Environment & Fog Client
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This isn’t a bug, just an observation.
I was unable to get the shutdown feature of the fog client working, and I was able to pinpoint that to our unique environment. Do you recall that in Windows Vista , Microsoft had a feature called “SteadyState” and never continued it into newer versions of Windows. My org uses Faronics Deepfreeze (Google “SteadyState alternatives”) that “rolls back” a whole hard drive after a restart - WIndows, dates, logs, last file use, etc.
Anyway, the feature I had hoped to use was the scheduled shutdown command. Yes, the shutdown would work from the server, but only once - right after resetting the encryption data. I believe the cause of that problem remains deepfreeze.
I had actually wanted to request a feature addition: Add to auto log out the option to restart, that is when I realised without solving the above issue there is little point for the request.
Thanks again for a great piece of software! I will continue to use this FOGProject for some time.
~ P.V.
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Can you run a snapin that executes
shutdown -s -t 30 -c "The system will be shut down in 30 seconds. Please save your work" -
I’ll investigate that, thank you.
~ P.V. -
@george1421
Would scheduling shutdown of the snapin to execute happen on fog or the host?I liked the auto logoff feature because it let the user continue to use the host until the login was idle for x minutes. Windoes 10 changed machine idle sensitivity, and for us it has become difficult to properly give x minutes before being booted.
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@whyzzi said in Environment & Fog Client:
Would scheduling shutdown of the snapin to execute happen on fog or the host?
I’m not sure I understand. You would schedule the snapin to deploy on the FOG server but it would execute the command on the target computer.
Ok we will keep this as a feature request. So just to be clear you want to force a log off after a certain idle time then reboot?
(along those same lines) I know there is an auto log off screen saver. When the screen save is started it logs the user off, then would the normal fog restart work correctly?
