Posts made by djm79

Did you set the PXE boot options in the DHCP ? I had an issue like this at a remote site were I put in one IP address for boot server and its IP was not set to a static address and it got rebooted and pulled another IP which caused the other computer to stop PXE booting.

Yes I have been reading up on the fog client and issues with Win 7 and Vista needing a try application to produce GUI pop up messages. But C# is beyond my skill levels at the moment. I’m trying to learn as I really want to redesign the snapin to pull from local storage.

Yea chad-bisd idea sounds like and easy plan that will tell you if its fog or not but I would almost be willing to beat that its a switch of NIC causing all this crazy speeds issues. Are your switches managed or unmanaged? Or you could try a another kind of switch to see if its that model if you don’t have the means to setup a live CD test, I would try another switch and see if the speed works out.

I had something just like this not even two weeks ago. I ended up running tests from various switches moving further out from the Fog server until I found the offender. It ended up being a access layer switch that someone (cough my boss) went cheap ass on and didn’t buy a GBIC gig adapter for the uplink. So everywhere else had gig uplinks but the access switch for our floor was being jammed into a 10/100 port. Long story short I jumped a gig uplink port from our distro to the setup room to a cheap gig Dlink switch for imaging and bam 2.5 gigs on average. Takes about 5 min to drop a 14 gig image to a computer and as soon as I work out snapins I’ll shave another 5-8 gig off my images and it should be really fast then.

Could you not upgrade the kernel on the linux box. The kernel the OS uses and the kernel fog uses look to two different things. But I could be wrong. I upgraded to a newer kernel on my VM setup and suffered no ill effects but I built mine in VMware from the start. I’ll look for the walk through I used to upgrade my kernel and post it after I get back from my family gathering.

You might try some of the newest kernels from this post.
[URL=‘http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/dell-2330-all-in-one-network-issue.1054/’]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/dell-2330-all-in-one-network-issue.1054/htt[/URL]

we have Vostros 430 here and i know that the hard drive setting in the bios will cause it to hang I think I am using the ATA setting. But either way it worth a try and see it resolves your imaging problem.

I’m trying to understand how the snapins work code wise. I’m wanting to try to implement a location based pull for the fog client much like the multi location patch. But I’m not sure which files are doing what. Can anybody point me in the right direction? I would like to know which php file creates the task to pull the snapin from the fog server so I can maybe add a location if statement so it will pull from a storage node instead of the main fog server.

Works great man thanks

From the sounds of it your having a kernel problem. The kernel holds all the drivers FOG uses during the PXE boot. Updating the kernel is easy from the web gui. Other information -> then kernel updates and try one of the kernels. There have been a couple of posts with custom kernels built to handle Dells. If you can’t find one I have one on my production FOG server that might work.

Is it all from the same location or all over your network?

Have you tried another client machine as a test? Can you run the imaging from the same switch that the FOG server is plugged into? I would start from there and work my way back to the switch you are using for the client computer. Also check on the switch that the client machine is plugged into that you are not having a duplexing problem IE its full duplex on both side meaning at the switch and the client computer.

I have been tracking a problem similar to this. It ended up that one switch to the IT floor only had a 100 meg uplink where all the rest have 1 gig uplinks so when I swapped over to another switch boom 1.5 gig deploy speed and 1 gig uploads. I ended up jumping a gig port from our distro switch to our prep room where I setup a cheap D-link gig switch for our help desk to image machines. The Prep room is now getting 2.5 down and 1.5 up.

I thought it was something with FOG. I original set FOG up in VMware and thought our new SAN was crapping out from the I/O from imaging. But I then set up a physical server and it was the same result. I started from the VMware rack plugging in and testing download speeds.

You can down load iftop to the linux box and run it from the terminal and point it to your network interface and it will show you what its doing.

run sudo apt-get install iftop from the terminal

then sudo iftop -i eth2 it should output the current connections and the amount of the link that each is using.

I have been working on setting up FOG for the company I work for as a replacement for Ghost. I have setup a version 0.31 that is using the [URL=‘http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/requested-multi-site-location-patch-requested.410/’]Mutli-site location patch[/URL]. It seems to be working great as we have 20+ remote locations and a three building main campus. I found that snap-in still pull from the main campus site to the remote locations would it be possible to add the functionality to have the FOG agent pull the snap-in from the local storage like image?

I want to say that all those who have put in their hard earned time and energy into this project Thank You!! This is one of the best IT solutions have ever used and the support and development is top notch.

I have noticed that after applying this you can’t delete computer from the web GUI I 'm no coding master but if you have a chance could you take a look and see if this could be fixed.

If I may ask how did you setup your multi site? I am looking to have the main Fog server send the command but have the local node push the images and snap-ins.

Have you checked the DHCP scope to make sure its populating the default gateway? I had this problem when I setup a new scope in a rush for my VMware vlan.

I have some questions on the proper way to configure Fog to work in a multi site setup. We have one main campus that includes three buildings all on the same subnet 10.0.0.0. Then we have 20 branches that are on 192.168.x.x third octet is the branch ID then the fourth being the range of IP’s given out to machnes.

    I setup Fog to replace a botched Ghost install that has been running for five years or so and only images machines at the helpdesk. We are mainly a windows shop and DHCP scopes are controlled here at the main campus for all branches. My thoughts after reading the forums on how I can set this up so we can image from a local storage node at each location would be to set them up as TFTP/PXE and point the scope for each location to the local storage node and leave the client on each machine configured to the main Fog server at the main campus.

    Will this allow us to control the imaging process from the main Fog server while only pushing images and Snap-ins from the local storage node? If there are steps to control the local machines so that they will accept commands from the main server while only pull images from the local node I'm not seeing any but if you guys could point me in the right direction I would be very grateful. Fog is the best free solution I have ran across and you guys kick ass.

Sorry for the wall of text. I try to remember to format it for easy reading next time.