@george1421 So to update, I actually tore down and reinstalled Ubuntu 14 server and reinstalled fog 1.3.3

From there, I verified my Synology files

from there I used ssh and putty to remote in to my synology and ran the touch /images/.mntcheck and touch /images/dev/.mntcheck
still in the Synology terminal, I ran sudo chmod 777 -R /volume1/images

Next, I logged in to my fresh clean fog server, setup the dnsmasq since we have our own DHCP,
Here is my /etc/exports:

and here is my /etc/fstab

So after doing pretty much nothing on the fog server, just setting up dnsmasq, I went to a windows machine I have on the network and logged into the fog/management website, created a new storage node:

I then took the username and password from fog settings -> tftp settings and I used this username and password for the new storage group and the user I created on the synology drive.

I have registered and captured an image successfully and the image is being stored on our synology NAS (set to RAID 0 - ext4). I have not tested snapins yet but that is another day.

I am going to call it solved. Thank you so much for your help, I was really turned around there on the storage node settings.

@george1421 I think I fixed my issue. I wasn’t able to delete the nameserver 127.0.0.1 line but by modifying the resolv.conf.d/ head file, I was able to insert our local DNS nameserver to the top of the file. Hosts came up green after that. Now, After a whole 24hours and a reboot, all my hosts are still showing green. I have tried to boot to ip yet, is this a good fix or would this mess up dnsmasq at all?

Server

• FOG Version: 1.40
• OS: Ubuntu 16

Client

• Service Version: latest
• OS: win 10 and 7

Description

I have a working FOG setup. I can ip boot and everything, the problem I am having is with the server(Linux) being able to ping and talk to the windows PCs in my domain. From the server, I can ping any IP address but if I try and ping a host name I get: unknown host
From Windows machines, I can ping the server by IP and Hostname(added a dns entry to ping by hostname)
I have dug around looking at the resolvconf files and if I open my /etc/resolv.conf file, It is:
nameserver 127.0.0.1
Search my-domain
Nameserver my main DNS server

If I delete the first line, I am then able to ping all of the windows machines. But of course this file is overwritten every few hours so that won’t work.

I am using dnsmasq since our voip phone system uses option 66 and 67.

I am only assuming that the hosts show up as red with an exclamation because the server can’t ping the clients hostname. Is this correct? Is there something I missed? Anything I can try?

This is probably out of the scope of your issue but since I set 2 qnaps I wanted to mentioned what I did. I tried exactly what you are doing but on a synology and it was not very pretty. So I went this way with it…

1. purchased a qnap and setup the raid array giving me about 10TB of storage. (4x4TB WD Red)
2. setup virtualization station on the qnap and installed Ubuntu 16 as a virtual machine (giving the VM the entire raid array as it’s hard drive)
3. from there I just launched the Ubuntu VM and installed Fog 1.40 (haven’t updated yet)
4. once that was done I setup a second qnap nas at a second facility and repeated the above steps except I set this one up as a storage node and pointed it to the first one
5. I setup the location plugin and I have a main location (set as master) and a secondary location both in the same storage group.

I am able to boot to the network from anywhere and upload to the master and it replicates to the secondary. I am able to take snapshots of the VM as I go so if I break something I can load up a previous snapshot and get back to it.

This is as far as I have gotten so far. I have working this at my job for a couple months as a side project.

@Wayne-Workman I got it working. I must have messed up the passwords. I fixed it so the user pass matched the .fogsettings password and replication started working. Thank you.

@george1421 ok. I will try this first thing in the morning. Just to clarify, I am just trying to make sure the replication services work on the two machines I set up. This will eventually turn into a bigger multi site setup. The end result will be to have our main FOG management server at our Parkway building, and then to have different storage nodes setup at each of our precincts, North, South, East, West, and our Jail. The images for the precincts will all replicate from our Parkway server out to the 4 precincts and the images for our jail will only replicate out to the jail. Any ideas on if I am heading down the wrong path? I plan to set a location for each storage node but do I need a different storage group too?

I updated the password setting. I simply copied and pasted the password from the fog storage node to the password field on the main fog server. It still gives me Login Incorrect.

