I was afraid of that. The good thing is that the laptops are under warranty so I can get the NIC’s fixed. so in the end things will work out. I think it is a good plan to NOT to worry about iPXE and wifi. Keep the core product working as it does and in the end outliers will find other methods.
Mark
As we have been fogging our school’s laptops we have found several that do not have a working wired NIC. Is there anyway to Fog a laptop over a wireless connection? I know there may be a performance issue, but with less than 10 laptops we should be able to knock them off in a day or two.
Fog 1.2
Windows 7
Ubuntu 12.04LTS server
Before I try Tom’e suggestion I wanted to update the thread. I found a forum thread about issues with the DC7800 from June, 2014. The solution provided was to replace undionly.kpxe with undionly.kkpxe. It worked for that user and another user stated they had not had issues with DC7800’s. I tried the change and I get the same error as before.
Tom. the fact you mentioned a frame/console buffer had me check my video of the error messages and I see that there is an error message “Could not configure Console Invalid Argument”. This adds weight to your suggestion. However before I proceed I need to determine how many of these PC’s I have to Fog and if it is a single device causing the error of a whole group. No need to spend hours on one device if that is the only one effected.
Here’s and update. It is not the Fog installation because I can Fog other devices. So it must be something specific to the PC. It is an HP Compaq DC7800 small form factor. I will do some research in the forums to see if I can find out what it could be.
When I say the output is a text file, what I meant was that a text file was displayed in the browser window. I copied it:
[SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000]#!ipxe
cpuid --ext 29 && set arch x86_64 || set arch i386
colour --rgb 0xff6600 2
cpair --foreground 7 --background 2 2
console --picture [url]http://192.168.1.30/fog/service/ipxe/bg.png[/url] --left 100 --right 80
:MENU
menu
colour --rgb 0xff0000 0
cpair --foreground 0 3
item --gap Host is NOT registered!
item --gap – -------------------------------------
item fog.local Boot from hard disk
item fog.memtest Run Memtest86+
item fog.reginput Perform Full Host Registration and Inventory
item fog.reg Quick Registration and Inventory
item fog.sysinfo Client System Information (Compatibility)
choose --default fog.local --timeout 3000 target && goto ${target}
:fog.local
sanboot --no-describe --drive 0x80 || goto MENU
:fog.memtest
kernel memdisk iso raw
initrd memtest.bin
boot || goto MENU
:fog.reginput
kernel bzImage32 root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 ip=dhcp dns= keymap= web=192.168.1.30/fog/ consoleblank=0 loglevel=4 mode=manreg
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
:fog.reg
kernel bzImage32 root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 ip=dhcp dns= keymap= web=192.168.1.30/fog/ consoleblank=0 loglevel=4 mode=autoreg
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
:fog.sysinfo
kernel bzImage32 root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=127000 ip=dhcp dns= keymap= web=192.168.1.30/fog/ consoleblank=0 loglevel=4 mode=sysinfo
imgfetch init_32.xz
boot || goto MENU
autoboot
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[SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000]So if I understand correct when you say:[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=13px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#141414]All the error you’re seeing means is that the ipxe.iso you have does not have the command tools built into it.[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=13px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#141414]You are talking about the ISO I used on the live CD, which is not the same as the using the ipxe in Fog?[/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000][SIZE=13px][FONT=Tahoma][COLOR=#141414][/COLOR][/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR][/SIZE]
[FONT=Tahoma]I am doing some more troubleshooting this morning and see if I can narrow down what is happening. One think I will do is try to Fog a client that was Fogged last week.[/FONT]
Since September I have been having no issues with FOG until today. When I tried to Fog a client I get an IP address then after some text flashes across the screen I see something to the effect "cannot boot: invalid argument ipxe.org/1c1c2002. At ipxe.org that error is unsurprisingly invalid argument.
I did some troubleshooting by using some test that Junkhacker recommended in the thread “PXE issues?”
Next bit of troubleshooting. I booted from a ipxe live cd. I issued the dhcp command to get an address then the chain command in the default.ipxe file. I got the following error:
colour:command not found
could not boot: Exec format error([url]http://ipxe.org/2e022001[/url])
At ipxe that error is an improper command or argument. Checking the php doc I got in step 3 above I see the command [SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000]colour --rgb 0xff0000 0[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000]Did something change so the English way of spelling no longer works? How can I correct this issue? Or am I missing something else?[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000]version 1.20 on ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS server[/COLOR][/SIZE]
[SIZE=4][COLOR=#000000]Mark[/COLOR][/SIZE]
I should have known that. Thanks it fixed that issue.
I forgot to say I am using Fog 1.10 and the computer is running Windows7. The image was created using VMware workstation. Anything else that could help let me know.
