Posts made by Chris Whiteley

Chris Whiteley

I would love to chat with you and get help on this. I am not so savvy with too much being in the weeds of linux/database stuff, but I would certainly love to know how to do this. Any time you have I am more than willing to sit and chat.

Thank you!

Chris Whiteley

Developers and fellow ridiculously smart people,

I am trying to find a way to be able to create a question within the “Full Host Registration” to be able to ask what OU I would like to put it in, so this question has 2 parts to it.

Can there be an option to create the option to choose an OU like you do an image or Snapin?
Can we export some sort of data from our active directory that would populate the Database in FOG so that when using the ? feature, it would bring up our OU’s and fill the “Orginizational Unit (Blank for Default)” slot for the Host?

I know this is a lot to ask for, but I am always looking for a way to save myself some time and this would be a HUGE time saver.

Thanks,

Chris Whiteley

Thank you That worked great!

Chris Whiteley

I actually have both and was planning to use PDQ Deploy to push it out with a dynamic collection that I use from PDQ Inventory. I am working on that as we speak. I just didn’t know how to get FOG to allow the client in the system.

Thank you!

Chris Whiteley

Hey All,

I was wondering if anyone has had this same though before or not…I was wondering if it is possible to install the FOG client on all the machines I have, and then have FOG pull the computer information and create the host with all necessary data and then I can just add them to a group to do the finishing touches. I would love to not have to hand touch almost 800 machines…

Thanks!

Chris Whiteley

@tom-elliott I am not quite sure what was wrong. I was working with someone else here on the forums on trying to do the automation and he had me run a script on mysql which ended up messing up a few things (accident). I was trying to work with the persistent groups piece. I ended up having to do a restore of the FOG server and that’s when the issues happened. I think I just had some duplicate entries somehow once I did the restore.

I look forward to a new GUI layout! You guys are rock stars!

Chris Whiteley

@wayne-workman This fixed it! Thank you!

Chris Whiteley

@tom-elliott There are no pending macs in the “Pending Mac List”. There is an issue where this one machine has multiple mac addresses assigned to it and I can’t see them anywhere.

Chris Whiteley

So I maybe didn’t word this correctly. In FOG I show only one Mac Address for this host. When FOG checks in on the client machine, it shows 3 Mac addresses. I need to find out where these 2 extras are in the database and delete them.

Chris Whiteley

Hey All,

I am having an issue where one of my clients has too many mac addresses, yet I can’t see them in the FOG anywhere. I am looking for a command in mysql to delete mac addresses from a particular host. I am on version 1.4.4.

I would be grateful for any help someone could provide!

Thanks,

Chris Whiteley

Thanks for your help! I will try the wondershare tool to see if I can limit it.

Chris Whiteley

Hey All,

I know that in FOG you can limit the amount of sessions you have going simultaneously, but I curious if there is a way that regardless of the clients you have (50 or 2), it will only ever push half of a 1 Gbps link during download or upload? I have a site that is across a 1Gbps link and all internet traffic and phone traffic goes across it as well. I want to at most limit that to 500Mbps if possible. Any help would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Chris Whiteley

Thank you both for the replies! I would love to edit the fog.menu.reg to automatically select the snapin and not even ask the user about it. What would I do to make that happen? It is currently snapin ID = 3.

