Posts made by fry_p

@george1421 I will look tomorrow as I am off today. I know it is in the 1000’s. I like your layout there though. This seems quite doable.

@george1421 I definitely did mean one database. I don’t quite know why i said cluster! I am in the use-case creation stage so this may not even take off, but I will wait for @Wayne-Workman to chime in since it seems at one time he has done this. The post I was referring to was his post in this: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12993/use-an-external-database

I am really willing to experiment here if it gets off the ground.

I realize Wayne’s visits are fewer now that he is in a different setting and I am willing to be super patient.

EDIT: @astrugatch I will explore this too but is that a free solution?

I wanted to make a post about my theoretical foray into possibly setting up load balancing for both HTTP and DB connections for my fog setup due to the number of clients (and to play around too!). This is all inspired by an old post by @Wayne-Workman who I hope can help me if he has time. I am in the research phase right now but basically here are my thoughts:

A cluster of 3 fog servers tied together by HAProxy for both Http connections and a Galera MariaDB cluster.

I am reading up on the viability of this solution. Anyone else have any thoughts?

@Sunks I use this method to clean out tasks and other odd database junk:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Troubleshoot_MySQL#Database_Maintenance_Commands

I really only do the first batch of cleanup commands in this link, deemed the safe ones to perform.

@rinfog said in Image deployed to laptop but hangs at Exiting PXE boot when not hardwired:

Yes the machine boots into Windows fine as long as the Ethernet cable is connected.
SATA operation is set to AHCI.

If you boot into the machine with it hard wired, does Event Viewer show anything out of the ordinary for previous failed wireless boots?

@rinfog said in Image deployed to laptop but hangs at Exiting PXE boot when not hardwired:

The machine already joined the domain and installed all snapins (while connected via Ethernet).
We did use sysprep on the image prior to capture.

Ah, so this is not the first boot after imaging… Very strange. May I ask what SATA operation you have enabled for the client? We always recommend AHCI and not RAID ON. You should be able to verify this setting in the bios somewhere.

@rinfog said in Image deployed to laptop but hangs at Exiting PXE boot when not hardwired:

FOG Server = 1.5.7
FOG Client = Smart Installer 0.11.16
FOG Server Linux distro = CentOS 7
I am not trying to PXE boot over wifi, this is indeed post-imaging the client.

Thanks for the information. I also just saw in the OP that you are getting a black cursor when manually booting into Windows without it being hardwired. May I ask if you are attempting to join a domain at all with the FOG client or another method? Do you sysprep the image as well prior to capture?

@davemccracken no harm no foul man. I am learning linux facts every day and I have been a FOG user for about 6-7 years. Many a time I find myself googling how the heck to do something still. Far from a master here.

@rinfog I hope you do not speak of trying to PXE Boot off of WIFI. This is not supported in my mind.

What I think you mean is without a hardwired Ethernet Cable, the PC will not boot? My first thought is that something is funky with the boot order. Please clarify a few things:

FOG Server version and FOG Client Version
FOG Server Linux distribution
If you are indeed talking about PXE over wifi
If you are instead speaking of booting post-imaging the client

@dot @Mark-krikunov I do not believe that if the proper syntax and permissions are used, there should not be a need to delete the fogproject service account. In fact, I myself would highly advise against that. Just think if somehow this didn’t fix the upgrade issue, then you would be left with a paperweight of a FOG Server.

Please try @Sebastian-Roth 's suggestion. If you are still having trouble after that, please let us know.

@Mark-krikunov said in Host Status is Unknow:

@Tom-Elliott I am aware of that, but it something just annoyed and drilled my eyes every time i looked at host list, so i just wanted that to be fixed. And i just made some holes in firewall so just waiting for some results to pop on screen.

The hosts status is not perfect. But I want to mirror Tom’s comments by saying that the few developers that work on FOG focus currently on the fundamentals of imaging. I love these other features (and their quirks) but please understand that with the developers doing this on their own time, they must triage priorities.

@dot Silly question, may I ask what context you are running the installer as? I usually sudo -i before navigating to the directory and running ./installfog.sh

Could be wrong but it is a place to start along with providing your OS distribution.

+1 on the checkin time increase. My server struggled until I did this with the thousands of clients I have.

I am interested in this topic otherwise. Weighing the pros and cons of external/isolated DB to better handle the amount of clients we use.

I will try to get to this during the coming week. Been crazy at work and am having a rough time right now otherwise. I haven’t been as active here as I would like to be tbh

@george1421 I think I misunderstood the meaning of persistent groups off the bat. This is certainly something that can help me with my use case. I am a little embarrassed I didn’t know about this a long time ago to be honest. I got scolded for remote work this holiday weekend already, so I will look into implementing this on Tuesday if it isn’t busy. Thank you for the info!

@george1421 I want to re-visit this in the near future when we aren’t super busy at work. I will look into persistent groups too. Just wanted to not leave you hanging.

Hi All,
I wanted to either ask about or request a feature to include a snapin association with all newly registered hosts.

I think it would be a useful resource for fog users. I can go into more detail if needed but I would think this would be useful

Please let me know your thoughts. It could be like a checkbox on the snapin creation page.

Thanks!
fry_p

@Arjenbulkens I would still try the method @george1421 mentioned just in case (run the script manually and see if any prompts show up). I use snapins quite frequently and have to test using this almost every time. Something is hanging it up and the most common issue for me is whatever I’m trying to run prompting for user input. The snapin method already hides stuff, but it may still be “trying” to prompt the user invisibly.

@Hanz said in FOG 1.5.6 pushbullet Plugin not functioning:

@fry_p lightspeed…I eventually figured it out thank you though

I use lightspeed too! Relay and the rocket filters. Still getting the hang of them tbh. Glad you got it

@Hanz I had re-categorized “api.pushbullet.com” from a blocked category to an allowed one. It all really depends on which filter you use. I’d try whitelisting whatever permutation of all of the subdomains of pushbullet.com your filter uses. It may involve something like:

*.pushbullet.com
or if your filter is like mine, there is a checkbox for all subdomains.

If you still are having trouble, let us know what kind of filter you have.