Posts made by adukes40

That does the storage nodes. So would I be correct in saying the following:

Create a FOG to be a Main, top dog server, then for all servers at other locations, I would use the location plugin to tie them all together? Which would mean I can push out images to image locally to that location, however the main FOG server is the only one handling the hosts and groups?

Also for the FOG service I would enter the IP of the main server for communication, but the nearest FOG server to the client should be the one handling the imaging? Or does the FOG service need to be configure per location?

Sorry still learning FOG, and its processes.

Is this possible? I have seen where the images can be replicated, but can the hosts be as well. I ask because sometimes we have machine that travel between multiple buildings and will e imaged there. We are trying not to have to register the machine at every building.

We are a windows shop, so FOG on windows is of interest. Is there any notes on 2.0 for S and G’s

@george1421 I will label step by step best i can.

1. go to machine, and enter PXE
2. TFTP loads
3. when the bash prompts comes up we enter ./autoimage.s, this run the imaging script
4. the script then appears on the screen with questions such as: what OS do you want to use, what room is this for, what is the SLA, and which printer config do you wish to use. the LOC variable is determines after windows installed and is populated based off the gateway being used. The others I just mentions are entered by hand.
5. once everything is enters there is a verification at the end of the script and if it is correct we type: yes and the script pulls the correct OS, and takes those other values and stores them in a .txt file.
   once all the imaging is done, windows starts, and runs our first auto logon script which basically runs dpinst, and sets the environment variables based on the info in those txt files.
6. next the second script runs which reruns dpinst to catch any usb 3.0 drivers left to install, joins the domain, runs a zenwokrs command to install applications. and reboots. after this reboot the ctrl alt delete screen comes up and the machine is ready.

Maybe that clears it up some. If not, I can try to vpn into my machine and grab that ./autoimage.s script so you can see what I am talking about.

@george1421 I will type this the best I can from my phone. In our environment we insert 5 variables. They are as follows. loc, room, SLA, printer, build. Although build might not be necessary and printer is just to state a b or c to set the default printer in the print policies in Zenworks. Loc tells what school location it is, room is the room in the school, SLA is an F, A, S, T variable that tells the difference between a faculty machime or a student machine etc. So basically is the varibles go as follows…HS, 623, F this means we can assign things to the faculty machine in that room in the high school. So students don’t get certain programs. We basically use it for app deployment and printer assignment.
Also, we are trying to automate the whole process. Having the prompt on first reboot won’t be an option. Believe me, the students would be messing with that like no one’s business.
As stated previously we use Zenworks for imaging which is Linux based. We just use a custom .s script in place of their default script. That script let’s us input values them saves them into a .txt in zens image safe partition. I believe then once the base image is pushed somewhere in the process zen moves those files to Windows and our auto logon scripts kick off and call the info in the txt files. (I can try to verify that process) but I know I’m close.
Man that’s a lot to type on the phone lol. Hopefully it comes across as clear, if not I will try to explain better when I have a keyboard.

I was thinking that was not a direct way. We currently have zenworks imaging and we have an imaging script that lets us enter variables which gets stored into an image safe location and during one of the auto logons a PS scripts runs that sets those variables based on the inputed value. I would assume there is no way that could be handled? If not would I need to create a room group for each room in each building then have a snapin at group level that runs the needed command on those machines?

We use environment variables to help distribute software. We use such vars as LOC, which is the location of the school, like HS or MS, etc. We also use room to distinguish the exact room the machine is in. Is there a way we can have FOG set theses somewhere so a PS script can pull them and setx them so the variables will be in place for our future use?

Thanks.

Just wanted to say I updated to SVN 6955 and inventory is running great. Thanks Sebastian and Tom for the hard work.

Ok, thanks Sebastian. I appreciate the quick responses.

Did you need me to provide anything? I’m new to Linux, but learning. I can try to pull things if you need, but might need a little step by step if so… Thanks again

So I built a server a few days ago in our test lab. When registering a machine it works great. So today I built a server in production. When I went to do a full registration, I noticed the host name did not stick. When I clicked the host I saw that the inventory said there was no data, but the host exists. I decided to try a new machine but this time using quick reg. Same result. It gets more strange, in the host list it has a green marker next to it. I then tried to capture an image. It started the image capture and in the FOG GUI it then had a red marker saying “no device or address”. the second machine did the same thing. Yet I could deploy an image to it.
I am not sure where to begin. What kind of information do you all need? I did just update to the latest SVN as of tonight which was 6951?? I think.

Thanks a bunch