#!/bin/bash
. /usr/share/fog/lib/funcs.sh
clearScreen
displayBanner
disks=""
disk=""
hd=""
getHardDisk
sysman=""
sysman64=""
sysproduct=""
sysproduct64=""
sysversion=""
sysversion64=""
sysserial=""
systype=""
biosversion=""
biosvendor=""
biosdate=""
mbman=""
mbproductname=""
mbversion=""
mbserial=""
mbasset=""
cpuman=""
cpuversion=""
cpucurrent=""
cpumax=""
mem=""
hdinfo=""
caseman=""
casever=""
caseserial=""
casesasset=""
sysserial64=""
systype64=""
biosversion64=""
biosvendor64=""
biosdate64=""
mbman64=""
mbproductname64=""
mbversion64=""
mbserial64=""
mbasset64=""
cpuman64=""
cpuversion64=""
cpucurrent64=""
cpumax64=""
mem64=""
hdinfo64=""
caseman64=""
casever64=""
caseserial64=""
casesasset64=""
dots "Using disk device"
echo $hd
echo " * Starting host registration"
mac=$(getMACAddresses | base64)
exists=$(curl -ks --data "mac=$mac" http://${web}service/man.hostexists.php 2>/dev/null)
checkAndSet() {
    local testvar="$1"
    local onlynum="$2"
    [[ -z $testvar ]] && return
    if [[ $onlynum =~ [Tt][Rr][Uu][Ee] && $testvar =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]]; then
        echo $testvar | base64
    elif [[ $testvar =~ ^[0-9,]+$ ]]; then
        echo $testvar | base64
    else
        return
    fi
}
setIDs() {
    local varVar="$1"
    local str="$2"
    local csvstyle="$3"
    local dummy="$4"
    local max="$5"
    local res=""
    local url=""
    local oIFS=$IFS
    local line=""
    while [[ -z ${!varVar} ]]; do
        [[ $csvstyle =~ [Tt][Rr][Uu][Ee] ]] && echo -n "    Enter the $str IDs separated with , to associate with computer (? for listing): " || echo -n "    Enter the $str ID to associate with computer (? for listing): "
        read dummy
        dummy=$(echo $dummy | sed -e 's/^,//' -e 's/,$//')
        case $dummy in
            [?])
                url="http://${web}service/${str}listing.php"
                clearScreen
                res=$(echo -e $(curl -ks $url 2>/dev/null))
                i=0
                IFS=$'\n'
                for line in $res; do
                    let i+=1
                    echo $line
                    if [[ $i -eq $max ]]; then
                        [[ $csvstyle =~ [Tt][Rr][Uu][Ee] ]] && echo -n "    Press [Enter] to proceed or enter the $str IDs separated with , to associate with computer: " || echo -n "    Press [Enter] to proceed or enter the $str ID to associate with computer: "
                        read dummy
                        case $dummy in
                            [?]|"")
                                i=0
                                clearScreen
                                continue
                                ;;
                        esac
                        case $csvstyle in
                            [Tt][Rr][Uu][Ee])
                                [[ $dummy =~ ^[0-9,]+$ ]] && printf -v "$varVar" $(checkAndSet $dummy) || setIDs "$varVar" "$str" "$csvstyle" "$dummy" "$max"
                                break
                                ;;
                            *)
                                [[ $dummy =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && printf -v "$varVar" $(checkAndSet $dummy "true") || setIDs "$varVar" "$str" "$csvstyle" "$dummy" "$max"
                                break
                                ;;
                        esac
                        i=0
                        dummy=$(echo $dummy | sed -e 's/^,//' -e 's/,$//')
                        clearScreen
                    fi
                done
                ;;
            ""|0)
                printf -v "$varVar" 0
                ;;
            *)
                dummy=$(echo $dummy | sed -e 's/^,//' -e 's/,$//')
                [[ -z $dummy ]] && setIDs "$varVar" "$str" "$csvstyle" "$dummy" "$max"
                case $csvstyle in
                    [Tt][Rr][Uu][Ee])
                        [[ $dummy =~ ^[0-9,]+$ ]] && printf -v "$varVar" $(checkAndSet $dummy) || setIDs "$varVar" "$str" "$csvstyle" "$dummy" "$max"
                        ;;
                    *)
                        [[ $dummy =~ ^[0-9]+$ ]] && printf -v "$varVar" $(checkAndSet $dummy "true") || setIDs "$varVar" "$str" "$csvstyle" "$dummy" "$max"
                        ;;
                esac
                ;;
        esac
    done
    IFS=$oIFS
}
[[ $exists != "#!ok" ]] && handleError "Unable to register host: $exists ($0)\n   Args Passed: $*"
host=""
ip=""
productKey=""
imageid=""
primaryuser=""
other1=""
other2=""
blImage=""
blDoAddGroup=""
blDoAddSnapin=""
keyEnter=""
blDoAD=""
res=""
while [[ $res != "#!ok" ]]; do
    echo -n " * Enter hostname for this computer: "
    read host
    if [[ ${#host} -gt 15 ]]; then
        host=${host:0:15}
        echo " | Truncated to 15 characters: $host"
        usleep 2000000
    fi
    host=$(echo $host | base64)
    res=$(curl -ks --data "host=$host" http://${web}service/hostnameloop.php 2>/dev/null)
    [[ $res != "#!ok" ]] && echo "$res"
done
imageid=""
setIDs "imageid" "image" "" "" 20
if [[ $(curl -ks http://${web}service/locationcheck.php 2>/dev/null) == "##" ]]; then
    while [[ -z $askme ]]; do
        echo -n "    Would you like to assign a location for this host? (y/N) "
        read askme
        case $askme in
            [Nn]|[Nn][Oo]|"")
                askme="N"
                ;;
            [Yy]|[Yy][Ee][Ss])
                setIDs "locationid" "location" "" "" 20
                location64=$locationid
                ;;
            *)
                askme=""
                echo " * Invalid input, please try again"
                ;;
        esac
    done
fi
askme=""
while [[ -z $askme ]]; do
    echo -n "    Would you like to associate this host with groups? (y/N) "
    read askme
    case $askme in
        [Nn]|[Nn][Oo]|"")
            askme="N"
            ;;
        [Yy]|[Yy][Ee][Ss])
            setIDs "groupid" "group" "true" "" 20
            group64=$groupid
            ;;
        *)
            askme=""
            echo " * Invalid input, please try again"
            ;;
    esac
done
askme=""
while [[ -z $askme ]]; do
    echo -n "    Would you like to associate this host with snapins? (y/N) "
    read askme
    case $askme in
        [Nn]|[Nn][Oo]|"")
            askme="N"
            ;;
        [Yy]|[Yy][Ee][Ss])
            setIDs "snapinid" "snapin" "true" "" 20
            snapin64=$snapinid
            ;;
        *)
            askme=""
            echo " * Invalid input, please try again"
            ;;
    esac
done
askme=""
while [[ -z $askme ]]; do
    echo -n "    Would you like to associate a product key to this host? (y/N) "
    read askme
    case $askme in
        [Nn]|[Nn][Oo]|"")
            askme="N"
            ;;
        [Yy]|[Yy][Ee][Ss])
            echo -n " * Enter the product key for this computer: "
            read productKey
            productKey=$(echo $productKey | base64)
            ;;
        *)
            askme=""
            echo " * Invalid input, please try again"
            ;;
    esac
done
askme=""
while [[ -z $askme ]]; do
    echo -n "    Would you like this host to join a domain, (using default settings)? (y/N) "
    read askme
    case $askme in
        [Nn]|[Nn][Oo]|"")
            askme="N"
            ;;
        [Yy]|[Yy][Ee][Ss])
            blDoAD=$(echo -n 1 | base64)
            askme="Y"
            ;;
        *)
            askme=""
            echo " * Invalid input, please try again"
            ;;
    esac
done
askme=""
while [[ -z $askme ]]; do
    echo -n "    Would you like to deploy image to this computer now? (y/N) "
    read askme
    case $askme in
        [Nn]|[Nn][Oo]|"")
            askme="N"
            ;;
        [Yy]|[Yy][Ee][Ss])
            tmp=""
            ret=""
            retry=3
            while [[ $ret != "#!ok" && ! $retry -eq 0 ]]; do
                echo " * Enter FOG GUI Username and Password"
                echo -n "    Username: "
                read username
                echo -n "    Password: "
                read -s password
                user64=$(echo $username | tr -d '\012' | base64)
                pass64=$(echo $password | tr -d '\012' | base64)
                ret=$(curl -ks --data "mac=$mac&username=$user64&password=$pass64" http://${web}service/checkcredentials.php 2>/dev/null)
                case $ret in
                    '#!ok')
                        echo
                        echo " * This host will reboot and deployment will start!"
                        ret=$tmp
                        realdoimage=$(echo -n 1 | base64)
                        break
                        ;;
                    '#!il')
                        echo
                        echo " * Error: Invalid Login! ($retry remaining)"
                        let retry-=1
                        ;;
                esac
            done
            askme="Y"
            ;;
        *)
            askme=""
            echo " * Invalid input, please try again"
            ;;
    esac
done
dots "Attempting to register host"
res=""
while [[ -z $res ]]; do
    res=$(curl -ks --data "mac=$mac&advanced=$(echo -n 1 | base64)&host=$host&imageid=$imageid$realdoimage&doad=$blDoAD&location=$location64&username=$user64&groupid=$group64&snapinid=$snapin64&productKey=$productKey" http://${web}service/auto.register.php 2>/dev/null)
    echo "$res"
    usleep 2000000
done
. /bin/fog.inventory
usleep 2000000```

