@JYost said in Remotely imaging a laptop using FOG:
Now that I’m looking at it I see exactly what you mean about going in and pre-creating the HOST.
This is referred to as manually registering the host. The only bit of information that may be problematic is the target computer’s MAC address. If you have the mac address then you an just go into the web ui and add a new host and enter its name, image, mac address via the web ui. You won’t get the full inventory right away, but there will be enough information to pxe boot the target computer. If the fog client is already running on the target computer, when you create a deploy task the target computer will reboot, or power on if WOL is enabled on the target computer. But to do this, the target computer needs to be configured to boot through PXE to the FOG menu every time. If there is nothing to do the target computer will continue on booting from the local hard drive.
ALSO, if the fog client is installed on the target computer BUT the target computer is not registered in FOG the target computer will be added to the FOG server in the pending state. You will need to approve the target computer to have it added to the inventory. You will still need to set the image name but you should have a near hands off registration.
