@predator said in Installing a new clean fog server:

What is the best and simplest OS to use with FOG? I have read that some have problems with ubuntu… Furthermore i am a noob in Linux distro’s and it would help me a lot to have something that’s stable and simple with a GUI.

My goal is to implement a virtual fog server for the enterprise where i am currently working so i can deploy images over pxe boot.

I’ve been using Ubuntu Server 16.04.2 without any issues, and it’s super easy to deploy and manage. Also, I know this might seem scary or counter-intuitive, but I would actually recommend NOT using a GUI (that’s why I deployed the “server” version of Ubuntu).

I’m a little confused by the fact that you said your goal is to “implement a virtual fog server” in an “enterprise” environment, but you’re trying to build this “environment” using VMware Workstation. Have you considered deploying VMware ESXi? It’s free and would be more ideal than using VMware Workstation. I’m not saying you can’t do it that way, but it’s not a very common way of going about it, especially in an “enterprise” environment.

With that said, if you’re going to use VMware Workstation, I would think you would want to setup the PC that’s running VMware Workstation (the IP of this machine can be DHCP or static), then build an Ubuntu VM using NAT and set a static IP on this guest.

If you have a DHCP and DNS server in your environment (which it sounds like you already do), during the FOG setup, you should be able to make the following selections when installing:

• When prompted if you’d like to change the default network interface, type “N”

• When prompted if you’d like to setup a router address for the DHCP server, type “Y”

• When prompted for the IP address to be used for the router on the DHCP server, press Enter if it already shows your correct router address (or type in the correct one if it’s not already displayed)

• When prompted if you’d like DHCP to handle DNS, type “Y”

• When prompted for what DNS address DHCP should allow, press Enter if it already shows the correct address (or type in the correct address if it’s not already displayed)

• When prompted if you’d like to use the FOG server for DHCP service, type “N”

You’ll then want to go to your DHCP server and make sure that the following scope options are configured:

• 066 Boot Server Host Name = make sure this is the IP of your FOG server
• 067 Bootfile Name = undionly.kpxe

You can either configure those scope options globally under IPv4 under “Server Options”, or you can configure them under “Scope Options” under each Scope that you want to allow access to the FOG server.

@predator said in Installing a new clean fog server:

SELinux to permissive on boot

See if this info helps: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SELinux/Tutorials/Permissive_versus_enforcing

Looks like George already beat me to a reply :D, and his info ended up being more to the point of what you need with regards to FOG ;).

Something JLE said is the first thing I thought about (ip helper-addresses). If you can get access to login to the switch, find the relevant documentation online for your switch and verify if the VLAN has an ip helper-address configured.

On our ProCurves, we could check like this:

show ip helper-address

or we could configure like this:

config
vlan <vlan_number>
ip helper-address <IP_of_your_DHCP_server>
write mem
end

@tom-elliott You rock Tom! Thanks for the help man! : )

@tom-elliott Capslock is definitely not on. You saw exactly what I pasted into the shell prompt (what you see in my previous post is what I copied straight out of my shell prompt from the server) :-X…

@tom-elliott Dang, this is getting more confusing :D.

@tom-elliott Ah, I get what you’re saying now, sorry 'bout that; my bad.

OK, so I copied and pasted this (exactly) and here are the results:

UPDATE `users` SET `uPass` = MD5('password') WHERE `uName` = 'fog';

I just tried logging in with “fog” and “password”, but it still fails.

Did you notice my post earlier where I said that I don’t see a “fog” user in the mySQL db?

I think I may have found the problem! I’m kinda surprised nobody thought to try this! I just ran:

mysql> select user from mysql.user;
+------------------+
| user             |
+------------------+
| fogstorage       |
| debian-sys-maint |
| mysql.session    |
| mysql.sys        |
| root             |
+------------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Notice there’s no “fog” user! This is especially confusing to me since I followed these instructions to a tee!:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Restoring_FOG_from_Backup

@sebastian-roth Sebastian… I’m confused… I posted the exact command that I typed, and it DOES include “MD5()” with the password hash inside it. I did it correctly already, right?

@tom-elliott Let me know if I did this correctly (it looks like I did):

mysql> UPDATE `users` SET `uPass` = MD5('$2y$11$g0Hu8OaOStuPk7WWYGh6Wu4PLlZDZGOkzMwEEAk.rZMrI9IdDwno.') WHERE `uName` = 'fog';
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
Rows matched: 1  Changed: 1  Warnings: 0

Was I supposed to use the ( and ) in that command?

I just tested my login again (“fog” as the username and “password” as the password), and got the same results (the login screen clears and there’s no message or error).

BTW, the “Changed: 1” is because I hadn’t changed/updated it since running the “test” earlier.

@tom-elliott I just did a show databases; and this is the results:

mysql> show databases;
+--------------------+
| Database           |
+--------------------+
| information_schema |
| fog                |
| mysql              |
| performance_schema |
| sys                |
+--------------------+
5 rows in set (0.00 sec)