Posts made by Critchleyb

Hello,
I’ve just deployed a multicast task to 12 devices in my first multicast test in a live environment.

The 12 devices booted into fog fine, started the Multicast Deployment when they all joined and begun imaging the first Partition. It only took a couple of seconds, but when it switched the to 500GB main partition, 5 of the 12 Machines did not start deploying and instead are just sat on a blank partclone screen. The 7 Remaining Devices carried on with deployment.

Advice on steps to fix this appreciated!

I’m on Debian 9 Fog Version 1.5.5 imaging from a portable laptop using DNSMasq.

@Sebastian-Roth It seems to work. I do get a single line of “This is not the Master Node” on reboot but then it jumps back to no new tasks, see Below:

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[11-30-18 2:42:30 pm] Interface Ready with IP Address: 127.0.0.1
[11-30-18 2:42:30 pm] Interface Ready with IP Address: 127.0.1.1
[11-30-18 2:42:30 pm] * Starting MulticastManager Service
[11-30-18 2:42:30 pm] * Checking for new items every 10 seconds
[11-30-18 2:42:30 pm] * Starting service loop
[11-30-18 2:42:30 pm] | This is not the master node
[11-30-18 2:42:40 pm] * No new tasks found

@Sebastian-Roth I restarted the server and can confirm that I’m having the same issue as brnnrc.

I’m using Version 1.5.5 on Debian 9.

I’ll have a look at implementing the fix you suggested there so that I don’t need to restart the service on startup each time.

Thanks,

Reading your conversation through to understand a little more which services multicast uses was helpful. I was able to just restart the “FOGMulticastManager” service and the deployment started successfully.

Hi,

I’m attempting to test Multicast in a lab environment. I followed the steps on https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Multicasting#Device_Configurations to test Multicast and they all transfer successfully.

However when I try to Start a Multicast Deployment from the GUI, the UDP service does not start and the PC’s just boot into partclone and don’t show a progress bar.

This is the command im using to check UDP

ps ax | grep udp
5386 pts/0 S+ 0:00 grep udp

In the multicast.log, nothing logs when i try to start a session, however “This is not the master node” is repeated every 10 seconds

The setup has only a single storage group which is checked as the master.

Advice appreciated!

@Sebastian-Roth Yes, its working perfectly now, Thanks!

@george1421 Scratch that, i forgot to take out the < > symbols, derp…

@george1421 Hey, Thanks for that.

I’m unfortunately getting an error when I try and start the dnsmasq service with an error on line 38:

dnsmasq: bad dhcp-range at Line 38 of /etc/dnsmasq.d/ltsp.conf

@george1421 Hey, Is there anywhere I can find some documentation on how to implement DNSmasq? I’ve not heard of it before and the aim is to not have to change any of the sites current services, like dhcp etc. Is DNSmasq capable of pointing network booting at the server without editing any dhcp options on the router where it will be running?

@Sebastian-Roth Thanks! I’ll give it a try. I see it mentions DHCP, however I’m not using fog to run DHCP, will there be any issues there?

I’ve also found the documentation on changing fogs IP here: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Change_FOG_Server_IP_Address

Hopefully between them I should be good to go!

Hello,

I’m trying to Create a Portable FOG server on a laptop that I plan to send around to different areas of the business to deploy a new image to each of them.

Each Site uses a different scope of internal IP. I saw that when I was setting up the server, it asked me which IP it would be using. So if I were to allow the servers IP to be determined by DHCP, are there settings on the server itself that would need to be changed in order for the server to work.

I’m aware that the DHCP Options would need to be pointed at whatever the servers assigned IP is, but i doubt its going to be as simple as just changing those settings.

Thanks!

Found the problem! Hurrah!

Managed to find this page on other DHCP Settings for routers which listed instructions for Cisco: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Other_DHCP_Configurations

We initially used:

Option 66 [Server IP]
Option 67 ascii undionly.kpxe

What actually worked

next-server <Server IP>
bootfile undionly.kpxe

Thanks for the help @Sebastian-Roth @george1421

@george1421

Using that command i can see entries for the following that look like they match:

udp        0      0 0.0.0.0:69              0.0.0.0:*
udp6       0      0 :::69                   :::*

@Sebastian-Roth

root@fog-server:/# ps aux | grep tftp
root     12019  0.0  0.0   4724   780 pts/0    S+   09:09   0:00 grep tftp
root     26270  0.0  0.0   2820   952 ?        Ss   Nov21   0:00 /usr/sbin/in.tftpd --listen --user root --address :69 -s /tftpboot

This is what i get from your command.

It looks like the server is running, but cant be contacted when i’m booting through PXE?

@Sebastian-Roth I’ll check first thing tomorrow morning when i’m back in the office and let you know.

Hi,

Yes I’ve been working through what I can understand.

using tftp -i [ip] get undionly.kpxe on the host returns the packet succesfully when the firewall is disabled. But not when it is enabled.

FTP_Username and FTP_Password are set to the fog user that was created during setup

I’ve disabled the Debian firewall and confirmed the output is:
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

and set the permissions using: chmod -R 777 /tftpboot

Hello,

I’m very new to Linux but i’m attempting to set up a portable FOG Server on Debian 9.

I’ve followed the config video for Debian 8 and didn’t notice any major differences. However after the FOG Server installation is complete the Hosts receive a TFTP Open Timeout Error.

I am using a Cisco 4331 Router for DHCP, and have configured option 66 as the Fog Server IP & Option 67 as ascii undionly.kpxe

Firewall is disabled and permissions to folder are set to 777.

Help would be appreciated!