Posts made by arnaudrigole

@x23piracy
I don’t understand? i have to setup the ftp server on windows 2008r2, which isn’t a client of fog
And again the powershell file will not work on 2008r2 which is radically different of 2012

@george1421
George, could you explain how to do that powershell cmds in 2008r2? or maybe with graphic interface?

Set-ItemProperty "IIS:\Sites\FOGFtpSite" -Name ftpServer.security.ssl.controlChannelPolicy -Value 0
Set-ItemProperty "IIS:\Sites\FOGFtpSite" -Name ftpServer.security.ssl.dataChannelPolicy -Value 0
Set-ItemProperty "IIS:\Sites\FOGFtpSite" -Name ftpServer.security.authentication.basicAuthentication.enabled -Value $true
Set-ItemProperty "IIS:\Sites\FOGFtpSite" -Name ftpserver.userisolation.mode -Value 4
Add-WebConfiguration "/system.ftpServer/security/authorization" -value @{accessType="Allow";roles="fog_users";permissions="Read,Write";users=""} -PSPath IIS:\ -location "FOGFtpSite"
Restart-WebItem "IIS:\Sites\FOGFtpSite"

@george1421
Hello George,

Thank you for your explanations. So, if i understand well, fog replication isn’t a plugin? its already installed with basic configuration with master and slaves nodes? And, in my case with my windows server just acting as a nfs storage node, there is no replication because its node defined as a real fog storage node, just an external storage so i don’t have all the features like fog replication?

@x23piracy
This is a good context that shows this picture. Any questions: where the queue size is defined? when i upload an image on a storage group, it’s stored first on master node defined, then automatically replicated on all the others storage nodes? (like my first question to george, is fog replication basically installed & configured with fog)

Thanks you guys! Knowing of fog operations will help me to locate the problems much easier.

Hello everybody,

i use fog in production in my company since 6 months. I encountered many, many, many, many issues with it : kernels, nfs, ftp, tftp, pxe …
BUT, some times it works, and its very helpful !

I have a question , in my setup, i’ve TWO storage nodes, one is fog local storage (fogserver/images)
the other is located on a windows 2008r2 server, which work as a NFS server.

I created two storage groups : LOCAL and EXTERNAL, respectively for local storage & windows storage
When we create an image, we set it on a STORAGE GROUP and no on a storage node, WHY?

Why do we use storage groups ?? i found nothing about “fog replication” but i’ve heard this “plugin” (?) is able to copy some images of a group to another group, but no procedure about it

Last question is, when i upload an image which is member of EXTERNAL group, the client will upload directly his .img files on windows server, OR he sned it on local fog server, then transfer it via FTP on windows server ? i don’t understand it…

Thanks for your help

Arnaud

@Wayne-Workman
Hi Wayne,
What is FOG Replication?

I followed the procedure to test FTP, it was a success. I could connect with fog credentials, create and transfer the test.txt file on external /images directory, and download then delete it…

@george1421
Filezilla displays the logons and actions directly in its console, the “logs” are on page 2, “directory not found” is displayed, because the correspondant directory is not created by fog…

What is the part of fog upload script which create that directories in /images ? i’m almost certain thats component is not working, maybe it has no rw rights on /images , but i don’t know which user / process / protocol is used to create it (FTP too ?)

@george1421
Thanks for that precisions. The credentials used are both the same on webgui & filezilla.

I don’t use built-in ftp server because the procedure described is for 2012, and i don’t master 2008 powershell anymore to find equivalent cmds … FileZilla looks more simply, and seems working because i can connect on it from any client, write any file or directory on it with no problem. But FOG can’t…

@george1421 @Wayne-Workman
Wayne, remember , i’ve already set the complete environment NFS / FTP on my windows server using filezilla & windows nfs . Fog user is already created, with full rw rights on root E: E:/images E:/images/dev

@george1421 I don’t understand what you say ? my ftp server is set up and work ?

@Wayne-Workman
I just transfered .img files in a directory named “P7510Win7prox64CAO” , exactly like defined in the “image path” on the image i created on fog webgui.

Created a storage group for my windows server, and setup this image on that storage group.

Fog don’t see the image size, i think it dont recognize it…

@george1421 @Sebastian-Roth @Wayne-Workman

Thanks for your help. I haven’t new fog server, i just setup a new storage node on Windows Server 2008R2.

Currently, my images are stored on /images on the fog local server, i wanna know if it’s possible to move em on my windows nfs server, like Wayne described : copy all the .img files in fogserver:/images in a directory named exactly as the local fog server directory.

I’m currently copying an image (18gb) on nfs server, then i’ll create the correspondant entry on fog webui and will see if it see the image : )

@Sebastian-Roth
Ok i’ll try :). Thank you.

@Wayne-Workman
Hello Wayne,
After i’ve transfered all img files on the new location (nfs server), how to index it on fog webgui? (make the image recognized by fog server)

@Wayne-Workman @Junkhacker
Thank you very much.

I let you informed about my issue after upgrading to trunk.

Have a good night

@Junkhacker
Is it possible to copy/paste all .img files which are actually on fog local storage, on fog external storage and make em readable for fog webui?
Is it a procedure to transfer an image?

@Junkhacker

Ok i’ll try to snapshot my fog vm before upgrade, then try to upgrade.

Seeing that the early uses it generated more problems than I already was in , I preferred board on version 1.2 . I do not remember exactly , but it was impossible to automatically inventory a machine, it had to be done manually , and after it was impossible to launch any task.

@Wayne-Workman
OK so … what i’ve to do ?..
If i upgrade to trunk, I’ll need to redo all my images, and get pxe boot problems what i’ve already encountered in test environment…

@Wayne-Workman
i hope this is why you ask me:
i just opened a cmd, when type the following cmds:

c:\windows\system32> ftp 10.1.11.64 <-- windows storage node
ftp> use fog
331 password required for fog
ftp> fogpassword
230 Logged on
ftp> cd /informatique/Service_info/FOG/images
250 CWD successful. “/informatique/Service_info/FOG/images” is current directory
ftp> pwd
257 “/informatique/Service_info/FOG/images” is current directory

@Wayne-Workman @george1421
I’m sorry, i don’t understand what you try to say me …
Wayne, what is the CLI? whats the pwd command on a 2008 server?

George, i followed this guide to setup the nfs server, but the powershell commands aren’t the same on 2008 and 2012, i adapted it by search on microsoft an equivalent.(i stopped to follow the guide on that step, because i use FILEZILLA SERVER for ftp)

I don’t understand my problem ; i need to install FTP on my Windows storage node more than filezilla server ?..

It look very complicated, it works just with filezilla + nfs role , but it just can’t create the directory on /images…

@george1421
The 2008 server is the storage node, which is defined directly with its @ip on a fog storage node/group

This is not standard because the only storage location i have in my company (for IT service only) is a dell disk bay managed by Windows 2008r2. We have a netapp managed by unix too but no NFS licence, and no IT datas on it so, i’m forced to use this configuration !

@george1421
the permissions on /images are set to full RW rights to “anonymous” and “everyone” (Windows NFS server)

This is a fresh install in production in my company, can’t use trunk now, need to test it and i’ve already encountered other issues with it, actually i need to make a stable environment to simply upload/deploy images with unicast&multicast

@Sebastian-Roth
Nothing returned by the cmd, because the img is not stored on the local fog server, this is an external NFS storage i created on a Windows server 2008r2 :

The transfer of *.img files doesn’t work after i’ve manually created the correspondant /images directory