Posts made by anthonyglamis

@Wayne-Workman Correct but won’t that kill my certificate chain? I thought this was my problem all along? So let me try to wrap my head around this. Update the revision. Reinstall fog, register a new client and deploy the same image I had stored? I’ll test this now.

@Wayne-Workman OK I can give those platforms a try. Would you suggest desktop or server?

Can I get a little clarity? I ran svn up from the trunk directory. I restarted my Linux box as it also needed updating for software. Logged back in and I am on the same revision. I thought a reboot would start and stop the fog service thus updating it to the latest revision. Did I miss a command?

@Wayne-Workman Glad to say I created a default master image, and have successfully deployed it 3 times with auto join working flawlessly! This was a test fog server. I am going to start to build out a master for for my corporate office, and will use this template for my 17 remote locations. I plan to have a sever in each communication room, as I want the image to pull from the local LAN rather than over the net. Some of our sites are in dire need of infrastructure upgrades, so I would kill the circuit deploying from a Master Node.

I’ll start to research this a little more, and will also work on the write up of my experience with the help of everyone that helped on this thread.

Also, when I started this project I went with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as a platform. Would anyone suggest migrating to Ubuntu 15.10? Technically I have a stable platform, but I’m wondering how long the platform I am on now will be supported?

Thanks again guys!

@Wayne-Workman honestly you are Absolutely right, but I was so happy to get an image to work also while auto joining I was beside myself. I guess it’s back to the drawing board. I’ll create a baseline tomorrow and load a new client into it and see if I have any luck.

@Tom-Elliott I’m not going to say there were not any small bugs that were fixed via the latest revisions. There were times where images would not even capture, but on a second try they would, or deploy for that matter. I’m not sure about the certificates issue either, logically it makes sense to compile an image, that is not on the domain, install the latest Client Service and then capture that image. Then deploy to your clients. I wasn’t always reinstalling fog after revisions so in theory I should have been successful once or twice.
I have successfully deployed an image to 2 laptops today, but here is what I ended up doing. I had a image I wanted to capture on a computer that was still on my domain. I UN-installed the Client Service, restarted, reinstalled the client service, ensured the client and server were talking (i didn’t have to check the log as it auto joined to AD so obviously it was working), and captured that image. It worked. I figured who cares if I capture an image of a computer already joined to my domain as the client service would rename a unique identifier as well as host name of my choice.

@Arrowhead-IT Well I’m an idiot then because after every revision I was reinstalling Fog. I tested 2 machines. The images were a success and the auto join to AD worked perfectly! This is going to make my life so much easier. Thanks guys for all the help. Thanks for your time. Now I can at least help anyone else that might have AD issues Also for someone like me who is a newbie to Linux, I might compile a write up to help anyone in the future.
Now on to figure out how to store printers and have them map automatically and I will be in serious business!

Once again thank you to everyone that replied to this thread!

@Jbob @Wayne-Workman Workman

For testing purposes I did exactly what you suggested. I have a new image compiled. Uninstalled the client service, ensured it was talking to the server and captured the imaged. I am attempting to deploy it now. I will update with the status. The only thing I am confused about it every time I update my revision I will have to create another image? Interesting. There is a new revision almost everyday.

@Wayne-Workman @jbob @Arrowhead-IT

I can download the cert but only in Chrome. Firefox says there is no data, and IE states page cannot be found.

I was searching through threads and came across a thread in which Arrowhead-IT was having basically the same issues I am. The client works just fine if you install it after an image is deployed. This deployment is with the client service installed on an image and then deployed to a client.
Attached are 2 logs.
The 1st displays the authentication error being logged.
The 2nd log is displays what is logged after I uninstall and re-install the client service on the same machine. Everything starts to work fine after that.

0_1453742762067_LE431_1.log

0_1453742772815_LE431.txt

Update. I reran the deployment of the 2 images I captured and they imaged on both models. They did not auto join to AD though I am receiving the same authentication error in the log. This is odd as before capturing both images I installed the client service 0.9.10 as well as the certificate from http://192.168.1.243/fog/management/other/ssl/svrpublic.crt
Post deployment I uninstalled the client service, and removed the log file. Restarted. Installed the client service again. Restarted, and they auto joined to AD. Obviously I only did that for testing purposes. Am I missing something in the pre-deployment phase?
Should I have reset the encryption data in Group Management?

@Tom-Elliott I just updated to 6064. Do I also need to download the client every time there is a new revision?

