Posts made by kelly.bettendorf

Hello everyone,

Ive been trying to learn how to create snapins and i’m looking for a current and detailed how to guide. I have never created any sort of a push our silent installer application before so this is all new to me.

Im also looking to find out what applications are commonly used when creating the snapin.

If there is any supporting information i should learn before attempting to create the snapins again? any links would be appreciated.

So far all i’ve been able to get FOG to successful push out the snapin file to the root of the hard drive of the targeted host.

Im also not fully understanding how to configure the silent install to run once FOG has deployed the snap in.

Im am currently running FOG Ver 1.1.2 ( waiting for spring to upgrade)

Thanks in advanced!

Hi,

Ive been testing the use of FOG for printer management i’ve found that it installs printers well but when i remove one from the list it will stay installed on the Host computer and keep reinstalling itself even if manually removed in windows 7

I have on my test host, printer management enabled with add and remove

Any idea why FOG is unable to remove a printer that i took out of the hosts printer list?

Ive also found that i can only remove/keep removed the printer from the host with the following command
[SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#333333]rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /gd /n\[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][I][SIZE=14px][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#333333]server\printername. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/I]

It will just reinstall every time i restart or login again if i don’t use that command to remove it.

Thanks all.

Im running FOG on ubuntu 12.04 LTS
version 1.1.2
Printers are added to FOG for management using the network printer option

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 34579, member: 7271”]This is a known issue and has been fixed in 1.2.0[/quote]

Fantastic thanks! with only a few weeks left in summer im holding off on jumping to 1.2.0 im glad to hear its not just me with another far out there issue.

Thanks again.

Hi all,

For some reason when i go to fog/fog/client to download the client or FOG prep file i find that the webpage does not load all the time.

It loads to a blank page with the FOG icon in the left corner but the download links are not always available any idea why this might be happening?

Im running FOG 1.1.2 on Ubuntu 12.04LTS

Thanks again.

Thanks all I was on the right path but now i’ve got it working just right thanks for the help!
Incase it helps anyone else here is the FirstLogin Commands i use to auto activate windows 7 OS and Microsoft office 2010 using sysprep

[CODE] <FirstLogonCommands>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action=“add”>
<CommandLine>cscript /b c:\windows\system32\slmgr.vbs /ato</CommandLine>
<Order>1</Order>
<RequiresUserInput>false</RequiresUserInput>
<Description>Act OS</Description>
</SynchronousCommand>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action=“add”>
<Order>2</Order>
<CommandLine>cscript “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\ospp.vbs” /act</CommandLine>
<RequiresUserInput>false</RequiresUserInput>
<Description>Act Offfice</Description>
</SynchronousCommand>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action=“add”>
<CommandLine>sc config “FOG Service” start= auto</CommandLine>
<Order>4</Order>
<Description>Change FOG service from delay to Automatic</Description>
</SynchronousCommand>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action=“add”>
<CommandLine>timeout 20</CommandLine>
<Description>Pause for 20 seconds</Description>
<Order>3</Order>
</SynchronousCommand>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action=“add”>
<Order>5</Order>
<Description>Enable the fog service</Description>
<CommandLine>net start “FOG Service”</CommandLine>
</SynchronousCommand>
</FirstLogonCommands>[/CODE]

[quote=“kelly.bettendorf, post: 33689, member: 5100”]Hi all.

I have an interesting issue were i believe FOG fog auto join to AD is shutting down my newly imaged systems without my sysprep file finishing all of its first time login commands.

Has anyone else had issues with this?

is there a way i can delay how quickly fog renames and joins the computer to AD to give it some more time to load all the first time login scripts?

Im running Fog 1.1.2

Im using sysprep to run a first time login script with the local admin account to activate our installation of office 2010.

Im running two login scripts, 1 that activates the OS and and 2nd that activates Office 2010.

Thanks![/quote]

TO add some more detail,

when i don’t have auto join to AD enabled on my testbox all of my first time login scripts run as they should.
Ive added a 30 second timeout command at the end to see if that makes any difference.

I will test and report back my findings.

Hi all.

I have an interesting issue were i believe FOG fog auto join to AD is shutting down my newly imaged systems without my sysprep file finishing all of its first time login commands.

Has anyone else had issues with this?

is there a way i can delay how quickly fog renames and joins the computer to AD to give it some more time to load all the first time login scripts?

Im running Fog 1.1.2

Im using sysprep to run a first time login script with the local admin account to activate our installation of office 2010.

Im running two login scripts, 1 that activates the OS and and 2nd that activates Office 2010.

Thanks!

[quote=“Junkhacker, post: 31972, member: 21583”]update to 1.1.2[/quote]

AH okay, planning to do that later this afternoon.
Thanks for answering so many of my questions Junkhacker, its been a lot of help.

Hi,

Running FOG 1.0.0 when at the Hosts Management page if i search for a registered host i get an error that the search failed.

I can still see all hosts when i go to list all registered hosts.

