Simply the option to set what the defaults myself.
Ex: When I click “Capture” I’d like “Schedule Shutdown after task completion” checked and “Wake on LAN” unchecked. Currently its set the opposite way. For purposes of documenting for my colleagues a simple procedure for capturing, I was hoping less steps would be possible if the presets are the way we want them. Its not a big deal I just thought it would good if there was a simple way to set that.
Or are those sub-options to the “Schedule task as a debug task” as they are radio buttons instead of boxes? Hopefully Tom will have some input.
I’d like to set the default “Advanced Settings” options when creating a new capture or deploy task.
Perhaps it is because they use the same menu for both types of tasks…it just doesn’t make sense in the context of capture…does that option do anything in the capture task?
That just doesn’t make sense to me. Why then is that in the capture not deployment task?
Okay…I guess I read the “Schedule instant deployment” in the capture task as capture on next ipxe boot. Are you saying the option is actually instantly deploy the image to some host immediately after its captured? I would have expected more options to follow that. Im a bit confused on this still.
@Wayne-Workman said in How do I change capture defaults?:
Capture: When you have a physical or virtual box configured the way you want, and want to create a copy of it. This involves FOG taking a copy from that box and putting the copy onto the FOG Server for later use. You are “Capturing” the image. Capture can only be initiated from the web interface.
Deploy: When you have an image stored on the FOG Server and you want to push it out, or deploy, to physical or virtual boxes elsewhere. You are “Deploying” the image out to systems. Deploy can be initiated from the web interface or the boot menu.
You’d adjust the image as you like by locating it in Image Management, clicking on it, and making your changes.
Yes, i agree. Its not hard at all to change the options every time we create a capture. I am writing some basic instructions for users on my team who will also be working with the FOG server and it would be nice to have as few steps as possible. We use this system in a very limited way…we only capture images on about 20 of our client PCs that are custom configurations so that in the event of a failure we can quickly restore. I’ve customized other areas like the ipxe boot menu to streamline it to just 2 options…I was hoping the capture tast defaults could be changed.
When I create a new capture task, I want the default options to be set to the options we always use instead of what’s pre-selected. Can they be changed?
I would like to change the default options selected for a new capture task. By default I’d like to only have the 2 following options checked: “Schedule shutdown after task completion” and “Schedule instant deployment”. How would I do this?
Also, I don’t understand why the term “deployment” is used for the capture task. Shouldn’t “capture” be used?
Love the solution though…FOG is great!
@Tom-Elliott Yes, “imaged to the server” meaning captured. Thanks for the correct reference Host=deployed, Images=Captured. I was looking at this a different way. We use FOG only for saving images of customized hosts (about 20) in our environment. Thanks!
I want the menu, just not the countdown. I would just like it to wait for my input without a time constraint. Any way to do that and keep the menu up?
Is there a way to remove the timeout completely?
I’m new to FOG. I just configured a FOG server for our site and it works great, however, under Host Management the column “Imaged” shows “No Data” for all the hosts listed. These are hosts I’ve imaged to the server over the past 3 days. What should this field display and where should I begin troubleshooting? Thanks!
I setup a FOG server at my work and it seems to work great. In this environment I cannot change the preexisting DHCP options and we have an existing SCCM server thats address is passed when booting a client from the network. To get around this problem the FOG host is on a vlan that doesn’t offer DHCP by the Windows environment. The FOG server provides DHCP so any client I want to image has to be moved to that vlan and this is a bit of a hassle. What I would like to do is have a USB stick to boot from and specify the FOG server so I can boot the client from the vlan its currently on. I created a USB boot but the PXE process still pulls the SCCM server address from DHCP. Is there a way I can override the SCCM server address being passed?
