Goals
- Knowing how to install FOG
- Understanding the challenges of system images
- Knowing how to clone and redeploy a Windows XP, Vista, 7 and Linux system
- Knowing how to manage FOG and its evolution over time
- Master the different components of FOG
- Optimization of FOG Complex scenarios installation
Program
Why deploy system images?
State of the art
Technologies usually involved
Presentation of the FOG project
Prerequisites
« Automated » installation
Use of ready-to-use virtual machines
Integration on an isolated network: DHCP, TFTP, PXE
Integration on a network already in place
Practical workshop: installing FOG on an Ubuntu server
Discovery of the interface
Preparing a workstation for cloning Workstation
management in the
Image management interface (types of images, types of OS, etc.)
Deploy an image
Practical workshop: adding positions in FOG, sending and redeploying images
Basic tasks: sending, deployment
Advanced tasks: debugging, antivirus, memory test, …
Managing groups of machines
Scheduling tasks
Performances
Using Wake On Lan functions
Practical workshop: discovery of advanced tasks, functional testing
Presentation of the client
Prerequisites
Discovery of the functionalities
Printers management
Scheduled
restart Automatic installation of software on the workstations: « Snap-ins »
Practical workshop: deployment of the client, installation of Firefox and a printer
Common problems
Advanced cleaning of a system before cloning
Using sysprep on Windows clients
Considerations on disk space, and client specificities (swap, hibernation, …)
User management
FOG backup FOG
updates
Deployment kernel updates
Report generation
Duration
4 days
Price
£ 2599
Audience
Network administrators
Prerequisites
System and network administration
Reference
Re578-F
DHCP
configuration TFTP
configuration Web server configuration (Apache + PHP)
mysql
configuration NFS configuration
Practical workshop: identification of all components, installation on an unsupported distribution
Review of classic unicast
deployment Massive multi-workstation deployment: multicast
Network & performance considerations
Modifying the deployment kernel and boot options
Modifying the PXE service
Practical workshop: setting up a multicast deployment, performance comparison
Feedback on the default installation
Configuration of storage nodes (NFS / FTP)
Adding nodes to an installation
Managing replication between nodes
Impacts on performance and resilience
Hands-on Workshop: Adding a Storage Node, Parallelized Image Deployment
General System Security Considerations
Permissions, NFS and FTP Server
Security Access Security for PHP and the Web Server
Sessions
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