Windows Firewall ports on machines

[rogalskij]

We are a FOG Server school, and we utilize the .13 client. We are on version 1.5.10.41 which we recently updated to. When we attempt to start tasks, the client on the machines don’t seem to execute the tasks regularly. I am thinking it is because we are missing firewall rules on the machine we pull the image from, but am unsure. Are there specific ports we should be adding on the client itself in Windows Firewall? If so, what are they, and are they inbound, outbound, TCP or UDP?

Any assistance would be appreciated. We have the FOG client itself in the Windows Firewall inbound list, but doesn’t seem to have changed anything.

[Tom Elliott]

@rogalskij The fog client only uses outbound 443/80 TCP to communicate to the fog server. All communications are totally reliant on your fog client installation of course too (for example if you installed with https, it will only use 443. If not it should default to attempting to port 80).

Hopefully that helps?

It’s worth noting the FOG Client is a polling system so it checks in with the fog server every so many seconds/minutes, so if you put a task on the server, it’s not immediately pushed to the system in question.

[rogalskij]

@Tom-Elliott So, does that mean I need to add port 80 and 443 to an inbound TCP rule on the machine I am trying to capture from? The client seems to not pick up the task no matter how long I wait. I assume it shouldn’t take more than 60 seconds or so.

Thank you for helping with this.

[Tom Elliott]

@rogalskij It should not need inbound at all. I do not know why it’s not working, but maybe you can provide the machines FOG Client log?

That usually sits in C:\Program Files (x86)\FOG Client\fog.log (or relatively close)

[rogalskij]

@Tom-Elliott

Thank you, while looking at the log, I noticed an oddity and after reinstalling the FOG client, it is now fixed. I appreciate the assistance in helping me track down this problem. The tasks are working correctly when coming from the FOG server itself now. I appreciate it!