Posts made by CoxM

@tom-elliott Excellent, thanks for your time.

@gn_ro Excellent thanks, where would I confirm the setting for auto imaging?
really appreciate your help.

@gn_ro Hi,

Thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately I need to free up some disk space without reimaging a load of PCs that are using an old image so I have to delete with it deployed to the hosts. As long as it wont trigger a reimage or stop them working then I will have to go for it.
The alternative is to expand the drive its on but really dont want to do that as it adds a load of headache to the process.

Hi All,

I want to delete a couple of older images but we still have some machines that are imaged using it and have it assigned to them in host management.

If I delete the image and assign the host a new image will it auto image? I wouldn’t want it to, just to use the new one next time it’s asked to image.

thanks,

matt

Hi All,

I am getting a tftp timeout when I try to image a couple of our Dell Optiplex PCs. If I do Lenovo computers then they work fine.
I have been through BIOS and confirmed settings.

Any suggestions as to what the problem might be would be super helpful, not sure where to go on this one.

Thanks.

Hi All,

In the past couple of weeks I have been getting the odd strangeness where we will see a machine have the same MAC as another causing, in the case if an image deploy, one to image and one to constantly reboot looking for the waiting tasks that’s never there as it’s alredy running.

Upon investgiation, I think it is down the MAC found on the image vs the mac of the actual PC being imaged.

Pending MAC’s is not something I have ever really looked at before, perhaps I should have, but how am I best to get out of the problems I am having? I have got many, if not all, hosts listed in pending MAC list so ideally need a way to ensure that the primary MAC is that of the base unit, not the source image machine.

Also be good to know how to stop it happening going forward.

Sorry if that a bit confused, never dealt with MC issues on FOG before

Thanks All.

@Hanz Amazing, thank you! worked a treat.

@CoxM To Add - I fully appreciate the time and effort put into FOG, I’m not chasing up, just asking where it’s at.

Hi,
Sorry to dig this up again but any more news on this feature being rolled out or 1.6 as a whole?
Thanks all.

@george1421 Perfect, thanks.

Hi All,

We have a couple of old images that are still in use on a few machines.

Its going to be a while before I can reimage those PC’s with the newer image, in the meantime am I OK to delete the image from Fog and the associated image data files? Will PC’s that are assigned that image in Fog be OK?

Thanks.

@Sebastian-Roth Hi, We are currently running most recent version on all nodes and the master server.

I think I have checked the user/pw in all locations on both servers, could you confirm all locations to check please?

Thanks.

This has moved on slightly, but still not quite working.

Looks like my previous issue was running mixed versions.

I now get the following error within the main fog server replication log -

[07-03-19 5:16:28 pm] * Type: 2, File: /var/www/fog/lib/fog/fogftp.class.php, Line: 464, Message: ftp_login(): Login incorrect., Host: 192.168.210.166, Username: fog

This image shows that file and line, its the line with the cursor on it.

Hi All,

I have just added a storage node which I built in one office and moved to a remote site today. The IP ranges are different so I allowed the node to get DHCP address when on the remote network, made that static and then adjusted the fog settings accordingly.

So far I have the node added, it is reporting disk usage on the fog dashboard but when looking in log viewer I get “invalid IP” for all log options on the node and “unauthorized” when looking at kernal version.

I have so far re-run the installer, checked the .fogsettings and the config.class.php and all seem correct. I have also updated the node settings in the web UI and even deleted and recreated the node.

Any help would be great.
Thanks.

Hi All,
Is it possible, using host location setting or group membership, to set the location and keyboard language on a client post image deployment?
Thanks,
Matt.

Thanks @Sebastian-Roth

Hi All,

I have a couple of physical machines that are going to be used as storage nodes on two separate remote sites it handle image deployment across their local networks rather than over a VPN to my office.
Can anyone confirm all locations where I will need to change IP and related network details once moved? They will have to be built on a different IP range with different gateway etc than they will run on the remote sites.

Hope that makes sense.

Thanks,

Matt.

@WalterT
Sounds to me like you haven’t really put the time and effort (as you put it yourself!) into reading the documentation and understanding how to install, configure and use FOG.
I have worked in schools and corporate environments and assure you it is more than capable of providing imaging services in both scenarios.
I’m still a beginner really but have managed to overcome any issues I had, most of which were of my own making, but reading and reaching out to the excellent community of users and devs.

Strongly recommend you revisit, following all applicable documentation.

@Sebastian-Roth It had reset the user to ‘root’ and the password blank. I have run the ALTER USER commands previously so perhaps that did it.

Once I had manually entered the correct username “fogstorage” and the password, which I still had from the working node, I was up and running.

Thanks,

Matt.

@Sebastian-Roth Thanks for all your help.

The issues turned out to be the mysql credentials held in the config.class.php file. They had been reset and needed the correct details manually adding. Once that was done all worked fine.

Thanks again,
Matt.