Posts made by Greg Plamondon

@Midview-Tech
I Like being able to deploy software to the remote clients from time to time so disabling the fogservice isn’t an option for us.
What we did is change the “CLIENT CHECKIN TIME” under fog settings in the console so it doesn’t check in so often.

I am seeing the following:

When this happens I need to restart:
FOGImageSize
FOGImageReplicator
FOGPingHosts
FOGMulticastManager
FOGSnapinHash
FOGSnapinReplicator

in order for things to start replicating again.

Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
I am getting the following error message in the GUI when trying to view the apache error log.

Unable to open file for reading

here is the /var/log/apache2/error.log

[Tue Aug 09 13:12:08.387251 2022] [proxy_fcgi:error] [pid 2159911] [client 192.168.10.238:34466] AH01071: Got error 'PHP message: PHP Warning:  fopen(/var/log/apache2/error.log): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/fog/status/logtoview.php on line 86'

@george1421
I need to know what PC a user has logged into.
you can find it in the GUI under Reports > User Tracking

from there you can type a users login ID ito the field and search it will list what PC the user has logged into.

Can anyone help me with a Mysql query to track users?
I would like to search by username.

The reason I am asking is the user tracking function is giving me fits, we have a very large database.

Thanks.

@george1421
Thanks, I did manage to get fog installed, turns out that I was using the TFTP password and not the MySQL Password, it was a long day and I am glad it’s Friday!

What other tweaks do you have for me?

Thanks!

@markg said in Disable USB support in iPXE?:

FOG.

Do you have Secure boot disabled in BIOS?

@george1421 said in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Install Fails:

ng not intel.

I am installing it on an Raspberry Pi4

*** Sorry forgot the log

fog_error_1.5.9.log

I am trying to install a fog v1.5.9 on Ubuntu 18.04.02 LTS and its failing.

 * Setting up fogproject user..................................Skipped
 * Locking fogproject as a system account......................OK
 * Setting up fogproject password..............................OK
 * Checking connection to master database......................Failed!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!! The installer was not able to run all the way to the end as   !!
!! something has caused it to fail. The following few lines are  !!
!! from the error log file which might help us figure out what's !!
!! wrong. Please add this information when reporting an error.   !!
!! As well you might want to take a look at the full error log   !!
!! in /root/fogproject-1.5.9/bin/error_logs/fog_error_1.5.9.log !!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ii  vsftpd         3.0.3-9build1 arm64        lightweight, efficient FTP server written for security
ii  wget           1.19.4-1ubuntu2.2 arm64        retrieves files from the web
ii  xinetd         1:2.3.15.3-1 arm64        replacement for inetd with many enhancements
ii  zlib1g:arm64   1:1.2.11.dfsg-0ubuntu2 arm64        compression library - runtime
Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully
root@FOGPI-DEV:~/fogproject-1.5.9/bin#

Does anyone have a fix for this?
Thanks.

Fog Server 1.59
Fog Client V 0.12.0

 2/10/2022 11:05:03 AM Service Sleeping for 70 seconds
 2/10/2022 11:06:13 AM Middleware::Communication URL: http://10fogserver/fog/management/index.php?sub=requestClientInfo&configure&newService&json
 2/10/2022 11:06:13 AM Middleware::Response Success
 2/10/2022 11:06:13 AM Middleware::Communication URL: http://10fogserver/fog/management/index.php?sub=requestClientInfo&mac=00:09:0F:FE:00:01|00:09:0F:AA:00:01|BC:E9:2F:DE:40:8B|C8:58:C0:F4:AC:55|CA:58:C0:F4:AC:54|C8:58:C0:F4:AC:54|C8:58:C0:F4:AC:58&newService&json
 2/10/2022 11:06:13 AM Middleware::Response Invalid host
 2/10/2022 11:06:13 AM Middleware::Communication URL: http://10fogserver/fog/service/getversion.php?clientver&newService&json
 2/10/2022 11:06:13 AM Middleware::Communication URL: http://10fogserver/fog/service/getversion.php?newService&json

 2/10/2022 11:06:13 AM Service Creating user agent cache
 2/10/2022 11:06:13 AM Middleware::Response Module is disabled globally on the FOG server
 2/10/2022 11:06:13 AM Middleware::Response Module is disabled globally on the FOG server
 2/10/2022 11:06:13 AM Middleware::Response Module is disabled globally on the FOG server

Long story short, I migrated to a new server and lost access to the old server cert files so now the clients do not authenticate to the new server.
I have a script that uninstalls the old client and reinstalls the new 0.12.0 client but it doesn’t want to register the clients in fog.
I don’t see pending hosts in the GUI.

I do have FOG_CLIENT_HOSTREGISTER_ENABLED set to 1
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I just wanted to update the forums incase anyone else came across this issue.
I ended up changing the settings /etc/xinetd.d/tftp to adjust the block size.

Old:
server_args     = -s /tftpboot
New:
server_args     = -B 1350 -s /tftpboot

@sebastian-roth yeah, thanks for the tip plugins have got me in the past I should have tried that before posting.

