Quick Registration Hostname Variability?

[george1421]

@neilasiii With quick registration I’d have to look into the code to see if you can hack your way to what you want. In principal it should be possible.

I have a tutorial for something similar for the full registration where the hostname is calculated based on the deployment site, if its a portable or desktop and the serial number of the device. https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/14278/creating-custom-hostname-default-for-fog-man-reg

In this post I call for the product name differently based on the manufacturer. https://forums.fogproject.org/post/82600 This is done via a call to dmidecode to get the system-manufacturer name with dmidecode -s system-manufacturer

So all of the bits are available you just need to configure them in the right order.

[DBCountMan]

@george1421 These are scripts that run during registration right?

[george1421]

@brakcounty For the custom host name yes. In the FOS Linux environment the fog.man.reg script is for registering the client computer with the FOG server. The tutorial I linked is how to inject a tweaked fog.man.reg script into a booting FOS Linux image.

[DBCountMan]

@george1421 ok so I have created two files fog.man.reg and fog.customhostname containing their respective code as per your tutorial. I see this step “we need to copy the fixed fog.man.reg and (fog.auto.reg) file(s)”. Do I need to worry about the fog.auto.reg file or is the fog.man.reg file enough?

[george1421]

@brakcounty said in Quick Registration Hostname Variability?:

Do I need to worry about the fog.auto.reg file or is the fog.man.reg file enough?

the fog.auto.reg is for the quick registration function. The fog.man.reg is for the full/complete registration.

[DBCountMan]

@george1421
So I got it working. The only thing I’d like to omit from the script is the site code function. I only need the serial number to be read from bios and set as hostname. Which parts of the script can I comment out to skip that step?

[george1421]

@brakcounty said in Quick Registration Hostname Variability?:

So I got it working. The only thing I’d like to omit from the script is the site code function.

In the custom host name script at the very bottom.

# default host name is returned to the fog.man.reg script
host_default_name="$zsitecode$zchtype$zserialno";

That is where I glue together all of the variables that I collected above. If you just want the serial number then the last line should look like this

# default host name is returned to the fog.man.reg script
host_default_name="$zserialno";

Then the default host name will just be the serial number of the device.

[DBCountMan]

@george1421 BOOM! That worked! Thanks!

[george1421]

@brakcounty said in Quick Registration Hostname Variability?:

BOOM! That worked! Thanks!

I’m detecting a hint of doubt in that statement…

Well done on the hack to get what you needed.

[DBCountMan]

@george1421 There wasn’t any doubt on my end…but I can imagine you read that and said to yourself “of course it did…”.