[03-07-17 8:34:54 pm] * Type: 2, File: /var/www/fog/lib/fog/fogftp.class.php, Line: 463, Message: ftp_login(): Login incorrect., Host: 172.31.161.251, Username: fog
[03-07-17 8:34:50 pm] | Image Name: Optiplex_3040_Jail
[03-07-17 8:34:50 pm] * Found Image to transfer to 1 node
[03-07-17 8:34:50 pm] * Attempting to perform Group -> Nodes image replication.
[03-07-17 8:34:50 pm] | There are no other members to sync to.
[03-07-17 8:34:50 pm] | Image Name: Optiplex_3040_Patrol
[03-07-17 8:34:50 pm] * Not syncing Image between groups
[03-07-17 8:34:50 pm] | There are no other members to sync to.
[03-07-17 8:34:50 pm] | Image Name: Optiplex_3040_Jail
[03-07-17 8:34:50 pm] * Not syncing Image between groups
[03-07-17 8:34:50 pm] * Attempting to perform Group -> Group image replication.
[03-07-17 8:34:50 pm] * We are node ID: 1. We are node name: Parkway_Storage_Node
[03-07-17 8:34:50 pm] * We are group ID: 1. We are group name: Parkway_Storage_Group
[03-07-17 8:34:50 pm] * Starting Image Replication.

Server

• FOG Version: 1.3.3
• OS: Ubuntu 14

Client

• Service Version:
• OS:

Description

I have 1 storage group and 2 storage nodes, the 1 node is the default node that was created when I installed FOG. The 2nd node is one that was created when I installed the Storage server (different IP).

I can see both storage nodes on the GUI home page. But every time the replication process starts, I get this in the log:
[03-07-17 8:04:43 pm] * Type: 2, File: /var/www/fog/lib/fog/fogftp.class.php, Line: 463, Message: ftp_login(): Login incorrect., Host: 172.31.161.251, Username: fog
[03-07-17 8:04:38 pm] | Image Name: Optiplex_3040_Jail
[03-07-17 8:04:38 pm] * Found Image to transfer to 1 node
[03-07-17 8:04:38 pm] * Attempting to perform Group -> Nodes image replication.
[03-07-17 8:04:38 pm] | There are no other members to sync to.
[03-07-17 8:04:38 pm] | Image Name: Optiplex_3040_Patrol
[03-07-17 8:04:38 pm] * Not syncing Image between groups
[03-07-17 8:04:38 pm] | There are no other members to sync to.
[03-07-17 8:04:38 pm] | Image Name: Optiplex_3040_Jail
[03-07-17 8:04:38 pm] * Not syncing Image between groups
[03-07-17 8:04:38 pm] * Attempting to perform Group -> Group image replication.
[03-07-17 8:04:38 pm] * We are node ID: 1. We are node name: Parkway_Storage_Node
[03-07-17 8:04:38 pm] * We are group ID: 1. We are group name: Parkway_Storage_Group
[03-07-17 8:04:38 pm] * Starting Image Replication.

Which Password do I need to change? where should I look? I did look in the .fogsettings file of each server and the password there is different, is this the problem?

@george1421 do you know the command to start or stop the fog image replicator service? It may very well just end up that we set the limit to 1 or 2 Mbps and then just let it run until complete, so it may never end up being an issue. Its just, until the network engineers get our new WAN speed up and running, we are stuck with a max 40Mbps between our precincts.

@Tom-Elliott does the replication happen on its own or is this something’s by that can be scheduled? If I made an image for a new desktop today at say 9am, would it immediately replicate to all the nodes or does it wait for a pre-scheduled time? I was hoping I could tell the server to start to replicate at say 11pm at night. We are a 24 hour agency and other than users on the network at night, we have all our other scheduled backups and snapshots all happening at night starting at various times.

@Tom-Elliott I figured. We are using the Synology DS916+ on amazon for about $599.99. We are putting 4 4TB WD Red drives in it built on a RAID 0 (this is going to be our storage array so we are focusing on speed and not data redundancy since the images will be replicated from our main fog server)array on ext4. It also comes with 2 NICs so we teamed them together so we have a 2Gbps connection on the network.