@x23piracy said in Webcast: Imaging with FOG, Managing with PDQ:
Sounds great how do you guys want to manage fog images in a better way as it is? Little details please?
FYI i am a paying PDQ Deploy CustomerLovely tool.
What i found so far:
http://bobhenderson.org/fog-zero-touch-imaging-with-pdq-deploy/
http://bobhenderson.org/pdq-deploy-fog-imaging-happiness-take-2/Regards X23
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ha, holy crap, that’s me!
@Wayne-Workman I find that a bit overzealous. My fog server itself is a crappy *buntu Vm with 2g of ram and 2 cores, hooked into our Vswitch of 8 ports, and my clients are all i5 8g of ram laptops. I routinely image 10 at a time in unicast, 40+ in multicast. When I have all 10 imaging, yes, the imaging is around 50% slower than just doing 1, but the time savings are still huge.
Server is setup as CST, according to running date and checking the tzdata.
I grabbed the client log , and thats where it was. For some reason, it was having CA issues. I reset the encryption for the host, ran a command, and it worked.
I should really have looked there before posting…
I’ve set up a power manager rule in my server to reboot machines every night at 6:01pm CST. However, after checking, this event never happens. Things I’ve checked:
-Power manager service is enabled on the server, and the client install.
-Cron appears setup correct, with it being 01 18 * * * with the action of Reboot
-the Power Management job appears correctly under the affected hosts.
-machines are not sleeping nor already off, as there are GPO’s in place to stop that from taking place, hence wanting this to take over for the big reboot.
Any suggestions? It’s no deal breaker by any means, but would be a huge help for us.
@Tom-Elliott said in Unattend install of Fog:
I guess I don’t fully understand.
If you’re running the RC’s, the install argument
-ywill do the trick for you.
Ah, perfect. That’s exactly what I was looking for, a way for it not to ask me things afterwards and just accept all the defaults.
Now I can put this into an ansible playbook, and be able to spin up a copy of the infrastructure super quick. Thanks!
I’ve been on a kick to ansible all of my server roles/configs to make my entire environment pretty quick and easy to deploy. FOG is one that is being a bit of a stickler, however.
is there a way to pass variable or a configuration to the fog installfog.sh script, allowing me to automate it out to a key? Or should I look into building a wrapper around it and using expect to push info from a variable file?
No dice here. It’s open house night at work.
on the plus side, was able to use FOG to image out 700 units in 3 hours today. Thanks, multicast and stacked switches!
@danpbow Short answer; No, no it is not.
Long answer: No, unless you’re wanting to spend thousands at a data recovery spot and potentially get nothing back for it.
This is a great chance for you to discuss backup, and if you’re in a domain environment, setup redirected folders and the like.
@x23piracy Look at the wiki bud, it’s in there line for line.
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_Client#FOG_Client_with_Sysprep
sc config FOGService start= auto
shutdown -t 0 -r
you basically put that in your setupcomplete.cmd and boom, done.
@Psycholiquid Just did the exact same thing, and pushed out an image multicast to 46 devices in 13 minutes, from start to being able to login.
best. Feeling. Ever.
@Tom-Elliott Perfect. Thanks so much.
looks like I needed to just give it a moment. I went down to take a look at it again, and it had joined the domain and all was hunky dory. I just reset the encryption on the other host that was giving me the same issue, and it joined right up as well.
Now, is there any way to not have to reset the encryption per host manually? I’m looking at 700 hosts to image out, and while it’s doable, it’ll be…tedious.
Alright, here’s a chunk of the log, as it’s too long to post here in it’s entirety. Note, this image was originally captured on 8533. The server has been updated to RC-4 since then.
