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I restarted the install the fog files were missing. Seems to be good now…not sure what happened.

Its a 404.

I have FOG 1.2.0 installed. I use to go to “myfogservername/fog” to access the UI. Now when I navigate there I get 404 not found. if i just go to “myfogservername” it gives me the it works message. Any thoughts?

Thanks for the response, just wanting to make sure I get my ducks in a row before I got started. Once I have the server up and running I will report back.

Thanks

I think the easiest way might be a new install since what I have isn’t working anyway. Do you think my old images will still work? its not a big deal to upload new ones, just curious. I’m gonna try setting up a new VM with 14.04 and 1.2.0. Being a VM shouldn’t be an issue right?

1. I am actually still running 0.32. I haven’t tried 1.2.0 yet, but at this rate if that would help I would probably just do a fresh install.

2. The PC’s I am working with right now are Dell Optiplex 3010. The previous fog setup worked with all the PC’s in the district so I was surprised when I started having issues.

3. I worked with our switching vendor to change option 67 to this " 67 ASCII pxelinux.0" . DHCP is handled by an Adtran NetVanta 3140 if that helps.

4. I used an older guide for the install of 0.32 which used Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

Hope that info helps, if more is needed just let me know.

I inherited a fog system a few years ago that was working great, but unfortunately stopped work recently. Since the old server was version 0.32 I thought I would stick with the version I knew.

I thought everything was setup nicely, but I am having some issues. Since I’m not sure if the issues are related I will try to describe them all here first then go from there.

I am able to access the web UI and upload images to network location.

The first issue i noticed was when I was trying to register a machine (when the old fog server went down I lost my hosts). I get something like “hdparm: ioctl 0x304 failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device.” I also tried quick registration which seems to work, but after the hosts appears in the web UI, it never restarts on its own. I have to shut it down manually.

So I entered a few hosts manually in the web UI to see if I could at least deploy an image to them. Everything seems to work until the host gets to “Checking the queue” which it seems to do indefinitely (the longest I have waited it 6 mins).

This occurs on a few different makes and models of PC’s we have. Any help is appreciated and I can provide more information.

Thanks,
Justus

Turns out the power outage caused the original (physical) fog server to turn on when the power was restore. I arrive at this conclusion after I removed the network cables form the machine that fog should be on and stopped the another old virtual fog server on another, yet I was still able to PXE boot with fog. After calling the previous tech guy we came to the conclusion that the original fog server had to be on, and it was. It was a combination of miss-information and mother nature. I did find that the original fog servers mysql database was not running and I was unable to start it again. Now the virtual fog server is up and running fine. Thanks for the help and fast responses, sorry wasting your time

Just some more info that might help. The web ui is much slower than usual.

Also I had queued some PCs to deploy last week and they were able to complete the task. I tried to start a deploy task via the web ui, but when the PC was rebooted it did not start to deploy, I booted form the hard disk.

1. Yes they are still finding fog. The “Invalid MAC Address (3)” error occurs after I have started a fog job via PXE boot. We have 2 campuses. This is at the 2nd campus. I consider the campus with the physical server with the fog server running out 1st.

2. The one I’m at (2nd) right now can access the Web UI and the mysql database at [url]http://fogserver/phpmyadmin/[/url]. I will check at the other campus and post again.

Hi,

I just started work at a school district and they had a fog set up in place. The previous IT guy moved the virtual fog server and got it up and running fine. However last week we had a power outage and now I am not always able to get fog web UI. I think part of the problem is that when the old server came up it started the old virtual fog server too. I did search a bit before posting. Most of the suggestions I saw were making sure the password for the mysql users were correct, and after checking them I still have the same problem.

I noticed the problem when trying to set up new PC’s that we just got. Last Tuesday before the outage I was able to image computers fine. But when I got in today and tried to do a full inventory and install on a PC I get an error “Invalid MAC Address (3)”. I also tried to quick image a few machines and get an error “Database Error : Unable to Proceed!”.

The Web UI problem is intermittent, and I get “Unable to connect to database.” I’m sorry if my description of the problem is confusing, but please let me know what other information that is needed to help me clear up my problem.