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Want to image automatically!!

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    EAHarvey
    last edited by Mar 1, 2017, 9:36 PM

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    • FOG Version: 1.3.5-RC-10
    • OS: Ubuntu server 16
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    I want the machine to boot to the FOG server and automatically
    image the machine with ImageA. If we have to log in that would be ok but would love to have the option to not have that. Whats the best way to do it. Would love it to possibly work with groups. So if any machine in groupA boots to the server it will just image. Thanks so much for all your guys help. ##### Server

    • FOG Version:
    • OS:
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    • Service Version:
    • OS:
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    Server
    • FOG Version: 1.3.5-RC-10
    • OS: Ubuntu server 16
    Client
    • Service Version:
    • OS:
    Description

    I want the machine to boot to the FOG server and automatically
    image the machine with ImageA. If we have to log in that would be ok but would love to have the option to not have that. Whats the best way to do it. Would love it to possibly work with groups. So if any machine in groupA boots to the server it will just image. Thanks so much for all your guys help.

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      george1421 Moderator
      last edited by Mar 1, 2017, 10:38 PM

      Just to be clear on this, every time computer X boots you want to deploy image A to that system? Every single time?

      Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!

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        Wayne Workman @george1421
        last edited by Wayne Workman Mar 1, 2017, 9:18 PM Mar 2, 2017, 3:09 AM

        @george1421 I wouldn’t think so.

        @EAHarvey The boot order on every single host in your environment needs adjusted to boot to the network first & to have WOL enabled, and your images need the FOG Client built into them, and the FOG Client deployed to existing hosts too. After these things are completed, you can deploy to an entire group via the web interface and everything happens ‘automatically’.

        How to get those two firmware configuration changes done is absolutely and totally dependent on the make & model of the systems in your environment.

        If they are all Dell - there is a Dell utility that lets you build EXEs to adjust the firmware with specific settings but even that’s flaky because I’m sure you’ll have older models mixed with newer models and older firmware versions mixed with newer ones.

        If you have systems besides Dell, well obviously the Dell utility won’t work on Lenovos or HPs or IBMs. Those may or may not have an equivalent tool.

        It will probably take longer trying to put together some master en-mass deployment than it would take to just make these changes manually as you need to image.

        What I did was just manually adjust systems as I needed to image them and over the span of 1 year I got them all adjusted eventually. Then I could click group -> deploy and that entire group would boot up (or reboot) and image, then join the domain, and be ready for use shortly after.

        Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!
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          EAHarvey
          last edited by Mar 2, 2017, 2:38 PM

          I thought I remembered something like a preboot addin or something like that. When I first started working on this stuf during 1.2, we had separate part of fog that the machine would boot too and image. For the life of me I can’t remember what it was called. It gave another option to boot. Does this sound familiar at all?

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            Wayne Workman @EAHarvey
            last edited by Mar 2, 2017, 2:57 PM

            @EAHarvey pxe ?

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              george1421 Moderator @EAHarvey
              last edited by Mar 2, 2017, 3:14 PM

              @EAHarvey Again, I want to clarify what you are asking.

              1. I power on a computer, it magically boots into something and receives a new image without touching the computer?

              2. I power up the computer and get to the fog ipxe menu. If it don’t touch the computer it will boot to the OS already installed. But if I do touch the computer, I can select quick image and a new image is deployed to that computer (without needing to touch the FOG console).

              Your question could be read multiple ways.

              Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!

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                EAHarvey @Wayne Workman
                last edited by Mar 2, 2017, 4:12 PM

                @Wayne-Workman maybe it was that. I’m trying to look into group stuff also.

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                  EAHarvey @Wayne Workman
                  last edited by Mar 3, 2017, 2:49 PM

                  @Wayne-Workman yes maybe. think it was called capone?

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                    Wayne Workman @EAHarvey
                    last edited by Mar 3, 2017, 7:31 PM

                    @EAHarvey capone was mostly for un-registered systems. This is ideal for a refurbishing shop or computer repair shop, not for managing a system over its lifespan.

                    Please help us build the FOG community with everyone involved. It's not just about coding - way more we need people to test things, update documentation and most importantly work on uniting the community of people enjoying and working on FOG!
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                      EAHarvey @Wayne Workman
                      last edited by Mar 6, 2017, 12:45 PM

                      @Wayne-Workman Roger that.

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                        EAHarvey
                        last edited by Mar 17, 2017, 3:58 PM

                        We can close this. Moving on.

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