is translating into a kernel parameter for the quick image (yes I know its not called quick image any more).

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                                • Tom ElliottT
                                  Tom Elliott @george1421
                                  last edited by

                                  @george1421 If they goto http://fogipaddress/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac=<macofhostbooting>

                                  You should see ‘shutdown=1’ in the list of arguments.

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                                  Web GUI issue? Please check apache error (debian/ubuntu: /var/log/apache2/error.log, centos/fedora/rhel: /var/log/httpd/error_log) and php-fpm log (/var/log/php*-fpm.log)

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                                  • AvaryanA
                                    Avaryan @Tom Elliott
                                    last edited by Avaryan

                                    @Tom-Elliott said in New PXE menu entry: Deploy Image & Shutdown:

                                    @Avaryan Then something wasn’t done correctly. Did you have exactly shutdown=1? Code to validate is literally:
                                    [[ $shutdown -eq 1 ]] && poweroff || reboot -f

                                    This is exactly what I have:
                                    http://puu.sh/vT05Q/eae7a8eadc.png

                                    Did not work. It was an unregistered host. Haven’t tried with a registered one.

                                    FOG 1.4.0 Revision 6069.

                                    edit: Deploying image to a different model now. Device is registered (although that shouldn’t matter?). ETA 15 minutes.

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                                      psyfer9983
                                      last edited by psyfer9983

                                      Right now, the only way I can get the shutdown to work is by adding the “shutdown=1” to the “FOG_KERNEL_ARGS”. It works but its set globally which is not what I’m looking for. I would like everything to function like it should on default settings (unless set when creating a task in the WebUI). I would like to just add a new entry that does the same thing as “Deploy Image” but with a shutdown after deploy. If I could pass the “shutdown=1” to “FOG_KERNEL_ARGS” via new pxe menu entry, this would be great as it would leave everything else as default settings.

                                      FYI, I’m on version 1.3.3

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                                        psyfer9983 @Tom Elliott
                                        last edited by

                                        @Tom-Elliott said in New PXE menu entry: Deploy Image & Shutdown:

                                        http://fogipaddress/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php?mac

                                        This is what is currently in that PHP file, I don’t see the shutdown.

                                        #!ipxe
                                        set fog-ip X.X.X.X
                                        set fog-webroot fog
                                        set boot-url http://${fog-ip}/${fog-webroot}
                                        cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386
                                        iseq ${platform} efi && set key 0x1b || set key 0x1b
                                        iseq ${platform} efi && set keyName ESC || set keyName Escape
                                        prompt --key ${key} --timeout 3000 Booting... (Press ${keyName} to access the menu) && goto menuAccess || chain -ar ${boot-url}/service/ipxe/grub.exe --config-file="rootnoverify (hd0);chainloader +1"
                                        :menuAccess
                                        login
                                        params
                                        param mac0 ${net0/mac}
                                        param arch ${arch}
                                        param platform ${platform}
                                        param username ${username}
                                        param password ${password}
                                        param menuaccess 1
                                        param debug 1
                                        isset ${net1/mac} && param mac1 ${net1/mac} || goto bootme
                                        isset ${net2/mac} && param mac2 ${net2/mac} || goto bootme
                                        :bootme
                                        chain -ar http://X.X.X.X/fog/service/ipxe/boot.php##params
                                        
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                                        • AvaryanA
                                          Avaryan
                                          last edited by

                                          Adding shutdown=1 to the Boot Options for the deploy option does not work. Tested on 3 different devices.

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                                          • george1421G
                                            george1421 Moderator @Avaryan
                                            last edited by

                                            @Avaryan I can understand why (with my limited knowledge of the inner workings of FOG) the way the quick image menu is created. The quick image menu doesn’t call the the kernel load directly but it turns around and calls boot.php again which then creates a new menu for image selection. Its possible that the kernel parameter is getting lost on this second boot.php call.

                                            or the field value for shutdown=1 is wrong and should be written as param shutdown 1 instead to be in line with what iPXE is expecting.

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