@dpotesta50 Look back at Sebastian’s post. It contains links to information on how to do this.
Posts made by george1421
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RE: Update Installation Files Within An Image
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RE: Update Installation Files Within An Image
@quazz said in Update Installation Files Within An Image:
large changes to resizable images as well
This is a great point, if we just mount the image file and change it will it throw off the numbers collected for single disk resizable?
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RE: Update Installation Files Within An Image
@dpotesta50 IMO this is a bad way to manage this process altogether. You can leverage FOG snapins or even better PDQ Deploy to send images to remote computers. You don’t have to login to the remote computer at all.
With that said there are ways to connect to the captured image on the fog server, make changes to the disk image and then reseal it without ever transferring the image or needing to recompile it.
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RE: 2 primary fog plan
@msi Well there isn’t a clean way to control replication based on time of day. But there is a way…
There are two elements to this.
- In each image definition you can control what images replicate. For you to send only two a night, just enable the images for replication you want to replicate on that day.
- You can setup a cron task to enable and disable the fog replicator service based on time of day. Using the same concept you can change the bandwidth consumption by updating the record in the database then restarting the fog replicator service.
Depending on your image size, you might be better off seeding the remote locations via a usb flash drive then enabling replication on the master node once the images have been seeded on the remote storage nodes.
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RE: mp500 nvme drive not recognized but it was recognized before
@jj-fullmer said in mp500 nvme drive not recognized but it was recognized before:
Intel Optane storage controller configuration majigger.
What model computer was/is this from (for future reference).
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RE: FOG Web GUI speed and default storage activity
@jgallo I’m not seeing any value in adding vCPUs to this VM. And this VM is about 10% utilized.
It looks like the system was rebooted in the last 5 minutes?? That will skew the load values, but so far the system looks normal. It would be interesting to see what the stats are running during the day time under normal load.
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RE: FOG Web GUI speed and default storage activity
@jgallo Can you post the header section of top here?
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RE: Update Installation Files Within An Image
I’m not sure I understand how your setup is, it sounds a bit unique.
But If you deploy an image to a target hard drive, then move that hard drive and add it as a second hard drive on a functioning computer, you can add/remove files from that installation folder. Once you update the files, move that hard drive back to the target computer then recapture the image.
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RE: UEFI booting with Surface book 4
For fog 1.4.4 and the surface pros please try this pxe boot file: ipxe7156.efi With the kernels included with FOG 1.5.0 (not out yet) the iPXE guys (different open source project) addressed the issue where ipxe.efi wasn’t working with the surface pros.
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RE: 2 primary fog plan
@msi You assign the host you want to image to a location too. That way the target knows who better to talk to. Otherwise it just goes back to the master node.
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RE: FOG Web GUI speed and default storage activity
For ubuntu, I’m still working on the php-fpm config. For centos it works. BUT if you only have 60 hosts hitting your fog server and you have a performance issue, then something else is going on.
What is your client check in interval (in the fog settings page)? The default is every 5 minutes. With only 60 hosts that shouldn’t hit too bad, with 200 hosts I might think differently.
What is the stats on your FOG server? How much memory, vCPU, process time from
top
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RE: 2 primary fog plan
@msi said in 2 primary fog plan:
What if the master node went down for some odd reason, can we still be able to deploy from the branch storage
No in this setup if the master node is off-line all of the storage nodes would be down. There is one part I left out in my wall of text from before. One of the differences between a storage node and a normal node is that the storage node doesn’t have a local database. It uses (connects) to the master node’s (normal mode) database for scheduling and reporting. If the master node is down, then there is no database for the storage nodes. There is an unsupported way to kind of make this scenario work, but its no 100% clean.
In your Elizabeth example. Did you install the FOG location plugin? Did you assign a storage node to a location? Did you assign the target computer to a location?
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RE: 2 primary fog plan
First let me say (yes I know where it came from) this is a pretty old drawing that may not reflect the current FOG design.
A FOG server has two different modes. These modes are selected when you first install FOG. The first mode is “Normal” and the second mode is “Storage”.
A Normal mode install is what you would do if you had a single stand alone fog server.
A Storage mode install is what you would do if you needed to place one or more FOG servers closer to the target computers than a Master (normal mode install).
In this setup you will have a master node and one or more slave (storage) nodes. These storage nodes can be local to the master node (to share the imaging load) or remote beyond some WAN link.
The master node copies all of the snapins and images from the master node to all of the storage nodes in its storage group.
Target computers can pxe boot from local storage node servers, BUT they must be able to reach the master node during pxe booting. Also if you are using the FOG client on each computer, the FOG Client will only interact with the Master FOG server and not the local storage nodes. On e final caveat, when capturing an image, only master nodes can accept an image. To say it another way, Master Nodes can capture and deploy images and snapins, Storage Nodes can only deploy images.
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RE: Setting up the right FOG Environment
@sebastian-roth The issue is (only guessing here), that the OP needs to setup a multicast router, or on their vlan router allow multicast data to pass through the router. Most routers have this disabled by default. One other thing is to have IGMP Snooping enabled on the switches so that the switches know who is a IGMP subscriber and who doesn’t care about the data stream (i.e. PIM Sparse Mode vs Dense Mode).
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RE: PXE connection Using Windows 2008 as DHCP Server
@techadmin There is a wiki page that covers this: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Multicasting
The other thing is your networking infrastructure. If all of your target machines are on the same subnet as your FOG server, then you are good to go. If they are on different subnets then you need to get with your infrastructure team and discuss setting up a multicast router or allowing multicasts to traverse your subnets. This is not something specific to FOG, but rather multicast data paths.
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RE: Apache Issue
@avaryan Interesting, how many computers do you have checking into this FOG server?
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RE: Setting up the right FOG Environment
@tomcatkzn said in Setting up the right FOG Environment:
So a vhdx of about a 250Gb for /Images should be a good starting point then.
Yes that is a good size since you need storage for 30 computer images.
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RE: Setting up the right FOG Environment
@tomcatkzn said in Setting up the right FOG Environment:
Can you elaborate on how you: “use FOG to place the required diver files in a predefined location on the target system during imaging.”
Sure…
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7740/the-magical-mystical-fog-post-download-script
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7391/deploying-a-single-golden-image-to-different-hardware-with-fog
https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/4278/utilizing-postscripts-rename-joindomain-drivers-snapinsIMO building your reference image on a VM is the only proper way to build your reference image. I would dislike doing what I do on a real system, it would really slow down our workflow with building new reference images.