morganw

Does your root mysql account not have a password?

We had one fitted a few weeks ago, worked for 10 minutes then stopped. To get it to that point took two 'engineers' about 4 hours. They had no concept of networking, just got it to work on a laptop with a default static IP address, didn't work on our network. I reported the fault last week, heard nothing since. I can't ping it and the software can't find it.

I'd recommend LanSchool as a replacement for RM tutor. It uses the idea of 'channels' that can be configured through group policy or scripting so you'll never get people remote controlling the wrong room. The user interface also seemed the easiest to use from those I tested. I think the pricing structure was similar to AB TutorControl, free for clients, pay for each teacher licence.

07/02/2011 15:06:40 Error: Starting VM 'UPGRADE' on 'xenserver01' - Using to parse /boot/grub/menu.lst - Traceback (most recent call last): - File "/usr/bin/pygrub", line 746, in ? - raise RuntimeError, "Unable to find partition containing kernel" - RuntimeError: Unable to find partition containing kernel Any ideas how to get around this, i'm running everything on xenserver. I guess the chain loading boot loader doesn't play nicely.

I take it that there is no squeeze volatile repository? I think I was using this on lenny to use clam-av.

Also using laptops means that you cannot do automated builds or software updates overnight. If everything is wired you can do complete rebuilds and updates overnight without any disruption to lessons.

I wouldn't ever use wireless where you could potentially use wires. It isn't 100% reliable even when you invest in managed wireless systems. It also introduces new security risks unless you set up something like a radius server to authenticate the clients onto the network. Wireless drivers are subject to updates and clashes with firmware changes in access points. Laptops will get keys pulled off, get dropped, have a a higher failure rate just due to the nature of the device. Battery life will gradually reduce over time. Also it might sound like a small thing, but unless staff supervise getting the things in and out of a laptop trolley, power cables will get yanked, wires will get frayed, trolley doors will get buckled... Keep it wired.

Just run it through an RDP session. Also that means you've only ever got to upgrade one installation.

Depending on how many computers you have, you may be creating yourself a massive management overhead if you gradually converted all of the PCs and then found you had to manually tweak each one. I would look into automated deployment of the OS and packages via PXE network boot, or try to acheive the same end result with something like LTSP, openThinClient, or Thinstation.

I found that I couldn't reliably deploy these over a CC3 network using the original MSI and a transform. I think the notebook software would install, but the drivers wouldn't. This was all done without any repackaging though, I'm not sure which way you are doing it. You can use TEC21757 to create RM installers without repackaging - just copy your source files into the package area and create a .ini file for it.

I think 0.30 will also let you replace partimage with fsarchiver so really the entire imaging mechanism is getting replaced.

"Pulse 2 additionally integrates with other tools like OCS Inventory, GLPI. Nagios is also possible." If you are using any of these then it can do stuff for you that FOG can't.

I'm using Debian on XenServer to run it but I'm probably in the minority. If you want to stick with Ubuntu then just use something that officially supports it as a guest so you don't get any IO issues. It wouldn't have to be a high spec system as you can offload the imaging through disposable physical storage nodes rather than pull images directly from the VM. To check the database user rights you can run this when logged into mysql: show grants for 'user'@'host' Are running the installer behind a proxy?

Well as long as you can actually get the image files from the working array then you can just copy them onto a new installation. They aren't linked with the database in any way, the name will just have to match the image defintions on the new system. Just remember to match the file permissions if they get reset in transit.

You could try switching to using the mysql root account in the fog configuration and see if that makes a difference. As a last resort I have re-run the installer over the top of an installation before and reset all the passwords.

Does it work if you try and add a host though the PXE boot menu, using either quick registration or full registration? You could try setting up the server from scratch with a blank database, do an export of the hostnames and mac addresses from the old system and then import into the new one. Depending on what parts of FOG you are using then you might now have much else to set up other than that. I would recommend moving it to a virtual machine anyway so you'll never have to do a database transfer again and also if an upgrade goes wrong you can just roll it back using a VM snapshot.

Unless that's a typo, you'll need speech marks around path names that have spaces in.

Thank you. I'll give this a go...

I would use Advanced Installer to create an MSI but most things have silent install switches now so you could also try scripting it with a startup script or find a way to deploy something like a 7-Zip SFX package.

Thanks, that would be great to see. I did look at custom scripts to take out the bad characters but couldn't find a lot of references how to create one or how (and when) to call it from the deployment process.

I phoned RM who told me i'd have to go the manufacturer(?) and refused to let me speak to technical support as we no longer pay them for a support contract. I've ended up rewriting the Model information in the BIOS with a utility called DMICFG.exe so that the drivers will install properly, just changed the forward slashes in hyphens. Unfortunately I'll have to run this procedure 58 times to work through the affected workstations - at least it works though.

Doesn't work, I think because the slashes end up the wrong way around in the %model% variable, so it ends up trying to connect to RM Plc\P5RD2-TVM/GB/1394.

Thanks but my systems model number is P5RD2-TVM/GB/1394. I cannot make folder called that because of the forward slashes so I can't match anything to the variable %Model%.

Just had a thought, I'll try a folder structure that looks like: RM Plc P5RD2-TVM GB 1394 and see if that works.

I'm using MDT2010 and trying to create folder structure for drivers based on the manufacter name and computer model (so the build will pick the relevant drivers based on the computer that it runs on). I've found loads of examples of how to set this up but on some of our computers (including my test machine) have a product name based on the motherboard. So I've a made a folder called 'RM Plc' for the manufacturer, but when I try to make a folder for the model 'P5RD2-TVM/GB/1394' it won't let me make it because of the forward slashes. How can I get around this problem while still using this method to install the correct drivers?