I would very much like to join the discussion on this. Please remember though that I am just simply a computer tech for a school district. I don’t have the background or knowledge on software development or programming or anything like that. My main goal is simply trying to install printers that are already created on our print server in our district. Previously we had Novell Zenworks, the printer management in that was pretty great. I don’t know how familiar you are with Zenworks, but we simply made a printer policy which basically made a policy that linked a printer on our print server to a machine. Everytime a user logged in it would install the printer if it was not already created for the user, since we made the printer policy for the device and not the user.

As mentioned in this thread, the printer is created in FOG and the printer is pushed out to the machine, but we also need it to remove the printer. In my case it is not removing. I would need to manually remove it. I have not had time to try on different models to see if it’s a model specific problem, but this is where I am at now. In the future I plan to try other models, but since this is not high priority right now, I have pushed printer management to the side.

On the bottom right corner on the dashboard it says Version 1.5.6.

Thank you for this information. I will have to come back to this at a later date though. I really do want to continue with this but our school district is in the middle of preparing machines and we’re relying on FOG heavily right now. I am not a Linux user so everything is new to me right now, so if we lose FOG, it will set us back a bit. Once projects are done I will come back to this. Thanks again.

[root@fogserver ~]# pvs
  PV         VG     Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree
  /dev/sda3  centos lvm2 a--  464.56g 4.00m

[root@fogserver ~]# vgs
  VG     #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize   VFree
  centos   1   4   0 wz--n- 464.56g 4.00m

[root@fogserver ~]# lvs
  LV     VG     Attr       LSize    Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  home   centos -wi-ao----   10.00g                                                    
  images centos -wi-ao---- <426.81g                                                    
  root   centos -wi-ao----   20.00g                                                    
  swap   centos -wi-ao----    7.75g

Thank you for the reply. Here are the requested commands.

[centos@fogserver ~]$ mount
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
devtmpfs on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,seclabel,size=3929676k,nr_inodes=982419,mode=755)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,seclabel)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,seclabel,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,seclabel,mode=755)
tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,seclabel,mode=755)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,xattr,release_agent=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-cgroups-agent,name=systemd)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
efivarfs on /sys/firmware/efi/efivars type efivarfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,blkio)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,perf_event)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,freezer)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,cpuacct,cpu)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,pids)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,net_prio,net_cls)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,memory)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,hugetlb)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,devices)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,seclabel,cpuset)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/mapper/centos-root on / type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,noquota)
selinuxfs on /sys/fs/selinux type selinuxfs (rw,relatime)
systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=35,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=14665)
debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime)
hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,seclabel)
mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime,seclabel)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw,relatime)
/dev/sdb1 on /images2 type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,noquota)
/dev/sda2 on /boot type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,noquota)
/dev/sda1 on /boot/efi type vfat (rw,relatime,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=winnt,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/mapper/centos-home on /home type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,noquota)
/dev/mapper/centos-images on /images type xfs (rw,relatime,seclabel,attr2,inode64,noquota)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run/user/1002 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,size=789420k,mode=700,uid=1002,gid=1002)
tmpfs on /run/user/42 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,seclabel,size=789420k,mode=700,uid=42,gid=42)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1002/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1002,group_id=1002)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime)

[centos@fogserver ~]$ df -h 
Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                   3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /dev
tmpfs                      3.8G   26M  3.8G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                      3.8G   10M  3.8G   1% /run
tmpfs                      3.8G     0  3.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/centos-root     20G  8.3G   12G  42% /
/dev/sdb1                  466G   35G  432G   8% /images2
/dev/sda2                 1014M  386M  629M  39% /boot
/dev/sda1                  200M   12M  189M   6% /boot/efi
/dev/mapper/centos-home     10G  597M  9.5G   6% /home
/dev/mapper/centos-images  427G  356G   72G  84% /images
tmpfs                      771M   36K  771M   1% /run/user/1002
tmpfs                      771M   12K  771M   1% /run/user/42

