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So what I am trying to do is when the computer is registered and is put through the fog.inventory file, I am trying to get what current Windows version is installed on the current drive and assign that to a certain image. IE. if it picks up that Windows 10 Home is installed, it then deploys the Windows 10 home image.

So I can see that we can use chntpw to run the command to determine the OS version.

chntpw -e /path/to/windisk/Windows/System32/config/SOFTWARE
cat \Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProductName

The question is how would I go about doing this if at all possible?
Where would the best place be to run it from? FOG.MAN.REG ???
Is the Windows mounted at all during registration?

@UserBxl May I suggest looking at the BIOS . I see you captured an EFI image. Just check the boot settings on the Lenovo make sure it is booting to EFI and not the Auto setting . Also check if secure boot has been disabled.

Hi guys

So I have been trying to capture this very specific image from a Lenovo (since it cannot take a generic image deployment ).

The drives are eMMC and the capture goes perfectly but looking at the image size it says that is 2.5gb where the space used on the disk is 51gbs.

When capturing I selected Single disk resizeable as I normally select. I uninstalled fog and installed the latest dev version.

It’s not like I am getting an error it just seems to be missing a partition.

Oh and I am not Sysprepping the image.

Any ideas ?

Kind regards

@Tom-Elliott Thank you , i will have a look

So I have a problem where we are deploying the machines but there is data still on a second HDD.

Is there a way in the deployment process to erase any other HDD in the computer at the same time ?

I know this would be a unique case example.

Hi Guys

I am trying to find the imaging logs of what hosts have been imaged but I noticed that when I ran the report it only shows the history of hosts still registered and displaying.

Ie. If I delete a host and then run an image report the host does not show up in the imaging log.

Is there a way to see all hosts registered/imaged even after they have been deleted and removed?

@george1421 said in Certificate of Data Destruction:

e also trivial: https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/php-send-atta

Thank you so much . Makes perfect sense. Let me try that way .

Hi Guys

I am trying to create a certificate of data destruction to prove that the PC has been cleaned when put through FOG. I wanted to know if this has been done by anyone before.

So to explain what I have tried I must first explain that I only use Fog through a bootable USB and not PXE boot.

So what I tried to do is create a template HTML file called cert.html in the service directory. I then modified the fog.man.reg file to run an AWK command (see below) to insert the variables into the HTML file and create a new HTML file. This so far has been unsuccessful. I will need to email the report which I will be able to trigger once I create the file.

Every time I run the command I get a FILE or Directory cannot be found.

Any ideas ?

Here is my code :

awk -v host=$host -v stockcode=$other1 '{sub(/DIGICODE/,host);sub(/SYSMAN/,stockcode); print }' ${web}service/cert.html >> ${web}service/cert_new.html

@george1421 Is this article still relevant ???

https://wiki.fogproject.org/wiki/index.php/Bypass_Host_Registration#Multicast_Deployment

Hi Guys

I have a very strange one, the idea is that after I deploy the image I want to clear the hosts in the database so if I am using a USB-Ethernet adapter I do not have to log on and clear the previous hosts.

So I currently use the IPXE USB method : https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7727/building-usb-booting-fos-image

I have the script in the /var/www/fog/service/ folder … deletehosts.sh.

Now the script works from the server but I cannot for the life of me work out how to trigger the script from the fog.imgcomplete file on the USB.

Am I being stupid in trying technics such as string to use the following in the script?

${web}service/deletehosts.sh

I even tried Curl -s but I cannot seem to get it right . What would the correct syntax be.

@george1421 Thank you so much … I updated the to the latest ipxe and it sorted out the issue .

Good day

I have used the following tutorial below to create a bootable USB disk, which works well but it uses the ipxe.efi file. I want to try add / replace that file or create a new menu entry for HP laptops and use snponly.efi / snp.efi but I cannot seem to make it work.

snponly.efi works if I put it into the bootfilename .

Here is the link to the tutorial I was using [https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/7727/building-usb-booting-fos-image/21?page=2]

Good day

I am looking for a way once the host has been registered and the image has been deployed to automatically delete the host on completion.

The reason for this is we use a USB to ethernet dongle which keeps saying the device has been registered before.

We also do not need to keep a record of the deployment hence a simple reset after deployment.

Hi guys,

I know this has been covered multiple times, but I have tried various methods, from the API post-deployment to remove the host to the I.M.I option or the I.M.C option. I cannot seem to get it right.

So the problem is I have one adapter and I am trying to avoid the constant deleting the host to re-register a new host with the adapter. Is there not a way that I can automatically delete the host after deployment?

Hi

I am looking for some help. I need to produce a data destruction certificate or report of some kind stating the device has been reloaded , when using fog.

Any ideas. I know about dban etc… just nothing seems to work

@wayne-workman said in Resetting the Image numbers r4602:

SELECT imageID FROM images ORDER BY imageID LIMIT 1;

Can I just say thank you for this.

@george1421 Just thinking out of the box here, and I understand I might be barking up the wrong tree, but could something like this work ?

https://linux.die.net/man/1/hivexsh

Would it then be possible to install this in fog and use this a function ?

As from there I should be able to pull the Windows version out from the registry, in theory.

As I have said before I am still learning .

@Sebastian-Roth You would be correct in the approach . Its an image once then forget. I am not using any tool to extract just a command which assigns the value to a variable and prints it out.

I then manually input the product key into a third party tool.

Do you know of any tools that could do the trick ?

Yes I do a full registration of the host then deploy .

Good day

I am looking to automate the deployment based on the license key extracted.

I currently extract the Windows license key from the BIOS, then use 3rd party tools such as ShowKeyPlus or PID checker to determine the OS version needed for the install. I then assign the OS version to the host and deploy.

What I wanted to know is it possible to extract the license key and determine the image to be assigned to the host automatically without the manual process of using 3rd party software applications?

@Tom-Elliott Thank you for your input. I realize that i have made a mistake in the code. I am new to bash and fog in general.

The idea is to have a while loop running until an image has been assigned. Or a sort of pause before it continues. The reason being that this is being done remotely and I would be assigning the correct image to the host. I am not psychically in front of the computer. The hosts users would only select that they want an image to be deployed and not select an image to deploy.

Hope that makes sense.

So what I guess I was looking for and I do realize that this is n the wrong thread is a way inside a while loop to see if an image has been assigned before continuing on with the deployment. BTW I have modified the fog.man.reg to go straight to the fog.download and the end of the registration.