Automate FOG Client Install

[Joe Schmitt]

@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 SmartInstaller Switches section.

[dholtz-docbox]

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.

[Joe Schmitt]

@dholtz-docbox example usage of the switches I post a link to just now:

mono SmartInstaller.exe --server=my-fog-server --tray

[dholtz-docbox]

@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

[dholtz-docbox]

@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

[Joe Schmitt]

@dholtz-docbox switch and command parameters are 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.

[Wayne Workman]

There now: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_Client#FOG_Client_0.10.0.2B_Installation_Options

[dholtz-docbox]

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?

[Joe Schmitt]

@dholtz-docbox the tray defaults to off. Even if you use the -t switch, 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.

[dholtz-docbox]

@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?

[Joe Schmitt]

@dholtz-docbox yes. If i switch it set, it uses that option. Otherwise it doesn’t.

[dholtz-docbox]

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

[george1421]

@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