After Fog has imaged a computer it does not change the name or join the domain. I have Fog services on delayed start. Here is a section of the log file with the error for namechanger about joining the domain:
6/16/2014 2:28 PM FOG::HostnameChanger Attempting to connect to fog server…
6/16/2014 2:28 PM FOG::HostnameChanger Module is active…
6/16/2014 2:28 PM FOG::HostnameChanger AD mode requested, confirming settings.
6/16/2014 2:28 PM FOG::HostnameChanger Could not find any recognizable digits.
6/16/2014 2:28 PM FOG::HostnameChanger at System.ParseNumbers.StringToInt(String s, Int32 radix, Int32 flags, Int32* currPos)
at System.Convert.ToByte(String value, Int32 fromBase)
at FOG.FOGCrypt.hexToByte(String hex)
at FOG.FOGCrypt.decryptHex(String hex)
at FOG.HostNameChanger.changeHostName()
I verified that the default domain settings are there and correct (just username not domain\username) what am I missing?
Tom,
Of course. However I didn’t think it through all the way. Right now the only service I use is joining the AD. In the future I would like to get snapins working, but so far multiple images has worked for me.
I was having enough issues getting Fog to run, I didn’t want to try using 14.04. Now that Fog is working as it should maybe I will try the newer version. As for hardware I am using VMware 5.1 on a HP DL380G6. Each Fog VM gets 2vCPU and 8GB of RAM. I will post the results when I get the chance to try 14.04.
Just a note, There has been a lot of chatter on the forum about Ubuntu 14.04LTS and issues with FOG. For me it was not worth the risk and I am using 13.10.
Duh! No wonder I have been having the same issue. I forgot Fog Service in the Image.
[quote=“BPSTravis, post: 27852, member: 22444”]Option 67 needs to be undionly.kpxe for any fog version past .32(AKA 1.0.1) If you installed Today, i’m assuming you installed 1.0.1.[/quote]
[B]Where is this documented?[/B] No wonder I am not able to connect I never changed the prelinux.0. Is it any wonder there is frustration??? I just checked the wiki again and the only pages I could find all talk about older versions of FOG. The managing Fog page is version 0.29.
My ‘new’ laptops are refurbs. I never purchase brand new stuff. I was able to FOG our Dell E6410 with 0.32. I am still working on getting 1.01 working.
[quote=“RobertD, post: 27229, member: 20512”]Hello Community FOG Gurus!
I work for a very large school district in Texas. We are implementing FOG as our new imaging system and so far everything is working out great (Love the system so far). We have customized the setup so the images are stored on our NAS as opposed to setting up multiple fog server storage servers. We did this for sheer reasons of speed and redundancy.
These are the specs of the server FOG is installed on:
HP DL380 G8
E5-2430 (6 Core/12 Threads)
6 - 500 GB 7200RPM Drives (RAID 10)
12GB Ram
Ubuntu 12.04
My concern is the Fog service. We have added it to our new images, but will this server and MySQL be able to handle 20-30,000 devices checking in all the time? (We also changed the checkintime in the ini file to 999.)
This is probably a question better suited for the Ubuntu forums, but is there an easy way to monitor CPU usage, network connections, etc from command line or will I need to install a GUI to do this?[/quote]
Very large indeed. I guess everything in Texas is bigger.
For monitoring I have just started using an open source project netxms. It can install an agent, read the Windows WMI data or SNMP data. I have not tried monitoring a Linux server, however I think there is an agent… I am mostly interested in traffic so I monitor the switch ports. Netxms has thresholds and can generate alerts. However a lot of the documentation is not completed or even available. it has been up and running for a couple of weeks and while there have been glitches I have found some work arounds. On the positive side I found a workstation with a bad NIC or some software issues that was spewing out almost 80 mps.
I hope this helps.
I have downloaded Ubuntu 13.04 and will load it today. I’m sure with the help on this forum I will get moved to the new version of FOG.
I thought I remember reading about removing some of the unused/unneeded services from FOG. I am a firm believer in software doing one thing and doing it great and not dong a dozen things well. On our network I have many servers that only do one thing like DHCP, print manger, single app server. I feel it is better for optimization and troubleshooting then having one server do multiple things.[/quote]
I thought it was better to reply to this thread then start a new one. If that was not the case I apologize.
To be clear this is a Ubuntu issue(bug) not Fog, that I understand and of course you can’t fix a broken Ubuntu? I know I have had other issues with how Ubuntu does things and have had to work around them. So what I am looking for is how to workaround for something that is not working. If it involves doing a fresh install I can do it.
So to summarize what I hear is the recommendations: