What do you have in your /etc/hosts file. We have alias and aliasFQDN for each IP
# # Internet host table # 127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.2 physical physical.corp.net loghost 192.168.1.15 devalias devalias.corp.net 192.168.1.18 testalias testalias.corp.net What happens if you try to use a devalias.corp.net type of FQDN? (I'm still on 6.3 so I haven't come across this problem yet) Fred -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 4:01 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Shared RPC #'s on one physical box with 3 vm's Yes - the vm's all have their own names/IP addresses. I checked and the names do resolve correctly on the network. Here's the kicker though - several (all?) of the plugins in this setup need aliases defined in the ar.conf file so they can connect to the server. They are expecting to see the fully qualified domain name (FQDN). The FQDN does not work if you use the alias name/port - you have to use the physical box FQDN. According to the BMC KB's this behavior is working as designed. So if each box is defining a rpc's for any specific plug AND you have to define the alias - AND the alias is the physical box FQDN - what happens? -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grooms, Frederick W Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:25 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Shared RPC #'s on one physical box with 3 vm's I believe RPC is a protocol used over IP transport (Each logical host does have it's own IP doesn't it??) So each logical host (IP) should have it's own RPC called 390600 Fred -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Rentfrow Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 3:13 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Shared RPC #'s on one physical box with 3 vm's Can someone please explain to me how this works? Let's say I have physical Sun/Solaris box named B1. On B1 I have three logical hosts, B2, B3, and B4. Each has an identical Remedy install, etc, with the exception of the install directory, host name, and ports. None use portmapper. The installation is a vanilla AR 7.1 + CMDB + IM + SLM install. Each has it's own remote database. All of these installs share RPC numbers for fast/list/escalation threads (etc...). The installer defines these in the /etc/rpc file like this: # Action Request System daemons arserverd 390600 arserverd arserverd 390601 arserverd arserverd 390604 arserverd arserverd 390619 arserverd arserverd 390620 arserverd ... What I am curious is this - if a request comes in for server B1 and B2 for the same RPC at the same time - what happens? Does it process the requests in order? Simultaneously? Does each server effectively have their own RPC called 390600? It would appear not since these are tied to the physical server and not the virtual servers. Or do the RPC #'s get tied to the ports so there is a unique combination? William Rentfrow, Principal Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] C 701-306-6157 O 952-432-0227 _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
