Problem with some hostname and AD integration

[tmerrick]

I just upgraded to 4491 and now the hostnamechanger fails on my clients also with an Invalid Host Certificate. I am running on Red Hat 6.6 and it did work before the upgrade. I have taken one client and uninstalled/reinstalled the new client and it still does not work. I am also seeing problems on previously installed new clients when the hostnamechanger runs on them.

[Matthieu Jacquart]

I feel less alone… ^^
I agree with that, I updated svn each day and trouble began last thursday I think, don’t remember precise svn version at this date.

[tmerrick]

I have some more information. I deleted the fog certificate and then did a repair on fog and got the message “Failed to download CA certificate”. So it still looks like a problem with the certificate on the server.

Later I uninstalled the fog client, rebooted, and successfully reinstalled it. Still getting the same errors though.

[tmerrick]

Here is the directory of the fog certificate area on the server:

-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache  1287 Aug 25 07:51 ca.cert.der
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache  1797 Aug 25 07:51 ca.cert.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 35147 Aug 25 07:51 gpl-3.0.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache    89 Aug 25 07:51 hostimport.csv
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache  4493 Aug 25 07:51 index.php
drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache  4096 Aug 25 07:51 ssl
[root@clstfogi other]# ls -l ssl
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 1675 Aug 25 07:51 srvpublic.crt

It looks like all of the files were regenerated when I reinstalled this morning, unless there is one missing. Are the files being created wrong?

[Joe Schmitt]

I found the issue, a fix has been pushed. A variable was misnamed. Soon as you apply the patch the clients will work again.

[tmerrick]

It works now in git 4493.

[Tom Elliott]

Woot woot.

This was particularly problemattic to figure out. I’m sorry I’m such an idiot.

[Matthieu Jacquart]

It works great, thank you @Tom-Elliott and @Jbob ! You make a great job.
I lost few hours this time but usually I gain so much time thanks to fog, that’s not a big deal.

Oh, is there a difference between git and svn version ?

And last question, I reinstalled computers yesterday with 0.3 client, is there a way to uninstall it in bulk before installing new clients (with command “msiexec /i FOGService.msi /quiet WEBADDRESS=“192.168.1.2” WEBROOT=”")

[Wayne Workman]

@Matthieu-Jacquart said:

Oh, is there a difference between git and svn version ?

No difference, it just comes from a different place. This explains it: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Upgrade_to_trunk#Additional_information_on_svn_and_git_.26_FOG_Trunk

And last question, I reinstalled computers yesterday with 0.3 client, is there a way to uninstall it in bulk before installing new clients (with command “msiexec /i FOGService.msi /quiet WEBADDRESS=“192.168.1.2” WEBROOT=”")

There are many ways to remotely remove and install software. Most of the ways I know use Active Directory with GPO or Scripting or Powershell.

[Matthieu Jacquart]

Ok thanks

I have software to deploy software (GPO or I prefer PDQ deploy), but I don’t know the tips to remove it, I’m going to search