Posts made by Robbie McHugh

Hi Wayne,

Fantastic thank you just what I needed

Cheers
Robbie

Server

• FOG Version: 120
• OS: Ubuntu 10.04

Description

Hi all, was just wondering is there a way to truncate the user login hist table, I’m not the best with mysql and it has grown considerably due to the size of the company so rather than upping max mem in php.ini thought I would have a clean up

Just in the process of building a new environment but wanted to undertake this to allow some of the support guys to use the user history to identify what machines they are using.

As always thanks in advance,
Robbie

facepalm

Didn’t read any further than “browser” before realizing I have been a fool

Many thanks for the reply, been mad busy and missed the obvious, you know what its like when a fresh pair of eyes saves you from throwing a mouse across the room at an innocent, you have potentially saved someone a trip to the emergency room

Hi all not posted in a while but hope you are all well

Any suggestions as to what I should check to resolve the following issue would be great, basically if I want to check a machine to add it to AD the AD Defaults are not automatically populating the specific fields. This is happening in both Host Management and Group Management meaning I have to manually provide the OU, Domain and credentials to complete the task. Everything else is as always working like a charm

Currently using build 1.2.0, will have to check what SVN as I have been away recently and have a mind like a sieve

Many thanks
Robbie

Hey guys,

Thanks for the replies, I can give it a go sure thing, everything else by the way is working like a charm

Hi all, odd issue. In Image management the size on server is stating 0gb, I have pushed an image up and it shows image size so a little confused. I am just checking that I can push the images out correctly and will keep you posted.

Just wondered if anyone else was getting this in 1.2.0

Cheers
Robbie

[quote=“Tom Elliott, post: 32984, member: 7271”]If you don’t know how to get the Encoded password:

Here’s how (useful if you wanted to script all of this):
Autologin password is the password with a salt of “Password”

So you can run:
[code]base64 ‘mypasswordHerePassword’[/code] And the value that generates is what you would put in the <Value>YOUR ENCRYPTED PASSWORD</Value>

For the AdministratorPassword stanza, the same is true but the salt is “AdministratorPassword” so:
[code]base64 ‘mypasswordHereAdministratorPassword’[/code] And the value that generates is what you would put in the <Value>YOUR ENCRYPTED PASSWORD</Value>

For the LocalAccount password is the same with salt as the AutoLogin with a salt of “Password”

Hope this helps you all out.[/code][/quote]

My bad orgot to mention something to that end, just bolded the <Value>YOUR ENCRYPTED PASSWORD</Value> to make it a little easier to read

In your unattend.xml do you have <autologon> set correctly and a logon count defined, also the <localaccounts> here you determine the user account that will log on and the number of times it automaticaly logs on, I have mine set for 2, first one for fog to rename host and the second to add to domain, the third boot cycle leaves the workstation at the logon screen prompting for the end users credentials, completely unattended with no user intervention required. Also what steps do you thin are being missed, sorry If I am misreading your problem here

Should look something like this.

        <AutoLogon>
            <Password>
                <Value>[B]YOUR ENCRYPTED PASSWORD[/B]</Value>
                <PlainText>false</PlainText>
            </Password>
            <Enabled>true</Enabled>
            <LogonCount>2</LogonCount>
            <Username>administrator</Username>
        </AutoLogon>
        <OOBE>
            <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage>
            <HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>true</HideWirelessSetupInOOBE>
            <NetworkLocation>Home</NetworkLocation>
            <ProtectYourPC>1</ProtectYourPC>
        </OOBE>
        <UserAccounts>
            <AdministratorPassword>
                <Value>[B]YOUR ENCRYPTED PASSWORD[/B]</Value>
                <PlainText>false</PlainText>
            </AdministratorPassword>
            <LocalAccounts>
                <LocalAccount wcm:action="add">
                    <Password>
                        <Value>[B]YOUR ENCRYPTED PASSWORD[/B]</Value>
                        <PlainText>false</PlainText>
                    </Password>
                    <Description>Local Administrator</Description>
                    <DisplayName>Administrator</DisplayName>
                    <Group>Administrators</Group>
                    <Name>Administrator</Name>
                </LocalAccount>
            </LocalAccounts>
        </UserAccounts>

