Posts made by Vrogers

@Chad Ah… Thanks Chad. I was looking for an autocomplete field to populate as in my prior uses with this search bar.

@george1421 It’s a Lenovo M720s, UEFI based

@Sebastian-Roth I don’t know what I’m doing differently then.

@george1421 I’m sorry George, to say that I’m new to Fog would be an understatement. To answer your question about what part of the process is not working, I can’t say exactly, unfortunately. I followed the steps from a community spiceworks post found here, https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/373-fog-server-install-free-opensource-ghost, in addition to a video I found on YouTube. But I have the MAC address of the host entered on the FogServer under the ‘Host’ tab, I have created an Image under the ‘Image’ tab. Moving further right along the tabs under ‘Tasks’, I have the active task ‘forced to start.’ I have the PC set to boot from PXE, only it doesn’t seem like it’s communicating with the fog server. I say that because it’ll go from IPv4, then IPv6, and then boot up to the Windows login screen without any indication of being registered. I am able to ping the fog server from the host, however, I am not able to ping the host from the fog server, which is why I think it’s something in the settings for the SonicWall that’s blocking the communication, which are a nightmare of complexities, at least to me. We’re running the Fog Server on Ubuntu Server 20.04.

The screenshot, technically a picture from my phone, is the only thing that is displaying after I manually reboot the host PC. It sits on that screen for a minute, then continues to IPv6, and then boots to the Windows login screen.

@borg I’m not able to confirm if the host is registered with the server. Upon booting up it gives me the message in the bottom image for both IPv4 and IPv6. In the top image from the fog server, the ‘Warning’ icon previously was the Windows logo, until I attempted to capture the image, that’s when it changed to the warning.

@Sebastian-Roth Yes, I searched for ‘SonicWall’ and also ‘Sonic Wall’ just to cover my bases and both returned with no hits.

I have Fog running as a VM on a Dell server. It has 20G of ram, 3.5T of storage. I have a client machine setup and ready for the image capture. Changed the boot process to PXE on the host machine. I’ve added the MAC address under ‘Host Management.’ I’ve created the image under ‘Image Management.’ Yet, when I reboot the host, it fails to capture the image for whatever reason. This has been plaguing me since last week. I did find an article on SpiceWorks that states I need to install the Fog service on the host machine. That article was written several years ago back in 2014, so I was unsure of the accuracy of that article today. Our DHCP is handled through a SonicWall, that’s what I’m afraid is our issue, at least having the appropriate settings configured correctly anyway. Has anyone successfully implemented Fog with a SonicWall handling the DHCP?