We are in the middle of moving away from Altiris and have been trying to see if FOG fits the bill. Because of the environment we are in we do not have access to the network’s DHCP server. We figured we would try FOG in an isolated network before trying to get it working else where.
We are running Debian Jessie with FOG 1.2.0 setup according to this wiki page. PXE booting, image uploading and downloading all work fine, but FOG doesn’t seem to change the hostname once the image download is complete even though the FOG client service is installed on the image (Windows 10 based).
So a couple questions:
- Does FOG need to be able to resolve the hostnames in order to instruct the client to change the hostname?
- Is it possible to change the hostname without using the client service?
- Is the hostname changer dependent on active directory joining being successful?
I think we’ve just missed something obvious. I would appreciate being pointed in the right direction.