@jj-fullmer

Hello, jj,

Thanks for the fog api notes, appreciate you helping us out. I’m not sure if you remembered me, but have a few questions.

I’m trying to do 2 things. One to assign a group to a machine one created in fog via powershell. I tried get-foggroupbyname, but says the parameter is not recognized.

It then told me to go to c:\program files… until I got to fogapi.psm1

I copied and pasted the command for cmdletBinding.

It didn’t error out, but didn’t return anything. Ex; , I know I created a Sales group in the Fog Gui with snapins assigned to it, so I wanted the machine to be assigned to that group to make it more dynamic. Please see attached pics. I’ll keep trying as well on my side. I’m so so on Powershell, but came a long way.

Ok, I think I got this figured out just now.
Thanks to you jj, I followed your example from your original link:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12026/powershell-api-module/11

So far I got this to work on one host: Here’s what I did by using your script:

$newAssocs = New-Object System.Collections.Generic.List[object];
$computer = (get-foghost -hostname “itloaner”).id
$groups = (get-fogobject -type object -coreobject group).groups | where-object name -eq “sales”
$groupAssocs = Get-FogObject -Type Object -CoreObject groupassociation

$json = @{
“hostID”=$computer;
“groupID”="$($groups.id)";
} | ConvertTo-Json;
# Note, when creating the json splat and then piping it to convertto-json you must encapsulate properties and values in quotes and match the case of the original property (i.e. ID instead of Id) as in this example or it won’t parse right and will return a 417 error from the api

$result = New-FogObject -type object -coreObject groupassociation -jsonData $json;
$NewAssocs.Add($result);

#list the newassocs that added the laptops to your group
$NewAssocs;

It then showed up as it added as per the results attached in this message.

For further proof, I went to my test host and verified it was added via the new-fogobject command. I’m starting to understand now how this works. I just need to keep playing around with it and should be good going forward.

My next task is to try to create a task via powershell to get the inventory of the machine before deploying the image. If you know of any commands, please let me know and I’ll keep trying myself as well.

Again thanks for the info.

@Sebastian-Roth said in unable to install CA certificate (MDT 2013):

@Jamaal said in unable to install CA certificate (MDT 2013):

I changed from the quiet switch to passive and I noticed the CA certificate error.

Please give us more information about this. Exact error message? Possible take a screenshot and port here.

Please close this ticket! It was my mistake. The issue was that I found a powershell script to disable the internet access during the MDT process, but the program was since fog tried to reach the ip address of the fog server, it was being blocked due to non internet access. I moved the script further down the process and it installed. Thanks for all of your input though.

@jj-fullmer said in Powershell API Module:

vscode

Thanks jj,

I’ll install & try out.

@jj-fullmer said in fog API powershell help:

$snapinsToRemove = @(‘snapin’,‘names’,‘here’);

That’s what I needed, an array to choose from a list. Thank you so much! Really appreciate you on helping me on this.

@george1421 hey George, so I see what the problem was with WSUS. I thought the content folder can be put anywhere since it said remote path. I tried my NAS both network path and iscsi, but still locks up the downloads. I did research and said it’s not supported in a network share, so I put it back on the local.

Now for the Office 2013 updates, I found this online to extract the service pack 1 and I was able to get the updates faster compared to WSUS.

https://www.howto-outlook.com/howto/slipstreamoffice2013sp.htm

I’m working on the unattend file and will work on copying files this weekend. The offline script I was following sucked and didn’t work no matter what I tried. I’ll keep you posted. Thanks for leading me in the right direction.

@Sebastian-Roth said in FOG 1.5.4 API host module settings:

Pinging @JJ-Fullmer on this.

All,

I figured this out! I got hostname changer via PowerShell. So here’s what I did to resolve it.
So with the script I got from this forum last week, I know it had the Json in a splat format. I’m so so with PowerShell
and doing a lot better than a few years back. So basically what KaterKarlo said, he has moduleid = 9.

It wasn’t working for me. To get the correct name and ID number, I ended up going to my fog server via the browser, then right click on the browser and view page source did a search for hostname changer. Then it came up the name modules and the value of 9. I finally ended up putting it with the rest of the splat and joined it with no issues:

“modules” = 9

I hope this helps someone as well if they need to get the values of a host.
But thank you guys always for pointing me in the right direction.

@jj-fullmer said in fog API powershell help:

$snapinsToRemove = @(‘snapin’,‘names’,‘here’);

That’s what I needed, an array to choose from a list. Thank you so much! Really appreciate you on helping me on this.

@jj-fullmer said in fog API powershell help:

@jamaal I have a function for inventory here https://fogapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/commands/Get-FogInventory/
It gets the same inventory information via powershell and adds it to fog.
I can also help you with queuing the native inventory task, but that might be a bit trickier. I think you can schedule more than one task for a machine when it’s a scheduled task, but I’m not sure.

