Update on this project, @Tom-Elliott has taken the PHP backend and integrated it partially into FOG Trunk. It’s available as a plugin, but not fully functioning just yet. We still need to create scheduling for it. Tom has already written a way to display everything in the checksum table, and a way to export those if people wanted to use a 3rd party app to analyze the results if they wish.

I’ll be writing some intelligent code that will analyze the table’s contents to display concerning entries. The analysis will follow some basic principals.

• Makes decisions based on data in the DB.

• A storage group’s files should always match across all nodes in the group, both images and snapins.

• Images shared between storage groups should always match between those groups masters.

• If no image upload occurred between the last and current check, images are expected to match across that time period.

• If an image upload does occur, the files are expected to change.

Results of the intelligent analysis should display concerns, following the rules above, and the user should be able to “dismiss” individual file concerns so they don’t show anymore.

The integrity table will have a column that will operate similar to the pending hosts column in the hosts table. blank or zero should be unchecked or false (bad or unprocessed), 1 should be good or dismissed.

This column in the table will be administered by the intelligent checking, and by the user’s “dismiss” clicks. Once an entry for a file is marked as “good” by either no problems being detected or being dismissed by the user, that entry is forever good. If it’s blank, when analyzed it will be marked 0 or 1 respectively.

I’ll be working on this as I have time.

@zer0cool said in Clarification on Snapins, How/When They Run?:

I haven’t found any evidence of having snapins run on a schedule,

You can schedule them - that’s called a delayed deployment.

@pizzutoitalia It’s your browser’s auto-fill changing your node’s user/pass. Here’s an article that talks about that: https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshoot_FTP

@zer0cool said in Clarification on Snapins, How/When They Run?:

Anyone able to weigh in on the permissions FOG client/snapins have?

All snapins run as the local SYSTEM user, so scripts that normally work as administrator might not work as system. There’s a whole lot of threads on the forums about this, probably just put this into google’s search engine to find them all:
site:forums.fogproject.org "snapin" + "system"

@Tom-Elliott said in Active Directory join fails:

@jhuesser Find the mac address of the virtual box network interface. Do a lookup on the gui and remove it if you can.

Add that mac address under FOG Settings -> Expand all -> (search for filter) and add the mac address of the Vbox system to that filter list.

Then you shouldn’t ahve a problem.

#wiki worthy

@george1421 said in Multiple FOG servers in one network:

You will need a way to map the pxe booting computer to a specific fog server.

ISC-DHCP can also do it. You can define a next-server for a specific MAC address, though doing that at scale would royally suck.

@Paul-Storic said in DHCP options for VMWARE appliance:

it’s version .27

Holy cow. Stay away from that. Latest is 1.2.0, use that. Or better yet, FOG Trunk.

@AndrewG78 said in legal issue:

I’m a little confused about the terms of ‘Disclose Source’.

You are only required to share the source code if you make a change to the source code and then distribute software containing that change. So if you’re not changing source code, you’re fine. If you did change the source code to fix something or make something work, you could do a pull request on github, or at the very least you can post your changes here in the forums. Configuration, settings, and input fields are not source code. Those things are intended for you to change & use as you need and you don’t need to share them, unless you really want to.

@Quazz It’s has_usb_nic=1

Article about it:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=USB_NIC_(usb_network_adapter)

Sounds like a cool idea. Of course you know there’s steps in the wiki for changing IPs, and also the tool that does it for you. I don’t know what the event looks like, but maybe you can record your presentation and put it on YouTube.

@Arsenal101 double-check the FTP Path?

@tom-elliott could it possibly be a bug?

@lambdacalculus Typically, this error is not caused by accessing certain pages… Generally speaking, your database connection is totally busted, or is intermittently working. And when it’s intermittently working, it’s usually load related problems. I have some questions for you:

• How many hosts do you have running the fog client?
• How much ram/cpu do you have allocated to your fog server?
• What OS & version is your fog server running?
• What version of FOG are you running?
• Give us a screenshot of the output produced by the linux top command on your FOG server while the problem is occurring.
• Check for a duplicate IP address concerning your FOG server’s IP address using these instructions.

there are two slashes in ftp path.

@pdit ok that’s odd, you should just supply the correct interface name to the installer when it asks that question.

Would you mind sharing the output of these command please, so that we might see what’s going wrong?
ip addr
ifconfig

just let it run through installation using whatever interface/ip, then afterwards we can modify the /opt/fog/.fogsettings file to point to the correct interface and IP, and modify your storage node and web address and other things in the web GUI, and re-run the installer, then it should be fixed.

@JJ-Fullmer can they be converted to something YouTube supports? (as opposed to re-recording)

We can put them on the FOG Project Videos YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrvOQPcm1SDIfIrzWZ9K3bA/videos

0.32 images would be in partimage format, so you’d set this per image I think in FOG Trunk, or in fog settings somewhere in 1.2.0. I’d suggest as soon as you’re able to download those images, to re-upload them so they are in the new format.

If your boss asked you to do this within this time frame, you should push back.

@Vanlue-IT-Guy instructions on these steps are in the wiki:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshoot_Downloading_-_Multicast

I’ve added some more steps that should avoid those errors.

I’ve updated the chown command in the wiki. The user fogproject is something that came about after this article was written. The user used to be just fog