Host Registration
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Thanks for reply
Basically how long it takes to register the host? I even don’t see any messages that fog was unable to register the host.
IS IT A MUST to install fog client on host which I want to register or this step is optional?
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It should be only moments to register the host with FOG. However, it is not required to install the FOG client on a machine. If you log into the web portion of FOG, all that the FOG client does is control everything under the ‘FOG Configuration’ tab. However, I did find this post which might help, [url]http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/189072-fog-wont-register-host[/url]
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I saw few similar posts, will check this on the server.
LAST UPDATE: I did BIOS update on dell optiplex gx520 with XP, manually registered host and created upload task.
After host reboot AT LAST saw some progress, it was an error: “failed to mount nfs volume, PC will reboot in 1 minute”
However it is still not working but now I am able to see more details
thanks for you patience, it’s more interesting now just can’t wait to make it up and running
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I did find this thread, [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-server-fatal-error-failed-to-mount-nfs-volume.115/[/url] I also found a KB article on the Wiki that might help a bit as well, [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Image_Upload:_Error_Checking_Mount[/url]
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[quote=“Kevin, post: 10468, member: 3”]I did find this thread, [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/fog-server-fatal-error-failed-to-mount-nfs-volume.115/[/url] I also found a KB article on the Wiki that might help a bit as well, [url]http://fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Image_Upload:_Error_Checking_Mount[/url][/quote]
Great, thanks. I created upload task yesterday and got this error, now deleted the image template and existing host from web interface. Switched on the same host to run quick host registration to see how bios update affected registration methods, but host tried to upload the image to the server again - here is now active tasks anymore but it still trying to upload the image, while another machines with old bios still attempting to register the host. Will update bios on another machine and will test quick/full registration methods.
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FOG server was rebuilt and now quck/full registration methods are working fine.
Once fog server was built IP was changed few times, it seems like it was main problem.
Thanks.
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That would very well cause a problem
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[quote=“Kevin, post: 10591, member: 3”]That would very well cause a problem
glad to hear that you got it working for you now.[/quote]Kevin,
I just built image and saved on the server, now I’m restoring another machine from this image.
I was wondering how I can restore 10 or more machines per time, I created a group for this and successfully deployed an image to machines - great.
Thanks
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You can try to multicast to the machines. This will push the image 1 time to all 10 machines at the same time, saving bandwidth. But you are correct, you need to have every machine registered in FOG prior to try and multicast. So, for instance, I would take all of those machines and put them in a group, which for example we’ll call Lab A. Once a group has been created, you can then go to the Group management tab, select Lab A and set the memberships, image ID’s etc to the specific group. Once this is done, you go to Task Management > List All Groups and select Multicast from Lab A. From there, imaging would be like normal once all the machines pxe boot.
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I like this multicast option if it will save bandwidth - good one.
I’m trying to sysprep xp machine because need to have different pc names and ssid after restore.
But when running ‘fogprep.exe’ I receive 3 different errors and now I see that:
[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333][B][CENTER]FOG Prep[/CENTER][/B][/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333]Download FOG Prep which must be run on computers running Windows 7 immediately prior to image upload. [/COLOR][/FONT]
[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333] [/COLOR][/FONT]
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FOGprep should only be used on Windows 7 machines. For XP, you need to extract sysprep from deploy.cab. This file can be downloaded from here: [url]https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11282[/url]. (Going from memory at this point) But you then run the setupmgr and it’s literally a step by step process to setup a generic image for your machines. However, once you are done, make sure you back up the folder these files sit in. The folder with the sysprep info in it is automatically deleted once the computer is re-imaged. If you need more help, I can try and get a write up done tonight or tomorrow on how to get an XP system sysprepped.
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I have read this article: [url]http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302577[/url] remember now that I got some issues with license key in the past, thanks Kevin for your help, anyway I’ll test this and will come back to you with feedback.