@dopyrory3 said in How to PXE boot from master node in location/storage group:
so the imaging actions of other admins in other countries can be monitored for usage, issues, and consistency.
You can do this by logging into the web UIs of the FOG master nodes at each location or even easier write a little “tool” to or manually pull that information from the location (master) nodes. From my point of view there is no point in making the overall FOG setup decision depend on the reporting you want to get from the system. This should have way less priority than actual imaging and transfer of stuff over the VPN as this will cause you and your team way more issues and headaches when the initial setup decision is not ideal.
I’m intending to disable the storage node features of the Central Master server so it’s not assigned to any Storage group, and let storage nodes take up the responsibility of deploy/capture for their respective countries.
As mentioned before, capture can only be done to a master node. There is no way (other than really hacking a fair bit of the code) to get a machine to capture an image to a storage node.
using the AccessControl plugin to restrict them somewhat
Another plugin that does not belong to the core code (as all plugins do). While they are part of the official code they don’t get as much attention as the core code does. Not because we don’t like those but because we hardly have enough people to work on the core and can’t afford to put in as much energy into the plugins as we do in the core. What that means is that most plugins have been added by vigorous FOG users and we don’t have anyone to improve those as much as we work on the FOG core. When people report a bug we try to fix though. I think you get what I mean. The access control plugin is one of the most overrated in the FOG world I reckon. People hope to get a full blown access control to restrict people from anything they want them from doing but in reality FOG was not build with layers of access in mind and this plugin won’t solve it properly.
I want to have nodes for countries, but centralise the management aspect.
I think it’s really good you start looking into FOG and asking in the forums because we are keen to set you on the “right way” to enjoy using FOG a way it can really make your life a lot easier. But there are tripping hazards that we can try to rule out beforehand. So again, centralizing the management in a single Central-Master will leave you with some big hurdles to cope with. Let’s re-think that design I’d offer.