@sebastian-roth
I have Accesscontrol, Location, persistentgroups, subnetgroup and wolbroadcast installed.

**UPDATE: I Just removed HostStatus and SubnetGroups as I wasn’t using it, and the problem is gone. I don’t know which plugin was causing it.

@sebastian-roth I did what you asked.
The Fog Client is installed on the client system.
This is happening on 2 UEFI Systems so far. I don’t have that many
I made sure the machine was powered off. I went into the host settings and set the Host client Bios Exit Type to Exit and clicked save. I refreshed the page and made sure the setting was still present. I powered on the client and pressed the ESC key to access the fog menu. (I have the fog menu hidden) I refreshed the fog web page and the Host Bios Exit Type was changed back to “- Please Select an Option”.

@sebastian-roth If the machine reboots for any reason manually or through fog task it gets reverted

“Host Bios Exit Type” and “Host EFI Exit Type” get reverted back to “-Please select an option” after the client reboots.

@sebastian-roth
Here is a screenshot:

The strange thing is it works with UEFI bios

This is a site that was working correctly with our previous service provider.
Now we have a Fortigate 60F as the router instead of a Cisco 1941. I am convinced it has to be something on the Fortigate that is blocking the traffic.

I have a storage node at one of our remote sites. The client PXE boot will not download the undionly.kkpxe file.

I have included the log file that shows successful attempts from clients and then the unsuccessful clientIP=10.26.100.115

One thing in particular that I noticed is that the client gets assigned 2 different IP addresses (10.10.150.90 10.10.150.195) during the PXEboot and TFTP exchange. Is there a reason to why it would assign 2 different IP addresses?

May 19 12:28:05 10fogserver in.tftpd[7343]: Client 10.26.100.115 finished undionly.kkpxe
May 19 12:28:05 10fogserver in.tftpd[7343]: Client 10.26.100.115 timed out
May 19 12:34:02 10fogserver in.tftpd[10201]: Error code 0: TFTP Aborted
May 19 12:34:02 10fogserver in.tftpd[10202]: Client 10.10.150.90 finished undionly.kkpxe
May 19 12:34:06 10fogserver in.tftpd[10218]: Client 10.10.150.195 finished default.ipxe
May 19 12:41:34 10fogserver in.tftpd[13599]: Error code 0: TFTP Aborted
May 19 12:41:34 10fogserver in.tftpd[13600]: Client 10.10.112.115 finished undionly.kkpxe
May 19 12:41:38 10fogserver in.tftpd[13620]: Client 10.10.112.193 finished default.ipxe
May 19 12:42:40 10fogserver in.tftpd[14122]: Error code 0: TFTP Aborted
May 19 12:42:40 10fogserver in.tftpd[14123]: Client 10.10.112.115 finished undionly.kkpxe
May 19 12:42:44 10fogserver in.tftpd[14159]: Client 10.10.112.193 finished default.ipxe
May 19 12:43:56 10fogserver in.tftpd[14625]: Error code 0: TFTP Aborted
May 19 12:43:56 10fogserver in.tftpd[14626]: Client 10.10.112.115 finished undionly.kkpxe
May 19 12:44:00 10fogserver in.tftpd[14646]: Client 10.10.112.193 finished default.ipxe
May 19 12:46:18 10fogserver in.tftpd[16079]: Error code 0: TFTP Aborted
May 19 12:46:24 10fogserver in.tftpd[16080]: Client 10.26.100.115 finished undionly.kkpxe
May 19 12:46:24 10fogserver in.tftpd[16080]: Client 10.26.100.115 timed out
May 19 12:48:32 10fogserver in.tftpd[17077]: Error code 0: TFTP Aborted
May 19 12:48:38 10fogserver in.tftpd[17078]: Client 10.26.100.115 finished undionly.kkpxe
May 19 12:48:38 10fogserver in.tftpd[17078]: Client 10.26.100.115 timed out

If anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

Thanks.

@sebastian-roth said in Boot Porteus Kiosk iso from fog pxe menu:

@Greg-Plamondon From what I read you can’t really install the kiosk client. Maybe I missed that part. But the FAQ states that you can customize the ISO file.

For PXE booting, have you tried memdisk iso booting yet? Thou this is legacy BIOS mode only:

initrd http://${fog-ip}/path/to/porteus.iso
chain memdisk iso raw
boot || goto MENU

Edit: Quickly extracted the ISO and found this in boot/pxelinux.cfg/default:

label pxe
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.xz,pxelinux.cfg/initrdpxe.xz quiet http_server=

So you might be able to boot the extracted ISO. But on the other hand we don’t know too much about the kernel parameters for network booting this beside the litte information on their website: https://porteus-kiosk.org/pxe-server.html

Be aware that FOG is not using pxelinux anymore. We use iPXE now and while you can do many more things with iPXE it’s not always possible to translate things over from the old pxelinux.

Thanks @Sebastian-Roth for looking into this for me. I guess I will stick the the USB stick installs for now.

We use Porteus Kiosk for our open enrollment process. instead of inserting a USB stick and installing the kiosk, I would like to install it from PXE.
If someone could help me with this it would be greatly appreciated.