Posts made by Wayne Workman

Waiting for them to produce an Amazon Machine Image: https://wiki.centos.org/Cloud/AWS

I’ve found out today that CentOS 8 is out, who knew? Not me. I’ll be getting it added to the daily tests.

@Sebastian-Roth Yes. I have a new fog server & storage node setup, but haven’t done anything with the location plugin just yet.
I know I said I’d test it back in September. Shame on me.

@sudburr said in How to totally expunge FOG and everything it's touched:

But I don’t want to re-install the OS by remote. Not yet at least.

I’d have already done it…

Side note: I rarely even install OSs at home anymore. I have clean VMs that I clone for making new VMs.

@tomhtil said in Storage node behind NAT:

@Sebastian-Roth is there an easy way to sync the database as well? I’d be happy with multi master setup if i could sync the images folder and the relevant config for just the images.

Galera

@isaiah658 Just wait until you try out the new ZSTD compression.

@Greg-Plamondon My advice: start eliminating variables, start reducing complexity. Create a new script that has a single command to sync one of your nodes - don’t use any variables, hard code everything. See if that works. If it doesn’t, start eliminating arguments one by one until you find the one that is problematic. Also try to sync test directories. Also look at the permissions of the directories you are syncing both locally and remotely.

Didn’t read enough - carry on.

My next article will be on load-balancing FOG’s web frontend and database backend… I’ve just not wrote it yet… Don’t wait on me, it might be a while.

Set the username manually in the database? That’s what I’d think about doing for this very rare one-off. I can help you try that.

it seems generating passwords in fog has been an issue for a while… be it special characters that need handled or double vs single quotes to contain it…

Lately in my own projects, I opt for very long passwords made from upper & lower case letters and numbers randomly. I’m talking 32, or 64 characters long. Typically I look up the maximum length supported password, and generate one of that length, just letters and numbers.

@martial A temporary solution would be to manually reset the encryption. Steps on this are in the wiki here:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=FOG_Client#Reset_encryption_data
That’s just to get you moving along. Please still help us figure out why the button is not appearing for you.

You might also consider cleaning your database…
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshoot_MySQL#Database_Maintenance_Commands
You can replace the DELETE with SELECT * to see the entries, instead of deleting them.

Have you tried ssh aliases?

For example, if you are root and set the file /root/.ssh/config as such:

Host fog-server
    User root
    HostName 10.0.0.28
    Port 22

You can then just type ssh fog-server and bam, you’re in.
Makes scripting a bit simpler… Particularly makes getting around in your systems faster while in the shell.

Agreeing with @Sebastian-Roth though. If ssh works manually, but doesn’t in cron, it’s maybe a user issue. You can figure out who it’s executing as like such:
whoami > /tmp/whoami.txt 2>&1
Put that towards the top of your script, see what it says.

@TBuzaTechnician said in Auto-Installing FOG with HTTPS enabled issues:

but I have a habit of using sudo anyway.

This has in-fact caused many people problems. I don’t know why, don’t really care why, but using sudo with the installer doesn’t work. As Sebastion said, properly log in as root with sudo -i and then execute the installer.

@sudburr Are you aware of this article? https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=Migrate_FOG

@astrugatch The link is in my signature. Testing is suspended by request of @Sebastian-Roth until the 20th of this month. The last test results can be seen on the site.

My memory is very foggy on this (pun intended), but I think the Max Clients setting inside of each storage node is what determines how many snapins can run at once.

@TBuzaTechnician You can also pre-place your .fogsettings file, rather than modifying the source code every time. Here’s a writeup on that settings file:
https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php?title=.fogsettings
Modifying the source is cool too, whatever shakes your feathers.

@JJ-Fullmer I commented on your PR, I’m concerned about the licensing.

This could possibly be related: https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/13717/fog-with-galera-snapin-problems
We never got down to why some of @Neil’s systems deployed snapins but not all. It’s entirely possible that not all of the computers were in the group as he thought they were. @Neil, how did you register those systems you tried to deploy to?