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7/28/2016 8:41 AM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.3
7/28/2016 8:41 AM Client-Info Client OS: Windows
7/28/2016 8:41 AM Client-Info Server Version: 8533
7/28/2016 8:41 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Unable to get subsection
7/28/2016 8:41 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
7/28/2016 8:41 AM Middleware::Communication URL: http://10.1.0.24/fog/management/index.php?sub=requestClientInfo&configure&newService&json
7/28/2016 8:41 AM Middleware::Response Success
7/28/2016 8:41 AM Service Sleeping for 95 seconds
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Communication URL: http://10.1.0.24/fog/management/index.php?sub=requestClientInfo&mac=34:02:86:FD:7C:58|34:02:86:FD:7C:59|34:E6:D7:7C:4B:96|34:02:86:FD:7C:5C||00:00:00:00:00:00:00:E0&newService&json
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Authentication Waiting for authentication timeout to pass
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Communication Download: http://10.1.0.24/fog/management/other/ssl/srvpublic.crt
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Data::RSA FOG Server CA cert found
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Authentication Cert OK
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Communication POST URL: http://10.1.0.24/fog/management/index.php?sub=requestClientInfo&authorize&newService
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response Invalid security token
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response Success
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Communication URL: http://10.1.0.24/fog/service/getversion.php?clientver&newService&json
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Communication URL: http://10.1.0.24/fog/service/getversion.php?newService&json
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Service Creating user agent cache
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Unable to get subsection
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Unable to get subsection
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Unable to get subsection
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
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---------------------------------ClientUpdater--------------------------------
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7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.3
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client OS: Windows
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Server Version: 8533
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response Success
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----------------------------------TaskReboot----------------------------------
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7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.3
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client OS: Windows
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Server Version: 8533
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Unable to get subsection
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
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--------------------------------HostnameChanger-------------------------------
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7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.3
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client OS: Windows
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Server Version: 8533
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Unable to get subsection
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
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---------------------------------SnapinClient---------------------------------
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7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.3
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client OS: Windows
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Server Version: 8533
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Unable to get subsection
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
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--------------------------------PrinterManager--------------------------------
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7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.3
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client OS: Windows
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Server Version: 8533
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Unable to get subsection
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
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--------------------------------PowerManagement-------------------------------
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7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.3
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client OS: Windows
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Server Version: 8533
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Unable to get subsection
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
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----------------------------------UserTracker---------------------------------
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7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client Version: 0.11.3
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Client OS: Windows
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Client-Info Server Version: 8533
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Unable to get subsection
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response ERROR: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Communication URL: http://10.1.0.24/fog/management/index.php?sub=requestClientInfo&configure&newService&json
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Middleware::Response Success
7/28/2016 8:43 AM Service Sleeping for 115 seconds
Also getting this same issue, Windows 10, RC-4 with client 0.11.3
Yep, we’re using Vlans. I’m 100% sure it’s going to be my switches that are currently giving me the issue, but am in a bit of a time crunch.
I’ll be putting in a netgear switch, since I have a few of those spare. One of the GSM7248v2 models. Not as good as a spare Procurve or the like, but it’s what I’ve got.
Luckily, all devices I’m working with here are modern (haswell or newer) i5’s with 8g of ram and SSDs, so I hope it’ll keep up.
Just a question to see if this is possible. Multicast over my lan is slow enough that unicast ends up being a better option. We’re talking pushing maybe 60 Mbps. I’m sure this is something to do with the config of my Cisco switches, but unless it’s a super quick fix, that’s neither here nor there.
I’m wondering the following:
I setup a physical fog server, replicate over the images from my master server. Import all my hosts into it as well. I plug this server into a switch, and plug all my clients into that switch. I plug the switch into the network, and update my DHCP settings to point to this new, physical fog server.
clients boot. get to the join multi-task option on all clients. disconnect the switch from the network, effectively isolating it. join the task on all of them.
Image hopefully goes as fast as it can.
Once image is over, replug in the switch to the network, allowing the clients services to see the master server, join AD, etc.
Am I overthinking? I’m stareing at a pile of 700 laptops to image, and I’d love to be able to do them 46 at a time…
@Wayne-Workman Wife requirements trumped all other things last night.
@Tom-Elliott Before @Wayne-Workman confirmed the bandwidth graph had a bug not showing the correct source, it appeared to me that the location plugin was not functioning, as even though it was assigned to location B, it kept saying the traffic was coming from Location A. I apologize if this is confusing, but I’m using the data the application is providing me to judge what could be the cause. When the data is incorrect, incorrect assumptions based on the cause are only to be expected.
@Wayne-Workman same issue here. It’s pulling from the right location, bandwidth graph doesn’t reflect this.