Hi,

Thank you for your quick replies and I appreciate your help!

Yup, I agree, is not a very common case, I will try to explain the process better.

The idea is to use this in esports events, we would receive X amount of computers, all with the same hardware and all with a SSD inside.

• Before hand we, admins, would do the image deployment in all the computers/SSDs.
• After the image being deployed we would remove the SSD from the computer.
• These SSDs are now sorted and randomly assigned to each player which will keep it and use it in different locations/PCs

All good here, the goal now is that we want to easily be able to identify where is each player, IP and PC, by their team/nickname. This will help us as well to have some kind of PC monitoring and making sure the hardware is working as expected.

The only way I see this working is if on the first boot after imaging there is user side input to choose who they are and for that info to be sent to FOG. This means that the PC from that moment most be tracked by disk information or some other variable which is different from client to client. Since the MAC address will change.

Would be interesting to have this feature and I’m keen to help in any way possible.

Cheers.

Hey guys,

I’m new to FOG and it seems to be perfect for what I’m looking for, just have a challenge here for you, hope you can help.

I want to deploy multiple images in a scenario where users change between PCs, all the PCs have the same hardware and they would just carry their SSD from PC to PC using a front panel hotswap.
The imaging part would be normal but my challenge is how to identify the user after since I’m not able to match the user to the mac address (for example).

I see that the fog client has the ability to change the hostname of the machine, but in my case I don’t know yet who’s going to use that image/SSD.

Would you see a way where I would have a dropdown menu of a list of department/employee on the first time the OS boots? (Windows 10 in this case) Depending on the input by the user it would change the system hostname to something predefined by me and that could be seen in FOG gui after deployment. This way I would be able to identify that client in any PC he would be using.

Thanks in advance!