[centos@fogserver ~]$ lsblk
NAME              MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda                 8:0    0 465.8G  0 disk 
├─sda1              8:1    0   200M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2              8:2    0     1G  0 part /boot
└─sda3              8:3    0 464.6G  0 part 
  ├─centos-root   253:0    0    20G  0 lvm  /
  ├─centos-swap   253:1    0   7.8G  0 lvm  [SWAP]
  ├─centos-home   253:2    0    10G  0 lvm  /home
  └─centos-images 253:3    0 426.8G  0 lvm  /images
sdb                 8:16   0 465.8G  0 disk 
└─sdb1              8:17   0 465.8G  0 part /images2

FOG: 1.5.9-RC1
Server: CentOS 7

Right now I have a queue of about 40 machines. The machines in queue show this screen

The queue is working, just not in order. Whichever machine detects an opening first, it takes it, instead of the next one that I set up in order. If I remember right, the machine would show which number they are by having the “There are ## before me.” Is there a way to get the queue back in order?

I think this may be related to a database issue I had here.

Thank you

@xburnerx00 said in Problems after adding storage:

storage=192.168.10.200:/images2/ storageip=192.168.10.200

Thank you for the reply.

Yes, this line change to the GRUB file seems to have worked, but it causes another issue. Now when I try to deploy an image that is stored in the original storage node, FOG says that the original storage node cannot be found, because I think it is only looking in the second storage node. Is there a way to change the GRUB on the usb where it would look through both storages for images?

I’m thinking I change the line to this, just not sure.

storage=192.168.10.200:/images storage=192.168.10.200:/images2/ storageip=192.168.10.200

Thank you.

This is the grub.cfg on the USB. Where do I put the line? Near the top with the lines that say set? Do I add ‘set’? before the lines you asked me to try? Are the lines two separate lines? Sorry, for all the questions.

set myfogip=192.168.10.200
set myimage=/boot/bzImage
set myinits=/boot/init.xz
set myloglevel=4
set timeout=-1
insmod all_video

menuentry "1. FOG Image Deploy/Capture" {
 echo loading the kernel
 linux  $myimage loglevel=$myloglevel initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 keymap= web=$myfogip/fog/ boottype=usb consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4
 echo loading the virtual hard drive
 initrd $myinits
 echo booting kernel...
}

menuentry "2. Perform Full Host Registration and Inventory" {
 echo loading the kernel
 linux  $myimage loglevel=$myloglevel initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 keymap= web=$myfogip/fog/ boottype=usb consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 mode=manreg
 echo loading the virtual hard drive
 initrd $myinits
 echo booting kernel...
}

menuentry "3. Quick Registration and Inventory" {
 echo loading the kernel
 linux  $myimage loglevel=$myloglevel initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 keymap= web=$myfogip/fog/ boottype=usb consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 mode=autoreg
 echo loading the virtual hard drive
 initrd $myinits
 echo booting kernel...
}

menuentry "4. Client System Information (Compatibility)" {
 echo loading the kernel
 linux  $myimage loglevel=$myloglevel initrd=init.xz root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 keymap= web=$myfogip/fog/ boottype=usb consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 mode=sysinfo
 echo loading the virtual hard drive
 initrd $myinits
 echo booting kernel...
}

menuentry "5. Run Memtest86+" {
 linux /boot/memdisk iso raw
 initrd /boot/memtest.bin
}

menuentry "6. FOG Debug Kernel" {
 echo loading the kernel
 linux  $myimage loglevel=7 init=/sbin/init root=/dev/ram0 rw ramdisk_size=275000 keymap= boottype=usb consoleblank=0 rootfstype=ext4 isdebug=yes
 echo loading the virtual hard drive
 initrd $myinits
 echo booting kernel...
}

menuentry "7. FOG iPXE Jumpstart BIOS" {
 echo loading the kernel
 linux16  /boot/ipxe.krn
 echo booting iPXE...
}

menuentry "8. FOG iPXE Jumpstart EFI" {
 echo chain loading the kernel
 insmod chain 
 chainloader /boot/ipxe.efi
 echo booting iPXE-efi...
}

@Sebastian-Roth said in Problems after adding storage:

storage=192.168.10.200:/images2/ storageip=192.168.10.200

Thank you for the reply.

