Whenever I perform a multicast on a new batch of machines, I end up having to reset my database settings and manually stop and restart the FOGMulticastManager.

Is it possible to add an administrative function within the front end to do the following:

Run this on server and FOG Storage Node:

service FOGMulticastManager stop
service FOGMulticastManager start

Run this on the server…

Sudo -i
mysql -p #PWD for root user
use fog
DELETE FROM `multicastSessions` WHERE 1;
DELETE FROM `multicastSessionsAssoc` WHERE 1;
DELETE FROM `tasks` WHERE `taskTypeID` = 8;
quit

Thanks!

Cheers,

Joe Gill

@Developers
@Tom-Elliott

I have been happily using this function. It seems to work very well. Thanks Tom!!

Cheers!

Wed Jul 20, 2016 10:03 am
Running Version 8655
SVN Revision: 5932

Adding a group from host search is working but does not indicate to the user that it is successful.

The steps I performed to find this are…

1. Perform Search of hosts.
2. Check select all check box. (I tried just checking all boxes and it did not work either.)
3. Set name for new group.
4. Press Process Group Changes

Result… Nothing happens. The page doesn’t even try to re-load.

I checked in Groups and it does process changes. It just does not indicate to the User that anything is happening or has happened.

Thanks!

Cheers,

Joe

Well I’m making good progress in trying to resolve previous issues with our AD. Part of which is setting up a new image using sysprep… I’m in the process of making a Universal Windows 7 Image to deploy. I am doing this setup on a physical machine. I also have taken a “snapshot image” prior to running sysprep.

So I made all of my system wide changes and modifications in audit mode. Installed the unattend file along with a SetupComplete file. In the SetupComplete file I loaded a script to install AV and a script to delete the unattend file post install. After I did that, I ran sysprep /oobe /generalize /unattend:c:\windows\system32\sysprep\unattend.xml /shutdown. After this completes, I take my FOG image for my Universal Image.

What happens when I deploy the Universal Image is the system boots into the “first boot setup”, goes through it’s install process, than hangs on a black screen. The cursor hangs in the top left hand corner of the screen and mouse functionality is no longer existent. I have left this process sit for well over an hour but I still have the same result.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Joe Gill

Thanks! I’ll take a look see. I found the Wiki on Hooks. I’ve worked with PHP before in the past but it’s been many many versions ago.

@Wayne-Workman Thanks! That may be an option down the road. The other admin wasn’t too concerned. He said we will be re-doing our AD entirely next school year. At this point in the game, he seems fine with re-adding all the hosts manually to the domian… PITA in my opinion but… I guess it is what is is.

@Wayne-Workman

Thanks for the advice. We’ll figure it out. I’m sure it’ll be more work but at least we’ll have a clean slate. The good thing is that all of the hosts have been registered with FOG server. So it won’t be as much work as it has been up until now. Plus the multicast issues have been mostly resolved so that’s a plus. Gotta stay positive!

Cheers!

@Wayne-Workman More like a disaster that IS happening! smh… Live and learn. Better now to figure this out than once school is in session. Any advice on how to straighten it out? I’ll have to re-add everything that is out there… I’m assuming it’ll need to get corrected in AD…
Like I said, I’m the new guy… Arrf!

@Joe-Schmitt Good to know now. It’ll be a mess to straighten out now.

I tested the theory out on one machine that was not joining the domain properly and added it to a workgroup. Rebooted and voila, it’s happily on the domain. I’ll have to go check everything. Live and learn.

Cheers!

@Joe-Schmitt What’s crazy is that I didn’t have any issue (that I’m aware of) doing it that way before. I’ll start changing my images.

@george1421 Thank you!!

First off I’m using FOG Running Version 8515 SVN revision 5882…

@Developers So the past couple labs I’ve fogged (using Multicast) I’m finding that some machines hang at the Particlone screen. Most times when this happens I let it sit for 10 - 15 minutes just to make sure I’m not jumping the gun before I pull the trigger on it and kill the process and clean up the SQL database. After I do this and restart the service on the server and fog storage server, things work fine. I might have 1 or 2 or 8 hosts out of a multicast session that do this. I haven’t had one session go perfect where every single host is successful from the beginning.

Is their any particular reason this occurs?

@Joe-Schmitt Also, I have had an issue with hosts joining the AD post image. The message I get is, “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed.” I haven’t seen this until a recent FOG update. The client version that is installed on these machines is Ver. 0.11.3. Our AD server is Windows Server 2008

My process when I FOG the machines is to install all host software, add fog client, add to domain, then fog. I add to domain to get user specific shortcuts installed on their desktop.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

Cheers,

Joe

@george1421 Ok. So that’s what I thought initially. I was mistaken though because their kbase article was misleading. I experienced something similar years ago with CA AV. Sophos does allow for a silent install, so I may look into using something like PDQ Deploy or possibly snapins.

I’m new to some of this stuff. I was in IT years ago and got out of it for a little over 10 years. You can say things have changed a bit!

Thanks for the advice!

@Tom-Elliott Sweet! I’ll update and test it. Thanks Tom!

@Wayne-Workman They appear to register just fine in fog. No duplicates there. Everything seems fine. I register every host prior to imaging. Then, in most cases I multicast to a group of hosts there. I would think it’s fine.

@Wayne-Workman I’m running the latest trunk version. Running Version 8515
SVN Revision: 5882.

The computers register with Sophos but they all came in with two identical entries (both with the same host name). One that appears to be current, the other in most cases is weeks older and inactive. It could be that the other entry is from when the machine was on the domain prior to re-imaging. But some of these entries certainly were not there, as I changed the host names of many of the computers on the domain.

@Wayne-Workman That sounds like that may be easiest method to get the bulk of the printers added. I’ve been alt tabbing between screens and copy pasting things. It works but it’s a little time consuming. I’ll try the export / import option. Thanks!

@Tom-Elliott That would still be an awesome addition I think. It would certainly speed up adding one offs as new printers are added. No huge deal. Just thought it may be handy.

@Tom-Elliott

Tom you are exactly right. I’m looking to suppress some fields. So if hooks is the way to do it, than I need to learn more.

Is their a config file where this information is stored? Or can I do it from the web interface?

Thanks!

Hi!
Well my imaging is about halfway done for the 2016-17 school year. Now that I’m half way done, I have discovered that all of the machines that I have imaged have had issues with duplicate name entries on our Sophos server…

I followed these steps in this article https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/120560…

Now I ask the question, what is the easiest method to deploy Sophos without having to physically touch every machine?

Thanks!

Cheers,

Joe

That is the path for the inf file and the model name not name of printer…