Whoo i figured it out, i didn’t have the columns in the right order.

All right so i found the example format by downloading a blank .csv of the hosts.

Now i get an error message for [SIZE=13px][FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#555555]Row #1: Invalid number of cells[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

I have column A as “[SIZE=2]Host ID” followed by a value of 1 counting up by one for all [/SIZE]registered[SIZE=2] computers[/SIZE]

When you say the hosts page are you talking about the GUI “manage hosts” pages on fog 1.0.0? because i don’t see it.

Sorry i feel like i’m missing something superbasic on were this example is located.

Thanks for the help.

When importing hosts.csv file from FOG .32 to FOG 1.0.0 I get an error message:

Row#1-Row#1404 Invalid number of cells.

On FOG.32 i went to reports tab, hosts, and downloaded the report.

any idea why it wont upload to FOG 1.0.0?

thanks

Hi all,

Been having a few issues with FOG client after i upgraded but i’m quite certain its something i’ve messed up and i can’t find my mistake so i figured its best to reinstall. so im trying a fresh clean install of both ubuntu 12.04 LTS and FOG 1.1.2

What is the best (cleanest) way to copy over the registered Hosts list and image database information?

Im not concerned with moving uploaded images i have FOG mount to a different hard drive for that but i would like to keep the list of image ID’s connected to the images.

I can’t begin to express how amazing FOG is, thank you to all who have made this possible.
Thanks.

Okay so here is what my .fogsettings looks like

[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]ipaddress=“10.40.224.90”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]interface=“eth1”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]routeraddress=" option routers 10.40.240.1;“;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]plainrouter=“10.40.240.1”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]dnsaddress=” option domain-name-servers 10.40.32.10; ";[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]dnsbootimage=“10.40.32.10”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]password=“e50a63”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]osid=“2”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]osname=“Debian”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]dodhcp=“N”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]bldhcp=“0”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]installtype=“N”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]snmysqluser=“root”[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]snmysqlpass=“e50a63”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]snmysqlhost=“localhost”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]installlang=“0”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]donate=“0”;[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]fogupdateloaded=“1”[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

Ive now updated to fog 1.1.2 and the log file now shows.

[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:48 PM * Starting FOG.UserTracker[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:48 PM FOG::UserTracker Starting user tracking process…[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::UserCleanup Starting user cleanup process…[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::HostRegister Exiting because only 1 mac address was found.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::DisplayManager Attempting to connect to fog server…[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::UserCleanup Attempting to connect to fog server…[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::printerManager Attempting to connect to fog server…[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::SnapinClient Sleeping for 446 seconds.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::UserTracker Attempting to connect to fog server…[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::DisplayManager Unknown error, module will exit.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::UserTracker Unknown error, module will exit.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::UserCleanup General Error Returned: [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::UserCleanup #!er:No Host Found[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::printerManager General Error Returned: [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::printerManager #!er:No Host Found[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::AutoLogOut Unknown error, module will exit.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::HostnameChanger General Error Returned: [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]
[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000] 6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::HostnameChanger #!er:No Host Found[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]6/26/2014 3:49 PM FOG::HostnameChanger Host name was not found in the database.​[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]-----------------Not sure why i keep getting Host name not found in database. [/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]

I also have no issue registering hosts when PXE booting, I have no problem capturing and deploying images. Just the FOG client seems to not see the FOG host database.

Okay, ive updated the config file and its still not working.

just to be clear:
[I][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]password=“*****”; ------ What password is this referring to? displays some random values that i did not configure? #######This refers to the linux fog user on your FOG Server.[/COLOR][/FONT][/I]

This is the password used to login to ubuntu at the users login screen? or am i mistaken.

Any other ideas of what else could cause this issue?

Thanks i will update and see if this resolves my issue.

will report back

Could this issue be related to settings in,

the /opt/fog/.fogsettings file?

Looking through the .fogsettings file it looks like there might be some inaccurate information but im not totally sure whats wrong.

[SIZE=16px][FONT=Calibri][COLOR=#000000]## Created by the FOG Installer

Version: 1.1.1

Install time: Mon 16 Jun 2014 09:30:27 AM PDT

ipaddress=“10.40.224.90”;
interface=“eth1”;
routeraddress=" option routers 10.40.240.1;“;
plainrouter=“10.40.240.1”;
dnsaddress=” option domain-name-servers 10.40.32.10; “;
dnsbootimage=“10.40.32.10”;
password=”*****“; ------ What password is this referring to? displays some random values that i did not configure
osid=“2”;
osname=“Debian”;
dodhcp=“N”;
bldhcp=“0”;
installtype=“N”;
snmysqluser=”“------------------------------------------------------------- should this be “root” or localprofile?
snmysqlpass=”****“;------------------------------------------------------ The mysql password setup during install?
snmysqlhost=”";------------------------------------------------------------Would this be the localprofile fog was installed with?
installlang=“0”;
donate=“0”;
fogupdateloaded=“1”[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE]