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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hello everyone,
I am preparing to do my yearly imaging of our fleet. We have been manually installing the client currently, however now I would like to include the WCG client into my image. We use windows deployment server to push our images to the clients over the LAN. My main question is does anyone have tips / tricks / suggestions for deploying the client into an image that will be sysprepped? My main worry that after imaging the computer name will be changed on first boot, and I wonder how that will affect the WCG client attaching back to the grid. Thanks |
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pirogue
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Dec 8, 2008 Post Count: 685 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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I've never done it myself, but this should work:
----------------------------------------http://wcg.wikia.com/wiki/Mass_install_%28disk_image%29 If you want to do remote monitoring/control, you'll also want to: 1. set a known password in gui_rpc_auth.cfg 2. put one more trusted IP addresses in remote_hosts.cfg 3. allow incoming traffic on port 31416 from the trusted IP addresses used in #2 |
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X-Files 27
Senior Cruncher Canada Joined: May 21, 2007 Post Count: 391 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Here's my own recipe:
----------------------------------------Working BOINC system 1) Create an AIP of BOINC - to extract the boinc files (boinc folder is what we need) 2) Prepare the ff files: gui_rpc_auth.cfg - if you want common password account_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml - copy it from a working boinc system cc_config.xml - custom config global_prefs_override.xml - custom prefs 3) export the ff registry key from a working system: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Space Sciences Laboratory, U.C. Berkeley\BOINC Setup] Modify INSTALLDIR, DATADIR and MIGRATIONDIR to ur desired location Sysprep 4) Copy boinc files from step1 to INSTALLDIR 5) Copy files from step 2 to DATADIR 6) Add the start up cmdline in the registry (CurrentVersion\Run) 7) Add the registry entries from step 3.   |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Thanks everyone.
----------------------------------------My test image/sysprep worked perfectly the first time. THATS never happened before  edit: All I had to do was while the reference computer was in audit mode was to install WCG client, copy the account_www.worldcommunitygrid.org.xml to the c:\programdata\boinc directory and then do the sysprep /shutdown [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at May 6, 2012 7:52:31 PM] |
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depriens
Senior Cruncher The Netherlands Joined: Jul 29, 2005 Post Count: 350 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Nice to hear that these things also can go right the first time... sometimes. Good job!
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