[ovirt-users] Re: Please, Please Help - New oVirt Install/Deployment Failing - "Host is not up..."

OK, so, with all the tooing-and-frowing things stand as follows (@03:15UTC 25-Oct-2022): - I managed to solve the "DNF Timeout" issue (see my post "Local (Deployment) VM Can't Reach "centos-ceph-pacific" Repo") and so simplified the deployment command to `hosted-engine --deploy`. Unfortunately this still results in a "Host is not up" error, with the logs as per before. - As mentioned elsewhere in this thread I uploaded the (previous) logs to Dropbox along with a couple of other relevant(?) files: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/eymwdy8hzn3sa7z/AACscSP2eaFfoiN-QzyeEVfaa?dl=0 - I followed the suggestion of ajude.pereira (see post in this thread) but this did not resolve the issue. - As per one of my other posts in this thread, digging into the logs further revealed this issue: "Failed to authenticate session with host 'ovirt_node_1.mynet.local': SSH authentication to 'root(a)ovirt_node_1.mynet.local' failed. Please verify provided credentials. Make sure key is authorized at host" - I also did a `hosted-engine --deploy --ansible-extra-vars=he_pause_host=true` (as per the suggestion of Konstantin - see post in this thread) and tried to work out why ssh wasn't working. I ssh'd into the deployment VM and then attempted to ssh back into the deployment host (ie `ssh root(a)ovirt_node_1.mynet.local`). While I could connect, I was asked for the root's password. I was under the impression that this was supposed to be a "password-less" operation. As I do not provide the root(a)ovirt_node_1.mynet.local password anywhere in the deployment script, I suspect that this is why I'm getting the "Host is not up" error. - To reiterate: the host'd sshd_config file is configured as per the oVirt documentation. So am I wrong in my understanding of the password-less ssh-nature of the situation and how the deployment script is supposed to work? Also, does *anyone* have any pointers, suggestions, or can otherwise help me out - thanks. Cheers Dulux-Oz