Topics created by Ken Helleson

If your running Ubuntu you should have some type of file editor installed already. I would assume that it has that loaded.

When you open your terminal you will be a local prompt, if your paths arent set you will not be able to access the file directly.

you will need to

cd /
cd etc
cd network
sudo vi interfaces

It will bring up the file in the VI text editor. Hit the insert key and then arrow down to the last line and enter

FOG Server IP (This is just a remark to remember what your doing)

auto (the name of the NIC you are using. You can use IFCONFIG to view the NICS in the machine) in my case its
auto p4p1
iface p4p1 inet static
address (your server address)
netmask(Your server netmask)
gateway(Your server gateway)

It should be some form of this. Hope this helps.

When you select an option from the PXE menu, such as Full Host Registration and Inventory, FOG always uses the default bzImage. After a host is registered, you can specify which kernel to use for all tasks created and scheduled through the FOG web UI. If you have to manage multiple bzImage files for compatibility reasons, use the “Host kernel” setting for each host to specify the kernel that works best for that system. You can also group hosts, and update all host kernel settings for particular group of hosts. Just remember that groups in FOG 0.32 are a bit unusual. They are used for changing settings on all hosts in the group, but will not show your existing group settings.

Implementing link based server side sorting is not that hard. I’ve done it several times using the codebase in the EQdkp product. Client side sorting is a bit more complex and intensive trying to make it work on multiple browsers and slow computers.

As for recovering image numbers, it’s not a complex task, but does require some SQL queries. There is a very helpful and well-written forum thread about purging unwanted images and renumbering them based on whatever needs you want.

It involves getting the existing imageid, setting it to the new value, and then updating all hosts that had the old value with the new value. Easily doable from phpmyadmin or the command line, if you know basic SQL.

There is no easy way through the FOG UI to update the image numbers, but in FOG 0.33, I think we’ll be able to make custom pages and that’s one I’d gladly contribute to the FOG community.

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