Chris Whiteley

Hey All,

I was wondering if there is a way to automatically add a snapin to every computer that registers with the FOG server and needs to be joined to the domain? I know that is very specific, but there are cases where we have machines that don’t need to be joined to the domain and don’t need the snapin software.

Any help would be much appreicated!

Thanks,

Chris Whiteley

Hello All,

I am trying to get FOG imaging working with PDQ deploy and I can’t seem to figure out what I need to do to make it work. I have an image all setup and I have it join to our domain, but when it comes to running a powershell script to start a baseline package from PDQ deploy, I can’t seem to figure it out. I have tired multiple websites to figure out the answer and even the youtube video that PDQ deploy did, but the problem is that they didn’t really give any instruction, they just told what it did. Since I am pretty new to powershell I would love to get some help on how to make this work. These are the sites I looked at. Maybe someone can explain it better for me? We are using FOG 1.4.4 and PDQ Deploy version 15 release 4 (Paid version). We also have PDQ inventory (Paid).

https://www.pdq.com/blog/automating-software-installs-for-imaged-computers/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxwUC-fOJU

Thanks!

Chris Whiteley

I am trying to image my Dell Precision T3620 that has an Intel Rapid Storage Controller 12.0 and it will not even image. It just goes quickly through the imaging screen and says it will reboot in a second. I tried to do a hardware compatibility and it says that it has an error when seeing /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. Anyone run into this?

Chris Whiteley

thanks a bunch, I actually used what you did there hostimage=#; and just entered all numbers but the ones we were using and that cleaned it up. Thanks!

Chris Whiteley

So apparently there is a hostImage attached to them but it doesn’t exist anymore. Is there a way to find out what a particular host has as its hostImage?

Chris Whiteley

I was wondering if there would be a command in mysql that would delete hosts if they have no image assigned to them? I am trying to clean up old machines and that is the easiest way to do it. Thanks,

Chris Whiteley

Or here was another thought…

Maybe we can set the “Join to group” option so that when a particular new machine gets joined to a group, it automatically pulls down the group settings for that group. (IE AD OU stuff)?