Posts made by Asthea

@Tom-Elliott Will we be able to alpha/beta test FOG 2.0? I’d really be interested.

@Jbob Yes, spawning a new thread was what I was going to try out next. Thanks for the help.

I’m trying to make a plugin that scans a folder periodically to detect any addition/removal of files. The problem is, when I try to implement this functionality with a simple while(true)-loop and sleep(), FOG completely stops working. Does FOG have some sort of TimeTick-Event that I can use for this mechanism?

Thanks.

@ch3i Yes, I meant having widgets on the dashboard.

@Jbob I see, thanks for the answer.

Don’t forget to exportfs -a, I know I’m being captain obvious here, but I just want to make sure jbonilla doesn’t skip any steps.

Just for comparison, this is how I boot:

:ubuntu 
kernel http://${fog-ip}/fog/iso/ubuntu64/desktop/casper/vmlinuz.efi
initrd http://${fog-ip}/fog/iso/ubuntu64/desktop/casper/initrd.lz
imgargs vmlinuz.efi root=/dev/nfs boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=${fog-ip}:/var/www/fog/iso/ubuntu64/desktop/ locale=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-configuration/layoutcode=us mirror/country=US
boot || goto MENU

with chmod set to 755 on the folders. Btw, your vmlinuz and initrd should usually be located in the casper folder.

Ups, sry, wasn’t specific enough I guess, I meant GUI widgets.

@Tom-Elliott Ok I figured it out. The problem were the comments in the AddHostSerial.hook.php:

	/** @var $name the name of the hook */
	public $name = 'AddHostSerial';
	/** @var $description the description of what the hook does */
	public $description = 'Adds host serial to the host lists';
	/** @var $author the author of the hook */
	public $author = 'Junkhacker with edits from Tom Elliott';
	/** @var $active whether or not the hook is to be running */
	public $active = true;

Those @var $name Symbols are not very PHP friendly it seems.

Thanks for the help, Tom.

I’d be awesome if FOG had similar drag and drop’able widgets like e.g. Wordpress has. I’m thinking about coding this myself but seeing as I’m a complete newbie to PHP I figure it’d probably be faster to request this feature.

Any chance this will be implemented in the future?

@Tom-Elliott I modified the VNC hook now to represent a minimal (working) example:

class HostVNCLink extends Hook {
	var $name = 'HostVNCLink';
	var $description = 'Adds a "VNC" link to the Host Lists';
	var $author = 'Blackout';
	var $active = true;

	function DashboardData($arguments) {
		if ($_REQUEST['node'] == 'home') {
			echo 'test';
		}
	}
}
$HookManager->register('DashboardData', array(new HostVNCLink(), 'DashboardData'));

If I use the exact same code in e.g. AddHostSerial.hook.php (with the classnames changed ofc), the hook doesn’t work. This is what I don’t understand. Do I have to register AddHostSerial somewhere for it to work?

@Tom-Elliott I’ve tried to copy and paste the VNC hook into e.g. AddHostSerial hook, they both use HOST_DATA so they should be interchangeable. Copying VNC code to AddHostSerial didn’t work but for some reason, copying AddHostSerial code to VNC did work. I don’t understand why though.

Hmm, am I missing something or why does only the VNC hook work? All other hooks aren’t working when I set $active = true;. Btw, I’m using FOG 4700.

Ok thanks. I’ll have a look those options then.

Not quite sure if this is the correct forum, but I don’t see any more appropriate categories, so I’ll ask my question here (sry if I missed something):

I’m currently playing around with the (php) code and I was able to pretty much get anything I wanted going. But I seem to have trouble with the following: I want to show the inventory of every device on the dashboard page. I’m not quite sure how to do that though. I have tried several approaches but somehow none of them work (e.g. MySQL query, …). How do I go about when I want to show certain inventory elements of specific devices on the dashboard page, or to be more precise, which classes/functions do I have to call?

Thanks.

Edit: I decided to try to use hooks to solve this problem.

@Wayne-Workman @Tom-Elliott Solved the problem. Somehow curl had a problem with me being behind a proxy, no idea why though, never had this problem before. As a result, bzimage, bzimage32, init.xz and init_32.xz were not downloaded correctly. I solved this problem by using wget to manually download those files (the download links are in /lib/common/functions.sh).

Also another problem in /lib/common/functions.sh: I was not able to add the repository for php5-5.6, so I had to comment out those lines. In my case this is not a problem, as I’m now using Ubuntu 15.04, which already has php 5.6 preinstalled (at least if you dist-upgrade and update).

Thanks again for the very fast help.

@Wayne-Workman Ok I installed everything on Ubuntu 15.04 now, still exactly the same problem.

Ok I will test it. Thanks for the fast answer.

I am using the newest FOG revision (SVN) and can neither register to host anymore nor can I use services like retrieving system information. Whenever I try to e.g. register to host from the ipxe boot menu the registration process altogether seems to be skipped completely and the normal boot menu appears. When I use FOG 1.2.0 it works without any problems though. If I add the client pc manually via MAC address in FOG, the ipxe boot menu shows the client to be registered but if I schedule a simple task (e.g. get system information) the task is not executed.

I’m running FOG on Ubuntu 12.04.5 in a VM (Virtualbox) while the client PC is a (real) physical pc. Also when I create an additional VM and use it as client and try to register that client to host I get the error message: FATAL: INT18: Boot failure.

I have already tried restarting all services, nothing helped. Does anyone have a suggestion on what the problem might be?

Thanks.