@Tom-Elliott I am running 6050, but will update today to the latest.

@george1421
George it is odd to say the least. The images are indeed capturing but I’m really not sure how fog captures them, and if the problem lies there. In the images folder the 1d.mbr mbr file as well as all respective partitions are there. When creating new image I am choosing #2 single disk multiple partition. Next option #1 everything. Deploying fails every time.
The reason I am doing 2 different models is obviously for testing. I want to replicate errors or success across more than one platform.
In all reality I should be focused on the Lenovo E431 platform because the company I work for has these deployed the most. So it will be beneficial for me to get this image working. I am new to Linux so I am learning but I am certain I can pick this up.
After a capture why would fog fail if I am trying to deploy to another CPU that is the same model platform? Is it not capturing a complete image in general? That is my guess.
To answer your other question I have been able to successfully deploy images but those were all in older versions of fog. I have since updated to trunk. The AD/client service is working now, just not the imaging process.
I apologize if I didn’t answer all of your questions in full detail.

Apparently I have no idea what I am doing. I captured both images, tried to deploy them and I get this error
“an error has been detected no partition type passed (perform non resize restore)”
I don’t get what I might be doing wrong. Any ideas?

The Dell 1d.mbr is 32Kb
Upon inspection of the d1.mbr file for my Lenovo E431 captured image it is 1 MB according to the Fog Wiki it should be 32 KB

The option Single disk, multiple partition will manage to upload/deploy all the partition of the disk. The OStype setted to Linux will copy a 32256 bytes MBR.

NOTE: setting a Windows 7 OStype, will clone a 512 bytes MBR: at the boot the system will show the string GRUB and then will hang!

With this configuration, after the image upload, in the directory /images of the fog server there should be a directory with the name selected for the image containing:

d1.mbr (the MBR: should be 32256 bytes)
d1p1.img
d1p2.img
d1p4.img

there are 1 file for partition, with the exception of the swap partition.

Updated to Fog 6050, installed the latest client service and installed the certificate from my server in my certificate store just to be sure. The dell 3450 instantly rebooted and joined to AD. I am starting over from scratch with new cert and client installed. Am taking two more captures now, and will deploy as soon as I’m done. Operating system Win 7 Pro, models are Dell3450-I5/Lenovo E431-I3.
I will update if these images work and join to AD.

OK update time. I updated Fog to 6048. Captured 2 images with updated client service. Operating systems are Windows 7 pro. Models are Lenovo E431, and Dell Latitude 3450. The d1.mbr file was captured for both images.

The Dell 3450 just finished, however it did not join to AD. Attached is the log. I am getting an authentication error again. Not too sure what I might be doing wrong. I reset the encryption data for each host before the capture. I noticed that is an option in the group setting as well. Should I have done that?
0_1453407792520_3450fog.log

The Lenovo E431 partclone process didn’t even start. The error is “problem opening# Error is 2” Partition file missing /images/E431I3/d1p.img* the specified file does not exist.
In my /images directory that file is there, but it is named as follows:
itadmin@fogserver:/images/E431I3$ ls
d1.fixed_size_partitions d1.original.fstypes d1p2.img
d1.mbr d1.original.swapuuids d1p3.img
d1.minimum.partitions d1p1.img d1.partitions
Is this just a matter of renaming those files to what fog is looking for? Lol it will not boot not since the initial partclone process wipes the mbr. I’m bricking things left and right! Woop Woop!

@george1421 Thanks! I completely missed that step.

OK so I’m having a brain fart today. I wanted to update to the latest version. I ran the install.sh and it rolled me back to 6032. Where is the latest version located?
Never mind, I was in the wrong folder. I am back on 6038, but would still like to upgrade to the latest version. I thought the installer would update.

I used this link and SVN

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=SVN

@Tom-Elliott
Do you need any information from me concerning the images I have that did not create the d1.mbr file? Just asking as I have to update the Fog server and start recapturing new images with the latest client. I essentially have no use for the previous images I created.

Come to think of it those images have the previous client service from 1.2.0, I’m guessing I will want to update the client service and capture again?

@Wayne-Workman
@Arrowhead-IT
Pertaining to the images I deleted from the Fog UI, they are still present in the /Images directory. So if I create a new image in the Fog UI and name the file the image name it adds. The file size is 0.0
Will this populate when I attempt to deploy the image to a new host? Just curious as I don’t want to deploy a 0.0 image size to one of my hosts lol