@george1421

Thanks for the explanation. I come more from a Unix / Linux background where licensing is simpler. We use MAK for certain. We do not have KMS set up here.

We must use KMS. The keys we have we can re-use until the pool fills up. Then you have to release some. I’ll have to ask the other admin. Thanks!

@Wayne-Workman

Do the images need to be sysprepped in order to go the FOG client route?

@george1421

I’ll keep that in mind. I’m going to try the Trunk option that Wayne mentioned first.

No KMS here. I’m assuming it’s MAK. I’m the new guy still so I’m learning as I go.

Thanks!!

Cheers,

Joe Gill

@Wayne-Workman

Awesome!! I like that!! That’s what I did with our AD and it worked perfectly!

Thanks!!!

Man, I’m going to owe all you guys/gals in the FOG project a beer!

Cheers,

Joe Gill

The majority of our images in district are Windows 7 with MS Office 2016. I’m curious if their are any work arounds on Windows license activation after image. I do not use sysprep as I make an image per each iteration of hardware in our district.

Currently, I allow FOG to register host on domain. Then I log in each machine and register each machine on the internet with MS. We have volume licensing.

I mentioned setting up a license server to the senior admin in the district but he wasn’t too thrilled with the idea.

Any suggestions would be helpful!

I’m trying to shave every second off of this process as I can while still keeping it simple!

Cheers,

Joe Gill

@Wayne-Workman said in Bitrate Questions:

@Joe-Gill holy cow, 10 hours for 23 machines?

How big is your image? 37 GB

how fast are the switches for these computers? District wide – Mixed – Mostly 10/100/1000 but their are some 10/100 switches still out there. This particular lab had 10/100/1000 all the way to the server.

Link speed? 1000 on both ends.

Are these hosts all the same hardware? Yes

Same image for them all? Yes – Today’s group will be slightly larger image.

@Tom-Elliott

Thanks Tom!!

I’ll try that and see what happens. It took 10 hours last night to MultiCast images to 23 machines. Everything went good otherwise. All my tasks finished nicely! I’ll try the new setting and give it a try with 23 more today. They are on the same switch as the others so it’ll be a good test. And they are the same machine type.

Cheers!

Joe

I searched high and dry on the man pages on here and boy did I have a hard time locating anything specific to the bitrate settings in the GUI under Storage Nodes.

SO here is the deal… I have a mixed network with most things operating on GIG switches but I do still have a few connections that are 10/100 MBps. What is the suggested setting to limit slow connection issues? As I understand, multicasting will slow everything down to your slowest link.

I can unicast a room and achieve speeds of 3-10 GB/Min in particlone . I’m cloning a lab (same brand/model as the unicast) right now Multicast that’s on a gig switch all the way to the server that’s going at 53 MB/min (in particlone). All of these machines are gig capable.

Any advice here is helpful. I’m getting closer to really running with this stuff!

If their is a link to something in the man pages related to this, let me know. Thanks!!

Cheers,

Joe Gill

Thanks for checking things out Tom!

Looks like stopping and starting the service on both the Server and Fog Storage Node solved the problem. The hosts are happy and the task is going!

Cheers,

Joe Gill

@Tom-Elliott

lcarr@Fog:~$ service FOGMulticastManager stop; sleep 5; service FOGMulticastManager start
 * Stopping FOG Computer Imaging Solution: FOGMulticastManager                  start-stop-daemon: warning: failed to kill 1362: No such process

And hangs.

lcarr@Fog:~$ ps ax | grep udp
 3686 pts/3    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto udp

@Tom-Elliott

I spoke too soon!! I had a batch fail on me again…

/var/log/fog/multicast.log

[06-22-16 6:02:36 pm]  | Sleep time has changed to 10 seconds

:~$ ps aux | grep FOGMulti
lcarr     3670  0.0  0.0  15944  2284 pts/3    S+   14:50   0:00 grep --color=auto FOGMulti

Let me know if there are any steps you’d like me to try. I’ll be around until 5:30 MST this evening if you’d like to try and remote in. Thanks!!

Joe Gill

@Roger-Saffle

Do you know of any other method? We have about 20 that have been deployed already. I can get their mac address from the Google Admin panel but that just seems like lots of clicks.

Thanks for the heads up on the new devices though! That will help things out. I have a bar code scanner so we’re ahead of the game their!

Cheers,

Joe Gill

Hi all,

Does anyone know an easy way to get a list of MAC addresses from Google Accounts Admin App for Chromebooks? We are bringing on about 200 units this summer and we’re looking for an easy method to do this.

Thanks!!

Any advice is appreciated!

Cheers,

Joe Gill

Upate!!

We got this fixed. The FreNAS node on our storage group (not the master), was set to get it’s IP address by DHCP. The DHCP lease went up and the address changed. When this happened it caused this error to appear.

I reset the address on our FreeNAS node of our storage group, and everything works perfectly.

Moral of the story, do not set up any of your servers with DHCP addresses when you’ve got stuff pointing to said addresses!!

Thanks for making me think harder.

