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An open source computer cloning & management system
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Add support for specifying a max wait time to start multicast tasks after #496

Closed danboid closed 1 year ago

danboid commented 1 year ago

As discussed here:

https://forums.fogproject.org/topic/16528/removing-macs-from-multicast-task-without-starting-over/6

It would be handy if FOG let the user specify a --max-wait setting for udp-sender when creating a multicast task so that the task would start after a specified delay regardless of whether or not all of the specified hosts had successfully booted into FOG to join the task. This would prevent the user having to manually power off several machines to restart a multicast task if one or two machines are unable to PXE boot.

I'd say a default value of 30 minutes / 1800 seconds should give most multicast users enough time to get all their hosts booted up if not using WoL and the hosts require entering a password or manual intervention (using a boot menu etc) to PXE boot them.

danboid commented 1 year ago

Seems this is already implemented.