Automate FOG Client Install
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@Joe-Schmitt said in Automate FOG Client Install:
Why disregard the built in auto-updater of the client and build your own? It’s extra work for seemingly no real benefit.
No, for negative benefit. The host’s security token being reset is not good, and completely throwing out the security model that the update process uses is not wise - as the installer authenticates the signature of any update that it would handle on it’s own.
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Regarding point #2, I believe we are misunderstanding each other, but we are saying the same thing. What alarmed me was Wayne’s statement that the FOG Client automatically updates itself; what I missed was the one word he had in bold, where it only applies based on my server. Whoopsie…
Yes, the config.json was what I wanted the installed to use, but it ignores the file from what I can see. I am also not sure what these switches are. Is it something handled by mono, or is it just another name for a command parameter? I don’t mind passing this information along, I just didn’t think I could - so I was looking to do something similar to your other installation process.
-Dustin
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@dholtz-docbox I’m not sure if the smart installer switches are in the wiki yet (pinging @Wayne-Workman). The list is here:
https://news.fogproject.org/fog-client-v0-11-0-released-2/ See the
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PS > I might have said the wrong word, but I have no desire to overwrite any functionality in how the FOG Client does its business - why would I. I just want to make sure machines run through this process have the client installed with no manual intervention, and right now it appeared to me that the only way I could go through installing this was manually.
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@dholtz-docbox example usage of the switches I post a link to just now:
mono SmartInstaller.exe --server=my-fog-server --tray -
@Joe-Schmitt : Awesome! Thanks for linking that; it sounds like it’s all I need, if I am following everything. Let me give it a better read though.
-Dustin
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@Joe-Schmitt : Yeah, I was glad to see that switch was just another word for what I know as command parameters. Is “switch” the preferred verbiage here, for my own knowledge? I am but a fledgling still in the world of… everything you guys do, I guess, heh. So much more to learn…
-Dustin
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@dholtz-docbox
switchandcommand parametersare just different words for the same thing. It doesn’t really matter which one you use. Some places call them switches, others installation arguments, others commands parameters. -
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Just to clarify on one piece real quick, for the options that specify to include something, like tray, do they default to “no” when using switches? I know tray isn’t used in Linux, unless that changed, so it’s moot. I was just curious since they didn’t specify defaults, if they defaulted to disabled/false/no.
Edit> I see when using MSI switches, it specifies the default and allows you to set tray and other binary settings, but does not provide a method for specifying on/off for tray and others in Linux. Is this just because they aren’t used, so it doesn’t matter one-way-or-another?
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@dholtz-docbox the tray defaults to off. Even if you use the
-tswitch, the tray still wouldn’t run on linux. All that does is tell the installer to enable the tray in the settings file. Once the client runs, it sees that it should run the tray, but it’s not compatibility with linux so it ignores the instruction. It’s one of the limitations for linux listed on the wiki. -
@Joe-Schmitt : Okay, that’s what I thought, regarding tray. I wasn’t sure for the other setting, https I presume. Does it default to “0” as well, unless specified via. its switch?
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@dholtz-docbox yes. If i switch it set, it uses that option. Otherwise it doesn’t.
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Awesome. Thanks for clarifying everything; sorry for being so explicit, I am multitasking a lot while trying to finalize this for our next release coming up, and it’s easier to ask some questions than trial-by-fire it myself at this moment.
-Dustin
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@Joe-Schmitt Just to add a little more detail here.
As I posted before. I have MDT build my reference image using the lite touch process. Once the process is kicked off I don’t touch the reference image until its time for sysprep. I have the fog client installed via an application in MDT. This is the command I use to install the FOG Client.
@Echo Off start /wait msiexec.exe /i FOGService.msi /quiet USETRAY="0" WEBADDRESS="192.168.1.53" net stop "FogService" sc config "FogService" start= disabled
