Posts made by Deastrom

I’ve been noticing that docker is picking up in popularity. Are there any plans for an official FOG docker image?

[‎1/‎26/‎2016 2:20 PM]
Ok
getmac didn’t work
I did that already
[‎1/‎26/‎2016 2:21 PM]
and netsh interface show interface gave me null response

Is what i get from my colleague at the computer. Good to know that this can cause the issue though and that it’s not the server itself. Going to suggest a hardware upgrade and get that going. Thank you.

Re: MAC IS null! only 0 mac address was found

I’m having a similar problem, but it’s only happening on one computer. I have nearly 20 other computers set up on this server and they’re working fine.

My theory is (this is a Gateway E6610D super old) that the drivers are bad, there are a couple of system items in device manager that don’t have drivers on them. So I’m asking, can screwed up drivers cause this problem?

Is CIFS supported in 1.2.0 though?

Do you have an example of what the storage node in the web interface would look like for a SMB storage node?

Is there a variable in the code or a setting in a file that would allow the clients to mount /images/ directly from the storage array?

It hasn’t been explained to me why our current situation is such a pain for the storage array administrator, but he’s expressed a strong desire to get it mapped onto the FOG server as an NFS or Samba share. Unfortunately neither of those can be re-exported out to the Client boot images. We went the virtual OS and storage array solution for redundancy and growth. And it is our standard practice for the rest of our servers. ((they’re still pretty hurt that it’s not a windows server))

Tried a Samba/Cifs share as well and it still acted the same way as the re-export did. A thought that I just had was if the Client computer mounted the storage array’s nfs export directly. I don’t see a setting for that out-right in the fog settings though, and it’d require the nfs to be wide open on our network.

This is a past deployment and we have since attached the share to the esxi host so that the FOG OS would see it as a physical drive. But the server team doesn’t want to keep it this way and would like it to be like their other shares which are not filled with vmdk files. So we are in a working state, but I’d like to know what others have done about this problem.

My FOG version is 1.2.0. I have my main operating system virtualized with 40 gb of storage. I am being provided an NFS share of 4 TB for my images. When I try to mount it to my /images/ folder i get an error on my client computers saying they can’t mount /images/. Further research tells me that what I’m trying to do is an NFS re-export which is impossible. Do you have any work arounds to this?

i have a task that I want to run every quarter. This would be */4 which implies the following set {0,4,8} which means it only runs 3x a year, so it really should be */3 which implies {0,3,6,9} so we get 4x a year. Unfortunately this task will need to be cascaded among a lot of different computers and I’d like to space them out over the quarters. So if this is correct then I should be able to put something like (wild+1)/3 which should imply {1,4,7,10}; (wild+2)/3 => {2,5,8,12}. ((the wilds were put in cuz * caused auto formatting))

To test this theory I’ve been playing with the Hours section and watching when the task activates and this does not work for (*+1)/2 which should flag the task every odd hour.

I know I can do this kind of thing with a list and maybe I should, but I was wondering if there is a more elegant way to state this in the fields?

@Wayne-Workman Now you have me worried… I installed debian 8 because ubuntu server kept want to hang mysql on my production server. So I went for debian because it has been said over and over that it’s more dependable, especially with FOG. I haven’t tested uploading or whether it works with FogClient yet. I’ve only testing PXE and Reporting (the services problem was indicated by no reporting). I’ll be sure to continue testing, what issues should I be on the look out for. (this is for my FOG as DRS implementation that i’ve been working on)

Ended up having to make a script that read as;

/opt/fog/service/FOGImageReplicator/FOGImageReplicator &
/opt/fog/service/FOGMulticastManager/FOGMulticastManager &
/opt/fog/service/FOGTaskScheduler/FOGTaskScheduler &

Then creating running crontab -e as root and creating the following

@reboot sleep 120 && /script/StartFogServices.sh

I don’t know why, but if I try services FOGScheduler restart inside of crontab -e it just says that the service is not found.

It only seems to behave this way when the program first tries to run. It doesn’t matter which service I try to start first, this error comes up. When I ctrl+c out and rerun the command, it does fine. So I initialized them manually using ‘&’ to throw them in the back ground. They are logging correctly when I do this. What can I do to get this fixed? This is a new production server and I’d rather not have to do a work around.

Line 347 in FOGCore.class.php reads

if (filesize($path) > LOGMAXSIZE) unlink($path);

FOG version 1.2.0

When trying to start the service manually I get

PHP Warning:  filesize(): stat failed for /opt/fog/log/m
ulticast.log in /var/www/fog/lib/fog/FOGCore.class.php on line 347

This is on a fresh debian-8.0.0-amd64 install.

The storage is an Oracle storage array of some sort that will most likely be attached to the FOG server as a NFS. I will be pushing for some Storage nodes, but mainly in a couple of remote locations. Still haven’t really found a way to get the dashboard items on the webgui to see the storage nodes. But since that’s cosmetic and the storage nodes work great regardless, I may wait to see what 1.3 brings to the table before focusing on that issue.

Also, scheduling will be important. I’ll be asking my customers for a frequency for their computer uploads and a window then mapping that on a calendar. I expect to hear something along the lines of ‘once a month’, ‘once a quarter’, ‘twice a month’, etc… and windows of weekend evenings being the most restrictive and others being just off duty hours. Not everyone is running 24 hour production, so bandwidth shouldn’t be much of an issue.

@VincentJ That would be something I’m checking as we register each computer. Most of my oddballs have been testing and only a few were limited by bios and others by ram (128mb is not enough).

Figured it out.

goto ${username} || goto MENU

:fogUser
menu
item --gap -- ---------------- Welcome fogUser ----------------
item return        return to previous menu
item kav        Kaspersky Antivirus
choose --default return target && goto ${target}

:fogTech
item --gap -- ---------------- Welcome fogTech ----------------
item return        return to previous menu
item Clonezilla        Clonezilla ISO
item UBCD        Ultimate Boot CD
item Hirens        Hiren's Boot CD
item kav        Kaspersky Antivirus
choose --default return target && goto ${target}

:MENU
menu
item --gap -- ---------------- iPXE boot menu ----------------
item return        return to previous menu
choose --default return target && goto ${target}

Then just define the functions below the menu. fogTech and fogUser being different users that the menu accounts for and MENU being the default menu.

This was made apparent after looking at the advanced.php code presented here https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Advanced_Boot_Menu_Configuration_options

Access to this menu can be granted without granting that user rights to the website by clicking the “Mobile/Quick Image Access Only?” toggle when creating the user.

To clarify, this would be in the PXE boot Advanced Menu. I was hoping that there’d be a variable for username and I might be able to include if then statements in the ipxe code for the advanced menu.