I’m not quite sure about configuring the appliance with cloud-init. I think I might know what you mean. Maybe that is the part of the setup that did not happen for me. I ended up creating my own hosted engine with a CDROM ISO to get me going today. Thank you.
From: Simone Tiraboschi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 8:20 AM To: Langley, Robert <[email protected]> Cc: users <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted Engine Appliance hostname causing issues in production environment Il 13 Mag 2016 1:29 AM, "Langley, Robert" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> ha scritto: > > Hello; > > > > I discovered, the hard way, that the appliance is configured with the > hostname of localhost.localdomain.localdomain > > It seems that something did not go well with the hosted-engine –deploy Did you try configuring the appliance with cloud-init? Can you please attach hosted-engine-setup logs? > I can go into the engine VM and edit the hostname, but if for any reason I > need to poweroff the engine VM, I get in trouble. Because, then the hostname > goes back to localhost.localdomain.localdomain and both DHCP & DNS within our > enterprise/production environment ends up assuming that for the hostname to > IP address reference or record. And it seems that other linux systems (not > the ones I administer; none of my almost 50 systems are effected. Of those, I > have about 5 linux/UNIX based systems attached to the production network) are > going offline because of this. > > I assume they do not have their HOSTS file configured correctly, but they > (the other administrators) are not listening to me. I have already told them > what to look for, in order to fix the issue on their own systems, but they’ve > ended up with this now for the third time. > > This is because I work for a local government and we have various > administrators for the various agencies within our County government. > > I have unplugged my initial physical host from our County network and I think > I’m going to end up bringing up a physical engine host, then work on > converting that to a VM for a hosted engine. I hope that is going to work. I > tried bringing up the OVA of the appliance within VirtualBox, but that > doesn’t work. Is there another virtual software I can bring up within a > Windows PC to simply edit the hostname, then export the appliance again? > > I think the appliance for download needs to be changed to have something > other than “localhost.localdomain.localdomain” as the hostname in the > hosted-engine appliance. I downloaded the OVA file from the > Jenkins.ovirt.org<http://Jenkins.ovirt.org> site. > > > > Sincerely, > > -Robert > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users >
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