Tom, I was linked to this thread by the OP and I am in the exact same position. Wayne is 100% correct in what I need and I believe that to be what George1421 needs too.

Lets break it down simply.

1. Create image on “Master” server.
2. Replicate image to all other storage nodes in the same group.
3. Update the remote servers DB to reflect what the “Master” server just copied.

Steps 1 and 2 work fine but there doesnt appear to be a way to do step 3 automatically. This would not be such a major issue if I were able to manually create the image definition at each site, but when I try I am presented with nothing but a white screen saying “add image definition” on the top left and absolutely nothing more on the screen.

I dont want to export/import mysql DB files from the “Master” to the remote sites, I have been doing that for years with .32 and its not a very good practice. Simply updating the remote mysql tables to reflect the images that were just copied should not be a huge task for your software to perform.

Does that explain what I am and also I believe George1421 to be looking for?

Tom, I was linked to this thread by the OP and I am in the exact same position. Wayne is 100% correct in what I need and I believe that to be what George1421 needs too.

Lets break it down simply.

1. Create image on “Master” server.
2. Replicate image to all other storage nodes in the same group.
3. Update the remote servers DB to reflect what the “Master” server just copied.

Steps 1 and 2 work fine but there doesnt appear to be a way to do step 3 automatically. This would not be such a major issue if I were able to manually create the image definition at each site, but when I try I am presented with nothing but a white screen saying “add image definition” on the top left and absolutely nothing more on the screen.

I dont want to export/import mysql DB files from the “Master” to the remote sites, I have been doing that for years with .32 and its not a very good practice. Simply updating the remote mysql tables to reflect the images that were just copied should not be a huge task for your software to perform.

Does that explain what I am and also I believe George1421 to be looking for?

FOG 1.2.0
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - each site is identical with hardware and OS/Fog versions.

Hello, I have been looking through the forums for different things regarding replication/location plugin posts and came across everything that I needed up until now, but I cant find anything for this particular issue or im just not typing the search string correctly to find it.

Replication works great, disk are being copied to my 2 “offsite” servers (as soon as I fix the issue below I will have 9 off site servers to deploy).

My question is, is there a way to make the master node auto-update the image database on the remote servers to match what shows when I goto the “images” area of the FOG GUI on the master server? On both remote servers when I goto look at the list of images, there are no entries in the GUI but the files exist in the /images folder, and if I click on Create New Image to manually add them, I get nothing but a page that says “Add new image definition” at the top of the screen.

In the past with version .32 (didnt know abuot the location plugin back then) I would have a script run that would look for any changes in the /images folder on a primary and scp them out to the other servers, then it would shut down mysql, export the FOG Database, scp that to the outlying servers, then start mysql again. The outlying servers would then run a script each evening that would shut down mysql, import the database from the main server, and then everything on this FOG server would match what was on the main - but sometimes the images wouldnt work, the imageID would change for some reason compared to what it was on the main server and I would have to manually delete and re-create the image definition.

Shouldnt the location plugin be adding these entries after replication?

Thanks for your help!