Posts made by r.pawlowski

@george1421 Thanks, I didn’t know “FOG” has api. I will check that out.
@JJ-Fullmer Lovely, if I need some help I prompt you
I need to get to know Api and see what I can build on that.

Hi, I have a question. I will outline what our plan is. We are deploying image on many machines sometimes even up a 100 a week. We are looking for a solution to speed up the process. We came up with an idea. We are going to set up Arduino which is going to change BIOS settings ( enable network boot, ect) and at the end is starting boot from network and triggering fog server to get chosen image to deploy. In the past with help from @george1421
we did implement “Hands off Fog deployment” which could be enough we have to go to the menu settings type proper image id and all is ready to go but we want to set up Arduino, create web interface to have some type of control over it, because they are different type of BIOS and we to have a list to choose from for Arduino and we want through web trigger image deploy with Image id we want.

1. Through Web Interface we choose Bios for device and image id
2. Arduino is setting BIOS
3. Computer reboots and boots via network.
4. Image with Id form point nr 1 is deployed

• My question is can we trigger fog through URL ?
• We could also ssh server and trigger fog server localy ?
• Or maybe there is better way to do this ?

@george1421

Thanks for some advise what to look and search for. I will dig into CCTK for sure. I unserstand there are many things to do and there is no time Good Luck and Thanks !!!

@george1421 said in Question abou speeding up Fog server.:

Are we talking bios settings as in enabling pxe booting or changing the uefi boot order? What hardware vendor is in question here?

About BIOS settings. To my mind there is no way to automate that. We mostly deploy Dell and Minix computers. But on the bright side, half of the job go away becaouse of “hands off deployment menu”

@george1421

Hi. The solution works great. In a manu appears “Hands off deployment” to which is assigned image :). But you have to still choose by moving arrows and pressing enter. But i have figured out a way to omit that. In the fog GUI there is an option to choose this menu as a default so after deploying image always the chosen one going to be " hand off deployment". And after 3 secunds image is deployed. I can reduce from 3 secunds to 1 secund. So now is almost “hands free” except BIOS settings. Well I think the initial idea has been completed succesfully Thanks

@george1421

Hi George, thanks for help and engagement. I will give it a try in the next week an see if it works.

Hi!
\We have fog server currently installed in our location. We deploy dozens of computers. Mainly we use fog to install Windows on computers. And my question is. … To use network boot we have to change BIOS/ UEFI settings to enable network stack/ IPv4 protocol and after we can actually deploy fog. After entering network-boot we see fog default page, we have to select deploy image, then type password and at the end select desired image. Is there a way to skip these steps? Once we have changed BIOS settings, the rest of the configuration should be automatic with the default image. Is that possible ?

I would be so thankful for some help or ideas.