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Posts made by chad-bisd
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RE: [SOLVED]Fatal Error : Failed to mount NFS Volume
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RE: FOG::GUIWatcher Message found, attempting to notify GUI! + FOG::GUIWatcher Dispatch Failed! forever
What version of Windows, FOG, and the FOG client service are you using?
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RE: New FOG server will not start the image upload
If you are getting a problem detecting the OS type, it’s on the client at this point. This appears to be a Linux based client that you are trying to upload. Is that correct?
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RE: In need of a working Kernel
Tom Elliot has posted a generic “everything networking” kernel in several of his posts. Also, if you post the specs, such as video and LAN chipsets, we might be better able to help.
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RE: New FOG server will not start the image upload
I think the correct location is actually /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/
My FOG server is slightly modified so my stuff is in a different directory. Check there.
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RE: Having issues with Win 7 x64
What image type are you specifying for your 64bit images? Are you doing single partition resizable, or multiple partition-single disk, or something else?
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RE: New FOG server will not start the image upload
Go into your host record and make sure it has an OS type set for it.
If that doesn’t working, killing the task in the FOG webUI, and make sure the task file was deleted from the /tftpboot/ folder, usually named 01-mac-address-of-host.
Then try to schedule a new upload task.
Also, watch out for the TFTPD-HPA problem on Ubuntu 12.04. The service starts before the interface has an IP bound to it, and doesn’t function, but doesn’t report it’s down. You can temp. resolve it by restarting tftpd-hpa service, and a long term fix is to edit the startup job to wait.
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RE: FOG server on multiple IPs on multiple VLANs
I believe I moved this thread because it’s not a FOG problem per se, but more of a general networking/os configuration issue.
I think the easiest thing for you to do is to make multiple FOG servers. Leave your first FOG server as the (M)ain server and install a FOG server in (S)torage mode for each VLAN. Make a storage group for each VLAN, and make a storage node in the storage group for each VLAN.
In other words, if you have 5 different VLAN’s/Subnets you want to multicast with FOG, you’ll have 6 servers. The main server, and a storage node in each VLAN. You’ll store the image for each subnet on the storage node in the storage group for that subnet.
I have a similar setup, but I have multiple storage groups setup, and each storage group has one storage node in it. I do this so I can unicast a group while uploading another image, or unicast to multiple groups without slowing the system down. I’m thinking you could do something similar, but with the intent to be multicast.
Since you are multicasting, you don’t need much of a machine, it could even be a VM. Multicasting requires more memory on the server than unicasting does, but unicasting requires a better disk subsystem.
I’ll be happy to advise on how to set this up if you want, or you can continue trying to setup and configure the way you originally asked about.
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RE: Truncate hostname
In FOG 0.33, the host no longer has an OS. The OS is tied to the image.
I have modified the script in the init.gz to truncate to 15 characters and warn if truncation was necessary. I still have not modified the webUI to limit the field in html, or to truncate the value in the processing of the form data.
I agree this would be nice, and for the most part, I never need over 15 characters. Maybe this could be configurable through the FOG settings for a max host name length in case there was some need to have it longer than 15. There is a limit due to the field size in the datastore also, but that can be queried to make sure the UI or registration scripts are not exceeding that.
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TCEA - Systems Administration and Technical Support Conf.
Is anyone on here from Texas and planning on attending this conference coming up in October? It would be nice to meet up with some fellow FOG users in person.
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RE: Unicast is slow or freezes, Multicast is fine.
There is not really any maintenance to perform on the FOG specific portions of the server. You should however be doing operating system and package updates as needed.
Are you still imaging the same computers today that you were a year ago? I’m thinking if you are trying to image newer machines, you may need a kernel update for the clients.
And as always, have you tried rebooting the server to see if that clears anything up?
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RE: FEDORA 19 <- MYSQL is no more MARIADB is now in place.
Can we modify the install scripts to check for mysql and php packages, and failover to the mariadb and mysqlnd packages, and failover to an error message/prompt for package name/quit afterwards? What are your thoughts on handling changing package names as new OS releases come out?
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RE: Error Installing Fog - FOG Multicast Management Server Failed
If you use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, then watch out for the tftp-hpa problem you get after rebooting where the tftpd-hpa tries to start before any interfaces have IP addresses bound to them. Many posts on this forum about this issue and how to work around it.
Also make sure whatever OS you choose, then you do a full update after the install of the OS and before you try to install FOG, just so you don’t get anything wierd from an outdated package.
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RE: Web interface slow navigating and gray screen - fog 0.32
Try a different kernel. Probably a driver issue in the bzImage kernel. You can update kernels using the FOG Web UI, or you can download and replace them manually in the /tftpboot/fog/kernel/ folder.
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RE: Error Installing Fog - FOG Multicast Management Server Failed
If you are getting permission denied as root, even when using sudo, then there is something else wrong and not really a FOG problem. I don’t know where to go from here…
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RE: Error Installing Fog - FOG Multicast Management Server Failed
I updated my previous posts to include the sudo part just to clear up any confusion.
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RE: FOG Status
An another note, I would like to stay with php because the developer base is there already. I would prefer however if the FOG web UI was a templated system with caching, rather than a mixed code/presentation system.
I’ve worked with a few php based systems that have great templating/caching setups that make it really easy to make logic/process changes without affecting the UI, and vice vera.
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RE: FOG Status
Best thing about Linux is price to performance. No UI means better performance. Webmin if you need it. Free OS, Free tools, Free database. No expensive OS requiring CAL’s with a DBMS requiring CAL’s with a management tool that has to be purchased on top of that. Plus, I’ve used microsoft’s management tools in the past, they market great, and fail to deliver on their promises without weeks of training and years of experience and a support contract so you can call them when you just can’t figure things out.
FOG needs to stay accessible to the masses that have little to no budget for imaging. If we can make headway into the market where people have million dollar budgets, that’s an added bonus.
And there is no enterprise support team for FOG.
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RE: [MOD] Sort group members by hostname - 0.32, Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Thanks. I could not find a reason to query for all fields in the table (*) when only the gmHostID was ever being used. In all the calls to the function I could never see where other fields were being used out of the result set. Since I didn’t want to mess something up I didn’t know about, I made a new function and changed the call in the specific page.
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RE: Error Installing Fog - FOG Multicast Management Server Failed
If you look at the “status” option in the /etc/init.d/FOGMulticastManager script, you’ll see the command it’s using to check the status when you call it using:
[CODE]sudo service FOGMulticastManager status[/CODE].Looks to be
[CODE]sudo status FOGMulticastManager[/CODE]What do those commands give you?