Glad I had the code for get-foggroups somewhere to be found. It looks like something weird happened to the get-foggroups function and all the code disappeared from it. I’ll need to get that fixed as soon as I can as that function is used all over the place. I have made an issue for it https://github.com/darksidemilk/FogApi/issues/3

Thanks jj, appreciate it. And another question. So I read in the fog forums and also the general fog page that snapins for groups don’t function, correct? I created a group called sales and when I added snapins to it, they never stayed. I then started reading up on it and said the groups only serve mostly as a category for naming& imaging purposes.

It would be create if there was a way to add snapins to groups so when the other technicians use Microsoft Forms for example, they select which group the pc will go to and then the pc will automatically have all the snapins.

If somehow that gets done in future, please let me know. Or do you know of a powershell command to add multiple snapins at once? Ex; the tech would click on the checkbox on Microsoft Form for more than one snapin, so I need to create a powershell statement to group more than one snapin.

@jj-fullmer said in Powershell API Module:

vscode

Thanks jj,

I’ll install & try out.

Ok, I think I got this figured out just now.
Thanks to you jj, I followed your example from your original link:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/12026/powershell-api-module/11

So far I got this to work on one host: Here’s what I did by using your script:

$newAssocs = New-Object System.Collections.Generic.List[object];
$computer = (get-foghost -hostname “itloaner”).id
$groups = (get-fogobject -type object -coreobject group).groups | where-object name -eq “sales”
$groupAssocs = Get-FogObject -Type Object -CoreObject groupassociation

$json = @{
“hostID”=$computer;
“groupID”="$($groups.id)";
} | ConvertTo-Json;
# Note, when creating the json splat and then piping it to convertto-json you must encapsulate properties and values in quotes and match the case of the original property (i.e. ID instead of Id) as in this example or it won’t parse right and will return a 417 error from the api

$result = New-FogObject -type object -coreObject groupassociation -jsonData $json;
$NewAssocs.Add($result);

#list the newassocs that added the laptops to your group
$NewAssocs;

It then showed up as it added as per the results attached in this message.

For further proof, I went to my test host and verified it was added via the new-fogobject command. I’m starting to understand now how this works. I just need to keep playing around with it and should be good going forward.

My next task is to try to create a task via powershell to get the inventory of the machine before deploying the image. If you know of any commands, please let me know and I’ll keep trying myself as well.

Again thanks for the info.

@jj-fullmer or someone also that’s working on API

Hello, all,

Thanks for the fog api notes, appreciate you helping us out. I’m not sure if you remembered me, but have a few questions.

I’m trying to do 2 things. One to assign a group to a machine one created in fog via powershell. I tried get-foggroupbyname, but says the parameter is not recognized.parameter not recognized.

It then told me to go to c:\program files… until I got to fogapi.psm1

I copied and pasted the command for cmdletBinding.

It didn’t error out, but didn’t return anything. Ex; , I know I created a Sales group in the Fog Gui with snapins assigned to it, so I wanted the machine to be assigned to that group to make it more dynamic. Please see attached pics. I’ll keep trying as well on my side. I’m so so on Powershell, but came a long way.parameter

@jj-fullmer

Hello, jj,

Thanks for the fog api notes, appreciate you helping us out. I’m not sure if you remembered me, but have a few questions.

I’m trying to do 2 things. One to assign a group to a machine one created in fog via powershell. I tried get-foggroupbyname, but says the parameter is not recognized.

It then told me to go to c:\program files… until I got to fogapi.psm1

I copied and pasted the command for cmdletBinding.

It didn’t error out, but didn’t return anything. Ex; , I know I created a Sales group in the Fog Gui with snapins assigned to it, so I wanted the machine to be assigned to that group to make it more dynamic. Please see attached pics. I’ll keep trying as well on my side. I’m so so on Powershell, but came a long way.

@scottybullet

This was very helpful! Thanks for sharing this.
I used it with Microsoft Forms which goes back a SharePoint list, then talks to Microsoft
Orchestrator with all the variables, ex; image name, MAC, etc…

@JJ-Fullmer said in Need Powershell help:

@Jamaal I believe that the wake on lan is enabled by default, so you don’t need to do anything to include it when creating the deploy task via the api.

Ok, gotcha.

Thank you very much for letting me know of this.

@Sebastian-Roth said in FOG 1.5.4 API host module settings:

Pinging @JJ-Fullmer on this.

All,

I figured this out! I got hostname changer via PowerShell. So here’s what I did to resolve it.
So with the script I got from this forum last week, I know it had the Json in a splat format. I’m so so with PowerShell
and doing a lot better than a few years back. So basically what KaterKarlo said, he has moduleid = 9.

It wasn’t working for me. To get the correct name and ID number, I ended up going to my fog server via the browser, then right click on the browser and view page source did a search for hostname changer. Then it came up the name modules and the value of 9. I finally ended up putting it with the rest of the splat and joined it with no issues:

“modules” = 9

I hope this helps someone as well if they need to get the values of a host.
But thank you guys always for pointing me in the right direction.

@Sebastian-Roth said in FOG 1.5.4 API host module settings:

Pinging @JJ-Fullmer on this.

Thanks Sebastian,

Appreciate you and everyone else assisting. I’m still learning PowerShell up to this day
and like the fact the scripts on this forum is making Fog work even more dynamic.