Where exactly do I add this line? On the grub.cfg file on my USB boot? That is the only place I remember making changes on the drive when I followed the instructions from here.

Server OS: CentOS 7
FOG Version: 1.5.9-RC1

I recently installed a new hard drive to expand storage for images on the master FOG node. I followed the instructions here: Adding additional image storage space to FOG server. Everything seems fine with the install so I did a test image.

FOG captured the image to the new storage node and the target machine restarted and booted normal. One problem is in the Tasks menu, the machine stayed “In-Progress” (No screen shot of that.) I cancel it and check Images and it shows…

I figured it is a bug so we’ll see when the image is deployed. I set the task to target machine, machine picks up task, but I get this error…

Tasks shows that the task is stuck in progress…

This is where I am stuck.

Deployment of another image that is stored on the original storage space deployed with no problems.

Thank you.

Yes, the Dell Latitude 3189 are laptops that do not have internet ports and we had to use USB adapters. At that time, the version of FOG didn’t like same MACs for multiple machines. So the way I got around that was deleting the hosts since it was tied to a MAC from a USB and I was more concerned with just getting them imaged. I guess I deleted them prematurely. Unless I just overlooked something completely and did something wrong.

As for the deploy task ones, I’m not sure why they were stuck in there. They may have been ones that seemed to be giving me imaging problems and I turned off the machine before canceling it in the task menu.

MariaDB [fog]> SELECT * FROM hosts WHERE hostID IN ( 515, 401, 513, 529, 532, 584 );
Empty set (0.00 sec)

MariaDB [fog]> SELECT * FROM images WHERE imageID IN ( 32, 33, 13 );
+---------+--------------------+-----------+------------------+--------------+----------------+---------------------+---------------+---------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------+----------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+---------------+--------------+----------------+-----------------+
| imageID | imageName          | imageDesc | imagePath        | imageProtect | imageMagnetUri | imageDateTime       | imageCreateBy | imageBuilding | imageSize                                                                                          | imageTypeID | imagePartitionTypeID | imageOSID | imageFormat | imageLastDeploy     | imageCompress | imageEnabled | imageReplicate | imageServerSize |
+---------+--------------------+-----------+------------------+--------------+----------------+---------------------+---------------+---------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------+----------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+---------------+--------------+----------------+-----------------+
|      13 | DellOP3050         |           | DellOP3050       |            0 |                | 2019-07-17 15:31:36 | fog           |             0 | 524283904.000000:204800.000000:104857600.000000:16777216.000000:9948450.000000:40748851200.000000: |           1 |                    1 |         9 | 0           | 2020-05-11 12:54:12 |             6 | 1            | 1              |     19663157396 |
|      32 | Dell Latitude 3189 |           | DellLatitude3189 |            0 |                | 2020-03-14 09:27:01 | fog           |             0 | 554692608.000000:104857600.000000:16777216.000000:25425911808.000000:                              |           1 |                    1 |         9 | 0           | 2020-03-14 11:52:34 |             6 | 1            | 1              |     14588521696 |
|      33 | HP 400 G1          |           | HP400G1          |            0 |                | 2020-05-13 07:39:14 | fog           |             0 | 554692608.000000:104857600.000000:16777216.000000:8306813.000000:34024706048.000000:               |           1 |                    1 |         9 | 5           | 2020-05-13 08:05:09 |             6 | 1            | 1              |     16054171954 |
+---------+--------------------+-----------+------------------+--------------+----------------+---------------------+---------------+---------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------+----------------------+-----------+-------------+---------------------+---------------+--------------+----------------+-----------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)