Quick question – Originally we were under our own Open Licensing and had a number of volume licenses. Now that we’re part of another company we fall under their licensing agreement which, in this case, is Select Licensing. I’m assuming I’d actually need to be using KMS licenses to follow this guide…

Is there a way to simplify the licensing issue with these current open licenses and the new Select licensing?

chad, thanks so much for taking the time to post this. this will be a huge help fixing my current imaging process to clean it up. I’ll probably have a handful of questions if you don’t mind answering or if anyone else from the community can chime in, I’ll take all the help I can get.

Off-topic - Is there a FOG chat/IRC?

Just to add more information to provide insight to our current imaging process, I had been using this guide previously:

[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/windows-7-deployment-fog-sad2-driver-tool.380/[/url]

We have a stable image now but I still feel like we have too much hands on with the machine after it has been imaged.

It’s the licensing thing – [url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/how-do-you-deal-with-licensing.5560/[/url]

I do have that specified and actually, I just figured this thing out. I was going through the steps of enabling SPAN on the port and as I was setting the destination port, the switch didn’t like the port security being on if I was going to monitor it. I disabled switchport security on both ports and bam, the VM boots into the PXE menu.

I don’t know that I really need this feature on anyhow but then again I’m only studying for the CCENT, i’m no network engineer

Thanks for the follow up and support chad. Now if you can spare some time to help me with my other issue

Thanks, I’ll give this a look. I also found a guide on enabling SPAN/RSPAN to monitor the port. I’ll try this and post what I find.

Also, I don’t believe the FOG server is set up as a DHCP server (I believe that was an option during initial setup?) so the WRT is actually providing DHCP if I remember my setup correctly.

Yep, that’s correct.

There’s also the Linksys WRT54G router attached to this Cisco switch. This thing is completely off of the production network so nothing else attached besides that and other workstations getting imaged.

I guess if I could draw it out it would look like this:

Linksys Router -> Cisco 2960 24 port PoE switch -> Workstations

Here’s the error message I see when the VM is attempting to PXE boot.

%PORT_SECURITY-2-PSECURE_VIOLATION: Security Violation occurred, caused by MAC address 000c.2994.8afd on port FastEthernet0/2

It says this repeatedly.

Here’s the configuration on the port, just like every other port:

interface FastEthernet0/2
switchport mode access
switchport port-security
switchport port-security aging time 2
switchport port-security violation restrict
switchport port-security aging type inactivity
macro description cisco-desktop
spanning-tree portfast
spanning-tree bpduguard enable

Are you familiar with what I should be seeing? I do notice that when the VM is attempting to get an IP, there are repeated errors regarding port security. I’m no longer in the office but I can paste the error message here when I’m back in the office. When I’m attempting to boot the VM, I see the same error message over and over.

I’m logged onto the switch on the same machine so I can see it happening.

I’d ask my networking guy but to be completely honest, I’m actually studying for CCENT/CCNA and I’d like to see if I can’t figure this out. Additionally, when I saw him configuring this switch he was using Cisco SDM (or whatever GUI you can use to configure these switches).

Thanks for your help chad.