Topics created by BigMan99211

FOG installs the FOG User when it’s installed.

The GUI is a database. FTP/local unix is a separate user.

If you can login to the Management page, look at Storage Management->Your Storage Node->Management username and password.

That password should be the password your local UNIX FOG user is using.

look at BootMenu.class.php - in and around line 1010 which is where it “builds” the menu… have a play around, see what works and luckily it’s all hookable, so you can amend it and won’t be reverted on upgrade (due to the fact hooks get copied during install!)

here’s my hook doing something similar if it helps you in the right direction 🙂

[CODE]<?php
class BrandBootMenu extends Hook
{
var $name = ‘BrandBootMenu’;
var $description = ‘customize boot menu items.’;
var $author = ‘Lee Rowlett’;
var $active = true;
public function tweakmenu($arguments)
{
if ($arguments[‘ipxe’][‘head’])
{
$arguments[‘ipxe’][‘head’][7] = ‘colour --rgb 0x036802 2’;
$arguments[‘ipxe’][‘head’][14] = preg_replace(‘#right 80#’,‘right 80 --top 80’,$arguments[‘ipxe’][‘head’][14]);
}
}
}
$BrandBootMenu = new BrandBootMenu();
// Hook Event
$HookManager->register(‘IPXE_EDIT’, array($BrandBootMenu, ‘tweakmenu’));[/CODE]

[quote=“Jaymes Driver, post: 41711, member: 3582”]I also vote for staying on 12.04.

When you ran your svn commands to download the svn, did you do so with sudo?

you may not have write access to the folder if you ran it as sudo.[/quote]

… lol… figured that one out right before I saw your reply!

…reminds me of a bad joke!

Guy: Make me a sandwich
Wife: Make it yourself!
Guy: sudo make me a sandwich
Wife: Ok.
😄

Thanks Tom!

Didn’t know about that option… 😄

DITTO

I had this same issue on my last reinstall, and corrected it.

First, as WolfBane said, you must make sure if you set a MySQL password, you update your config.php file.

Other than that, the fix that worked for me for this issue was to stop and start the MySQL service. After that it works fine. Try running the following in Terminal:
[CODE]sudo service mysql stop
sudo service mysql start[/CODE]

If you go to the web interface after this, click next on the database schema update page, does it let you go on? If yes, then see my permanent fix for this solution [URL=‘http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/mysql-problem-what-am-i-doing-wrong.10515/#post-27515’]here[/URL].

Hope this works for you, let us know!

That did the trick!

Thanks Jaymes!

I back all of the images to another FOG server using rsync; worked very well via crontabs

[CODE]sudo rsync -azvv -e ssh root@192.168.248.113:/images/HP* /images/[/CODE]

You have to ssh at least ONCE to the source FOG so that the certificate gets added; then it works with no interaction

Thanks, Tom! Big help!! My image names are really long, and they usually take up 2-3 lines of space. So, having the shading helps me in telling where one image name ends and the other begins… 🙂

@Tom-Elliott

I have a fresh centos VM install that I can use, i’ll have a look today and install SVN trunk from scratch. There could well have been something in the SQL backup restore that SVN didn’t like. I’ll post in a fresh thread so that this doesn’t get polluted too much.

What do you mean by, the snapins are host related by design? I don’t mind that I have to select them, but could you add a selection option in the Full Host Registration menu, through iPXE? I just want to be able to take a new machine out of the box, plug it in, boot to the FOG menu, go through Full Host Registration, add hostname, image ID, domain add option, and snapin option, then let it go on it’s merry way.

Right now, the only way I can achieve zero touch, is to manually create the host through the web interface. It would be nice to be able to select all the same settings though iPXE.

Re-package your desired software that you normally deploy with PDQ deploy into MSI’s (test all of them to confirm they install correctly). Create Snapins and have them auto-deploy when desired. ??? Profit!

And in FOG we use Partclone and Partimage. The problem is we are using previously created services to complete the required task here. FOG is open source, it uses all open source pieces to complete the puzzle. These are free.

Ghost is a privately created and operated, it uses it’s own services specifically designed for Ghost, not a piece designed for something else but achieves the same goal. That is why ghost costs. They also have a development team… I know your heart is in the right place, but as long as you keep comparing FOG to another imaging solution that is maintained by a full team of devs, FOG is always going to seem to be lacking.

My corporation uses FOG because it is free and it is versatile.

Personally I tend to enjoy the fact of being able to over come my obstacles with my own knowledge of linux. I realize that not everyone has this experience, but if you continue to compare apples and oranges eventually your fruit will rot if you don’t eat it 🙂

I may remove the need for the \ all together. I mean, you’ve already got the domain in place, so why not use that, then just have a setup like:

domain: test
ou:
domain username: user
domain password:ao723597u32l4kjfldgpjdas;fjkasupiou2j5kasjfk;

Then when the call to send it comes along send it as:
$Host->get(‘ADDomain’).‘’.$Host->get(‘ADUser’)

I like your idea of booting into a pre-boot environment to do minor changes; however it seems like you are taking are hard approach at doing this when you could be creating your image with virtual box using snapshots at each major step so if you miss something or mess something up you can just revert the snapshot. Its still a timely and daunting process to create an image this way but it takes out the headaches of having to start from scratch each time. Then each time you think you have it right or after each modification you simply upload your new image over your old one.

Exactly as Tom says. Good luck.

VincentJ you can name them as you want, but I set the fog service to rename them, and if they don’t meet my naming scheme I track them through a management software, a couple of them really, so I can see the Host name assigned to the machine.

I check all of this and even fix it if necessary, which has only been the case on like 4 machines, and then I activate my windows. Everything I do is tied to a user log in, it registers everything to my novel tree and context, names the computer, enables novel auto log in (which heavily depends on the host name of the machine) then it activates windows.

It doesn’t cost anything, I just have to figure out where the bug is and squash it.

ok, thanks.