Hope this helps

Regards
Robbie

Simple logical fix, as always thanks for the continued progress guys

[quote=“phm2000, post: 30903, member: 24664”]Hi

I have same problem.
My dell optiplex 780 (I update bios to last version) work with pxe and fog 0.32, but I update with fog 1.1.1 and ipxe fail like you (error on line Congfiguring (net0 [MAC])
Same problem with HP 430 G1

An old dell latitude d630 works with ipxe

Is it a kernel problem or just ipxe ?

Thanks for help

Ubuntu 10.04[/quote]

Bit weird as the D630 works, I know that the 780 works fine with the latest Kernel as I have a lot of 780’s still in production. Usually if I have a problem with specific machines not booting I try a different Kernel with success, is definitely worth trying as it only take a few seconds to change.

Give the Kernel change a go, hope this helps

Robbie

[quote=“Wolfbane8653, post: 30806, member: 3362”]That means you are on the release of v1.1.1. The node problem is a gui/mysql bug. This is just a cosmetic bug and will not effect the storage node functionality. This show be fixed in the next release. It may not be fixed in the next revision.[/quote]

Hi Wolfbane,

Yeah I thought so as I was more than happy with the replication results and the fact that everything worked, Graphs dont bother me too much as I rarely look at the gui

Been having a think, I have two sites that are linked by a stretched LAN and are around 2 miles apart, I have a storage node on Site B and the FOG Server on site A, do you think it would benefit more setting up the second node as a separate storage group and allocating the images stored on it to the machines on Site B. Thinking it would be a better way as opposed to pulling the images across the link. I can create additional storage nodes to facilitate multi-cast jobs on each site or is it a bit overkill?

Obviously I would have to have dedicated images for each site but as I have one image that caters for the 4 desktop models and 3 laptop models its not to messy.

Be interesting to see what your thoughts are.

Cheers
Rob

Hi Wolfbane,

Version installed was from main download section, not sure how to find my exact revision but will have a look in a min

Although replication is working, still get the “failed to connect to” on the dashboard, not too much of a concern though

Sorry just being a fool, for some reason the FOGImageReplicator service had not started, all working now yay

Are you tailing the log from command line?

/opt/fog/log watch tail fogreplicator.log

it should give you info pertaining the replication state of the storage group.

Very easy,

Just go into Fog Configuration > Kernel Update, from here you can select from the latest published kernels, just a case of choosing one and letting it install

What kernel are you running?

I had a similar issue with a specific model machine, switched kernel and it resolved the issue.

Hope you resolve your prob.

Hi all,

Have added a storage node today and the installation went as planned however upon completing the installation and tailing the fogreplicator log nothing has happened, also if I go to the dashboard and select the node using the drop down menu on disk information I just get a “failed to connect to” notification. If however I click where the disk usage graph would normally be it would appear that the FOG server is pulling the Hardware Information from the storage node.

Have ensured all usernames and passwords pertaining the storage node and storage node sql are correct so am a little lost

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers
Robbie

Ahh that makes perfect sense, My apologies for my misunderstanding the group structure. I will use the groups to assign the images and AD settings to the hosts then just multicast the images, I was purely trying it as I had to test an image on a couple of machines and told the guy just to quick image them as I was busy doing something else

As always thanks for your speedy replies Tom and for the continued work you guys are doing , donation incoming

Robbie

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the input, I’m running on 1.1.1 at the moment was it something that was incorporated prior to this release? I am going to try setting up a job to push to the group as the method I have been using is to Setup a group, assign the image, Flag the add to AD after imaging task and set the FOG_QUICKREG_GROUP_ASSOC to that specific group so that when one of my guys goes to register a host it can just do a quick image based on the Group settings and the FOG_QUICKREG_IMG_ID. I don’t know if any of that conflicts but the thing that is confusing me is that the fields AD fields that get pulled into the group management section disappear when I click update.

Cheers
Robbie