<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Will Dennis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wdennis@nec-labs.com" target="_blank">wdennis@nec-labs.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">n/m, found this URL cleverly concealed in the output of “—help” ;)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/Ovirt-engine-backup" target="_blank">http://www.ovirt.org/Ovirt-engine-backup</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Still would be good to know how I could get a console...</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You have more options:</div><div>1. You can just ssh to the engine VM; if you deployed using the appliance you were asked about setting its root password via cloud-init.<br></div><div>2. Since 3.6.1, the engine will import the hosted-engine storage domain and you'll see the engine VM in the engine. You could open its console from here as for other VMs.</div><div>3. You could directly connect to it with VNC/spice also from other hosts:</div><div>on the host where the engine VM runs:</div><div><div> [root@c72het20151222h1 vdsm_logs]# hosted-engine --add-console-password</div><div> Enter password: </div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>code = 0</div><div><span class="" style="white-space:pre"> </span>message = 'Done'</div></div><div>on your machine:</div><div> /bin/remote-viewer vnc://<host_ip>:5900<br></div><div>4. You could use the VM virtio serial console if the VM is configured for that (and the engine appliance is) as described here:</div><div><a href="http://www.ovirt.org/Serial_Console_Setup#I_need_to_access_the_console_the_old_way">http://www.ovirt.org/Serial_Console_Setup#I_need_to_access_the_console_the_old_way</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> Will Dennis
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 22, 2015 1:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Simone Tiraboschi'<br>
<b>Cc:</b> users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: [ovirt-users] How to run "engine-backup"?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Are there any docs on using this (other than the ‘—help” option text)?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Also, I do not have a GUI environment on my oVirt hosts; how to I display the console of the hosted engine VM if I need it?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif"> Simone Tiraboschi [<a href="mailto:stirabos@redhat.com" target="_blank">mailto:stirabos@redhat.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, December 22, 2015 11:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Will Dennis<br>
<b>Cc:</b> users<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ovirt-users] How to run "engine-backup"?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">yes, engine-backup is on the engine VM :-)<u></u><u></u></p>
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