Posts made by kafluke

Sounds great

Here is my setup.

FOG server version (and all Nodes) = 1.5.4
CentOS 7

I have 1 main server and then 3 storage nodes.
Park City Server is the master node and then there are three more sub nodes

• Park City Node
• Buffalo Node
• Dallas Node

The Buffalo Node seems to be in sync but the other two clearly aren’t. Here are screen shots from the dashboard. Shouldn’t all Used space be equal? I noticed that an image that I updated on the master node didn’t get replicated to Dallas when I imaged a computer there.

Here is my replication log:
https://pastebin.com/EjHuS5A8

@Sebastian-Roth Ctrl+C doesn’t work either. Yeah we have 35+ sites that have PBX’s on older machines. We are in the middle of a tech refresh right now and and we are replacing them with servers that have ILO’s so this won’t be an issue in the future. For now what I do is ship the site a remote KVM so I can at least perform maintenance without user interaction. It was over the weekend so all site personnel were gone. This issue can be closed now. I had someone just press the power button this morning. I was just trying to find another way over the weekend.

@Wayne-Workman Thank you, yes I know you cannot resize LVM partitions. I failed to pre-check the file system before starting the capture. When I noticed the capture size I canceled the task in the gui but the process continues on the remote machine. I’m trying to reboot but sending ctrl+alt+delete does nothing. This is an IP based external (not idrac or sp) KVM. It only has USB keyboard input and VGA capture. There are no power or reboot options in the console because its keyboard and mouse input only.

That’s why I’m asking the question, what key combo can I use to stop the partclone process? I could reboot from cli but I cant seem to exit partclone.

I noticed while doing a remote capture that the file system was LVM and so the partitions failed to shrink. I canceled the task on the FOG web gui but the remote server continues to try and send the capture. I’ve sent ctrl+alt+del as well as many other commands but partclone will not stop.

How do I cancel the process on the remote server? I’m using a remote KVM so I don’t have the option to power the server on or off. I can only send keyboard commands. Any suggestions to get this remote server to stop what it’s doing and simply reboot? The remote server is using CentOS 6.6

@tom-elliott Getting one host to work as expected in the group seems to have fixed all my issues. Now the changes I make are sticking after I leave the page. Thanks for your help.

@tom-elliott Great that fixed the location issue. Not to hijack my own thread but in further experimenting with groups I noticed that every printer that I automatically gets added to the group. Also it doesn’t seem to matter what changes I make on the printer tab, nothing is sticking. When I come back to the same tab after trying to remove printers or update settings its all back to defaults again.

I do have one host assigned to this group so I’m not sure what could be causing this issue.

@tom-elliott This is my first group. I’m just getting started with groups and just barely made my first one. As of right now there aren’t even any hosts associated with this group. I was just trying to get it ready to start putting hosts in there. I was just going through the various tabs for the group setting each section up and it won’t let me assign a location to this group.

Can you tell me where I can find that info? I looked through the logs at /var/log/httpd/access_log (CentOS) but I couldn’t identify any errors related to this.

Sorry I’m a Windows guy so I don’t know where to look for this info.

FOG version 1.5.4

I’m trying to update a group with a location association. Here’s the message I get when I hit “update” after selecting the proper location:

{“msg”:“Group updated!”,“title”:“Group Update Success”}

When I go back to that same screen next to “Location” it says " - Please select an option -"

In other words, it didn’t apply.

@tom-elliott Thanks Tom it now works again

@george1421 Yes manually registering through the gui works fine. I also completely deleted the whole directory where I temp stored the FOG install files forcing FOG to re-download everything fresh. Still didn’t work.

I am also unable to register any new hosts after updating today to 1.5.3. In the line just above where it asks for a hostname it has 4 errors:

jq: error (at <stdin>:0): Cannot index string with string “logicalname”
jq: error (at <stdin>:0): Cannot index string with string “logicalname”
jq: error (at <stdin>:0): Cannot index string with string “serial”
jq: error (at <stdin>:0): Cannot index string with string “serial”

If I try and register anyway it says no viable macs. I’ve tried installing from tar and also using the git pull. Any suggestions?

Went back to Fog Node’s instead of Windows and it’s working as expected now. You can resolve this.

@george1421 Setting up a webserver on 40+ sites is not really a viable solution. I may have to pitch some cheap boxes for nodes only and send them to the sites. Thanks anyway guys. This may be worth noting on this link

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Windows_Storage_Node

that replication will continuously occur over and over again.

@tom-elliott Is there any way to get these webfiles transferred over to a windows NAS? I was able to move the hidden linux files that are found in the image directory. When FOG syncs where does it look for these webfiles? I can mount them in a NFS directory if need be.

I’m using windows based machines for the storage nodes using NFS server. FOG is only running on the master node and the HDD is fine.

I have finally set up my perfect fog setup for our company. One main storage node and dozens of remote storage notes for fast imaging. I’ve used cron jobs to schedule the syncing and all that is working. Here’s my problem,

During the scheduled sync time I can see on the remote nodes that fog is replicating images and snapins that haven’t changes since last syncing. Over and over again. Why is FOG syncing files that are already there and haven’t changed?

@george1421 thank you so much! These are even the exact times that I needed to set the job for! You da man! This can be marked resolved now.

@wayne-workman Thanks for the reply. Like I mentioned in my OP I don’t know how to make a cron job to do this but I’ll look into it further. Thanks for the info.