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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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