Posts made by Lee Rowlett

Hi,

i have got it working but had to write a seperate query to get hostname. it is hard to write a step by step as you can customize it to however you want and use any mail protocol, i am using sendmail/mailutils - below is what i did.

edit the file …/fog/service/Post_Stage3.php

just before line: echo “##”; write you’re mail function i.e.

if ( checkOut( $conn, $jobid ) )
{
[B]mail(“emailaddress@tosendto”,“$hostname - Image Task Completed”, “$hostname has been successfully imaged”);[/B]
echo “##”;

// Now update the imaging log.
@logImageTask( $conn, “e”, $hostid );

if you would like to get the hostname in the email - you have to include this, it is another query and there may be a cleaner way to do this but for now put this anywhere before the if statement put…

$hst = “SELECT hostName FROM hosts WHERE hostID like '”.$hostid.“'”;
$res1 = mysql_query( $hst, $conn ) or die( mysql_error() );
$ar1 = mysql_fetch_object($res1);
$hostname = $ar1->hostName;

optional:
on the server install sendmail/mailutils
apt-get install sendmail
apt-get install mailutils

recommend stopping sendmail running a daemon.

hope this helps

…thanks for the guidance Fernando

The PXE file hasn’t the hostname

want to try and avoid writing a new query but unless you got any other idea?.. thanks for the help btw

this didn’t work hostname is blank

of course!! thank you, as I say stupid mental block! lol

hi, got this working perfectly now thanks for pointing me in the right direction! the only thing i need to do in Post_Stage3.php is get the hostname to put into the mail function as Post_Stage3.php only pulls hostid and i’m having a complete mental block on how to get hostname without creating a new function or mysql connection. i know the functions there but cannot remember! lol

0.33 already has some alternative for changing the hostname by making changes using reg files. (HOSTNAME EARLY) this would conflict with this and i don’t it’s being included in 0.33. it would be same process and code for 0.33 though

I’m in the same boat as with bash experience - anybody got any ideas how to debug this?

There is already a tutorial, admittedly abit lengthy:
[url]http://fogproject.org/forum/threads/hostname-change-joining-domain-before-sysprep-runs-xp-win7.3332/#post-7964[/url]

I can talk you through it if you want.

“re: “It would be awesome to include the option of tweaking sysprep.inf / unattend.xml to change the hostname and join an AD before booting the computer after deployment.” We use Powershell for that. The Unattend.xml does it all, we log into the desktop and run our Finalize.ps1 which enables and sets a password for the local administrator account, joins the computer to the domain and restarts the computer.”

I use FOG to change the unattend.xml before it reboots after imaging so before it even boots into sysprep all options are set as needed and jsut let sysprep take care of it all - never fails and requires no additional reboots after imaging (like changing hostname, adding to domain) because it’s already all correct before booting into windows

actually scrap that, because it mounts the device… it’s this if statement that seems to be the culprit…

if [ “$?” = “0” ]; then

nothing has been modified to affect this as far as i can see however when uploading windows 7 it does not even echo “removing page file” etc like the settings would suggest… so for some reason it’s not detecting $ignorepg is set to 1 but only for win7/8!?!, may remove the if statement and test this. will come back to you…

[FONT=Ubuntu][COLOR=#333333]FOG_UPLOADIGNOREPAGEHIBER is set to 1 and this is the code in init.gz fog script.[/COLOR][/FONT]

if [ “$ignorepg” = “1” ]; then
#if [ “$osid” != “5” ]; then
echo -n " * Mounting device…“;
mkdir /ntfs &>/dev/null
ntfs-3g -o force,rw $part /ntfs
if [ “$?” = “0” ]; then
echo “Done”;
echo -n " * Removing page file…”;
rm -f “/ntfs/pagefile.sys”;
echo “Done”;

echo -n " * Removing hibernate file…";
rm -f “/ntfs/hiberfil.sys”
echo “Done”;

umount /ntfs;
else
echo “Failed”;
fi
#fi
fi

thanks for the info but i was hoping to keep it enabled but remove it from the image and let windows regenerate it after it imaged. if not will do this for hibernation but will still need to tackle the pagefile.sys

doesn’t seem to be - using generalize and unattend

…just to add to this it also doesn’t delete the hibernation file either C:\pagefile.sys & C:\hiberfil.sys are adding 8GB to the image size! i’m assuming it’s to do with the multi partitions - what would be the best way to manually delete these before uploading to fog? maybe utilising fog debug? any help would be muchly appreciated!

Hi all,

I’ve noticed when uploading a windows 7 image the pagefile does not get removed like it does with XP… is there any reason why as we’re trying to keep the image as small as possible!

Thanks

FOG Code in the init

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Hi All,

just to let you know i’ve successfully been able to backup users profile before imaging.

FOG takes a direct copy of doc and settings (xp) or users (win7/8) - images the machine then pulls the backup back down to the newly machine under root C:\MachineName-UserBackup

helps not to lose data if no folder redirection is setup. if anyone interested i can post the mods you need to make to the init.gz…

also if considered for main fog code was thinking maybe have a tick box under host to say whether to choose whether to backup or not. thoughts?