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I decided to solve this problem a different way. I created a snap in that launches a VBscript that I found and modified to run updates on the image when deployed. WindowsUpdates_1.2.vbs This script runs updates and installs them, as long as they are not hidden. It will continue to run and install updates until it runs a check and finds none left.

I still have a practice of downloading the images to a machine and updating them every 2-3 months to avoid 100’s of updates over time. But this works really well to make sure they get updated every time they are deployed.

This also has the added benefit of being able to be run anytime you want to force updates to a particular system. It does not reboot automatically, but Windows updates prompts for reboot if needed.

Are you using FOG for DHCP? Have you tried a different model computer to determine if it is the client or the FOG server?

I too am having the same error of blank screen on schema update page with the latest trunk. on Ubuntu 14.04.

@Wayne Workman, Yes it looks as though I will be rebuilding much of the network. I know all about documentation. That is a big part of when I come into a company, when I go in I am not contracted as a full time replacement. Usually as a consultant or cases like this to help them determine how thing should proceed into the future and/or hire a replacement. This is a special case as I am going to work with whoever gets hired to assist for a longer term in getting everything to a point that is manageable, and documentation is key. For this case I was just trying to make my job easier as the last tech had things setup pretty well and running rather smoothly. Too bad he didn’t value documentation.

I do know about getting them from Windows machines, but that doesn’t help much as these are AD, Cisco, and Linux machines I am dealing with that I need passwords to. I did get the local admin password for the computers, which wasn’t used anywhere else. Which doesn’t surprise me, as I don’t know many admins that would use the same password as the local admin accounts.

As for donating I agree, I am going to address that as soon as I can with the company. I have set up other FOG servers for schools and non-profits and enabled mining on them. This is the first for profit business that I have gone with FOG on. I do contract IT services and love FOG and suggest implementing it in almost all cases.

I understand that you are uncomfortable sharing that information. I don’t blame you, I was hoping though.

The issue is this is a small company that has always been a 1 man shop and the previous tech passed-away and they contracted my services. Some of the systems I am referring to about trying to get passwords for are switches, firewalls, and even a couple linux boxes that other than brute force or rebuild there is no way. As you can image wiping firewalls and switches and routers and rebuilding is not a solution. Or not a solution that I can implement quickly, or easily. I am trying to keep them up with very little down time and issues. The powers that be had no idea about IT and he was here for over 10 yrs, so no one really questioned or asked. The only reason I was able to get into FOG was because he kept it as the default. Thanks again and I will see if there is anything else I can do.

OK, So I have an odd question. I took over IT in a small company and they were already using FOG, which is great since I love to use it. But I am having problems accessing several systems as they had no docs on things. They do have FOG joining to AD, I was hoping to find a way to decrypt the password for the client to find what it is(it is the legacy client FOG 1.2). I know I can change the password in AD and update it in FOG. But the reason to decrypt is to hopefully gain access to a few systems that are not AD integrated without jumping through many hurdles(I am hoping they had a generic password they used for admin accounts).

And no there is no way of getting the information from the previous tech unfortunately. Just hoping you can help and if not then I guess I have alot of work ahead of me. I might even if you can help, but here’s to hope. Thanks

What version of FOG and Ubuntu are you using? Did you recently update either of them?

I had a similar issue on my server and I found that when I updated to the new trunk that the passwords in fog configuration>fog settings>tftpserver and the fog account on ubuntu did not match. I updated the password in ubuntu to the one showing in the settings and it fixed this issue. As the storage nodes use the password you added into the storage configuration this sounds like it could be the same issue.

So I got this working in a round about way. I tried to create a new snap in and it gave me an FTP credential error, so I went in and changed my fog user password to match what the configuration showed it should be and now it works. The log viewer also works.

Not sure but maybe the install script is changing the fog password in one place and not another. But I am able to edit snap ins and view my event logs again.

I am new to using git, how do you go to a previous version with git?

I tried to get the logs but the log viewer doesn’t give any options for which logs to view and reports “no data to read.” I am going to try re-running the installer and see if maybe it was just a fluke in the install.

I was thinking that might be a syntax issue. But as I couldn’t find anything on the forums about it I wondered if maybe it was something else. Thought it was odd that no one else had reported it.

I just updated to truck, via git, this morning from 1.2.0 so that I could get the new client and great features. But now when I go into the snap in page I am not able to edit snap ins. I can create new snap in and see the snap in lists but when I try to edit it loads the edit page with out displaying any of the snap in properties that I can edit. I looked through the forums and cannot find anything on this. Can someone please give me advice?

I am running Ubuntu 12.04
Latest trunk as of 11 am EST

Edit:
I get this on both Chrome and Firefox. On my Windows and on the server itself. So it definitely doesn’t appear to be a browser rendering issue.

You could just create a CMD script with the commands you need to run and upload that as the snapin. You can either do one script with 4 commands or 4 scripts depending on how you need the tasks to run or if you ever need to run any of the commands separately. I personally put in a loop to check if the script has created a certain file before exiting, this helps with running commands in a certain order and letting the script rerun if it is interrupted.

I am attaching an example of one of the scripts use as a template to make my snaips. Feel feel to use it and change it up, it is a good guide and starting point. Just make sure that you save it as either as .bat or .cmd before using.

[url=“/_imported_xf_attachments/0/357_script.txt?:”]script.txt[/url]

I am doing the same thing. I actually have modified the SAD2 script to determine the make and model of the machine and use custom driver packs for each machine. I am finishing up the script and testing it on a few more of our models. When I get it complete I can post, along with a howto on the way I have it set up and running. I found that you do not need to have the machine logged into run it, I have it so that in case it reboots during the middle it will even resume the install so that you make sure all the drives get installed.

I am having this same issue, has anyone figured this out yet? I have setup 3 FOG servers for various places and set up a couple of them multiple times as I was learning the system better. But the latest one is the first I did on a VM and it is the only one that is giving me this issue. The time is off by 4 hrs.

I have checked the time on the server and my local PC. I have even tried adjusting the time on both to see if it would make a difference and it didn’t change anything. It seems to be an error in the way jquery is checking the time. I have doe some research into this but I am not familiar enough with javascript to know where I should be looking.

Please if someone could point me in the right direction I wouldn’t mind looking for a solution if I could get a starting point beyond that it seems to be javascript.

Actually update to my last post that may be a better solution for you is this:

1. on your image set the Fog service as disabled
2. In your script at the very end add these 2 lines:
   sc config “Fog service” start= auto
   net start “Fog service”
   This will keep the service from starting at all until the script is done and set it to auto start from then on

Is the driver script coming from the FOG server as a snap in or is it called as a first run command through sysprep? If it is the later then it should be the first thing command that you use in the script. I personally call my script from FOG as a snap in and it doesn’t deploy until after the machine is already named and joined to our domain.