Cheers,

Joe Gill

@Tom-Elliott

[Wed Jun 22 08:53:58.320094 2016] [:error] [pid 11962] [client 172.16.18.207:51668] PHP Warning:  array_map(): An error occurred while invoking the map callback in /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/storagegroup.class.php on line 52
[Wed Jun 22 08:53:58.320250 2016] [:error] [pid 11962] [client 172.16.18.207:51668] PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Type: 8, File: /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/fogmanagercontroller.class.php, Line: 59, Message: Undefined variable: whereArray, Host: 172.16.200.173, Username: fog' in /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/fogftp.class.php:51\nStack trace:\n#0 /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/storagenode.class.php(102): FOGFTP->connect()\n#1 /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/fogcontroller.class.php(245): StorageNode->loadImages()\n#2 /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/fogcontroller.class.php(48): FOGController->loadItem('images')\n#3 /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/storagenode.class.php(41): FOGController->get('images')\n#4 /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/storagegroup.class.php(44): StorageNode->get('images')\n#5 [internal function]: StorageGroup->{closure}(Object(StorageNode))\n#6 /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/storagegroup.class.php(52): array_map(Object(Closure), Array)\n#7 /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/bootmenu.class.php(641): StorageGroup->getOptimalStorageNode('5')\n#8 /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/bootmenu.class.php(163): BootMenu->getTasking()\n#9  in /var/www/html/fog/lib/fog/fogftp.class.php on line 51

Any thoughts?

@Tom-Elliott

[Sun Jun 19 08:03:31.454992 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 22344] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.6.22-1+donate.sury.org~trusty+1 OpenSSL/1.0.1f configured -- re$
[Sun Jun 19 08:03:31.462241 2016] [core:notice] [pid 22344] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Mon Jun 20 07:27:24.706254 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 22344] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Jun 20 07:27:25.767771 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 7294] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.6.22-1+donate.sury.org~trusty+1 OpenSSL/1.0.1f configured -- res$
[Mon Jun 20 07:27:25.767820 2016] [core:notice] [pid 7294] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Mon Jun 20 07:34:59.025380 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 7294] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Jun 20 07:35:06.502871 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 7442] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.6.22-1+donate.sury.org~trusty+1 OpenSSL/1.0.1f configured -- res$
[Mon Jun 20 07:35:06.502919 2016] [core:notice] [pid 7442] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Mon Jun 20 07:38:22.854001 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 7442] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down
[Mon Jun 20 07:38:23.900776 2016] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 7500] AH00163: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.6.22-1+donate.sury.org~trusty+1 OpenSSL/1.0.1f configured -- res$
[Mon Jun 20 07:38:23.900820 2016] [core:notice] [pid 7500] AH00094: Command line: '/usr/sbin/apache2'
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:15.883037 2016] [:error] [pid 7932] [client 172.16.15.83:49706] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:15.883063 2016] [:error] [pid 7932] [client 172.16.15.83:49706] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:15.883072 2016] [:error] [pid 7932] [client 172.16.15.83:49706] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:15.883080 2016] [:error] [pid 7932] [client 172.16.15.83:49706] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:15.883086 2016] [:error] [pid 7932] [client 172.16.15.83:49706] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:15.883093 2016] [:error] [pid 7932] [client 172.16.15.83:49706] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:15.883726 2016] [:error] [pid 7932] [client 172.16.15.83:49706] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:15.883742 2016] [:error] [pid 7932] [client 172.16.15.83:49706] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:15.883750 2016] [:error] [pid 7932] [client 172.16.15.83:49706] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:15.883769 2016] [:error] [pid 7932] [client 172.16.15.83:49706] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:15.883776 2016] [:error] [pid 7932] [client 172.16.15.83:49706] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:15.883782 2016] [:error] [pid 7932] [client 172.16.15.83:49706] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:55.401526 2016] [:error] [pid 7997] [client 172.16.15.83:49726] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:55.401558 2016] [:error] [pid 7997] [client 172.16.15.83:49726] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:55.401568 2016] [:error] [pid 7997] [client 172.16.15.83:49726] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:55.401575 2016] [:error] [pid 7997] [client 172.16.15.83:49726] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:55.401581 2016] [:error] [pid 7997] [client 172.16.15.83:49726] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:55.401588 2016] [:error] [pid 7997] [client 172.16.15.83:49726] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:55.402232 2016] [:error] [pid 7997] [client 172.16.15.83:49726] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:55.402248 2016] [:error] [pid 7997] [client 172.16.15.83:49726] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:55.402256 2016] [:error] [pid 7997] [client 172.16.15.83:49726] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:55.402263 2016] [:error] [pid 7997] [client 172.16.15.83:49726] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:55.402280 2016] [:error] [pid 7997] [client 172.16.15.83:49726] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:54:55.402287 2016] [:error] [pid 7997] [client 172.16.15.83:49726] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:56:29.588122 2016] [:error] [pid 7506] [client 172.16.15.83:49790] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:56:29.588148 2016] [:error] [pid 7506] [client 172.16.15.83:49790] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:56:29.588157 2016] [:error] [pid 7506] [client 172.16.15.83:49790] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
[Mon Jun 20 09:56:29.588165 2016] [:error] [pid 7506] [client 172.16.15.83:49790] PHP Warning:  array_count_values(): Can only count STRING and INTEGER values! in /var$
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@Tom-Elliott