Re: [ovirt-users] Error during hosted-engine-setup for 3.5.1 on F20 (Cannot add the host to cluster ... SSH has failed)

----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com&gt; > To: "Simone Tiraboschi" <stirabos(a)redhat.com&gt; > Cc: "users-ovirt" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; > Sent: Monday, March 9, 2015 12:48:37 PM > Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Error during hosted-engine-setup for 3.5.1 on F20 (Cannot add the host to cluster ... SSH > has failed) > > > On 03/09/2015 07:12 AM, Simone Tiraboschi wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com&gt; >>> To: "Simone Tiraboschi" <stirabos(a)redhat.com&gt; >>> Sent: Monday, March 9, 2015 12:02:49 PM >>> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Error during hosted-engine-setup for 3.5.1 on >>> F20 (Cannot add the host to cluster ... SSH >>> has failed) >>> >>> On Mar 9, 2015 5:23 AM, "Simone Tiraboschi" <stirabos(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>>> From: "Bob Doolittle" <bob(a)doolittle.us.com&gt; >>>>> To: "users-ovirt" <users(a)ovirt.org&gt; >>>>> Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 9:21:20 PM >>>>> Subject: [ovirt-users] Error during hosted-engine-setup for 3.5.1 on >>> F20 (Cannot add the host to cluster ... SSH has >>>>> failed) >>>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm following the instructions here: >>> http://www.ovirt.org/Hosted_Engine_Howto >>>>> My self-hosted install failed near the end: >>>>> >>>>> To continue make a selection from the options below: >>>>> (1) Continue setup - engine installation is complete >>>>> (2) Power off and restart the VM >>>>> (3) Abort setup >>>>> (4) Destroy VM and abort setup >>>>> >>>>> (1, 2, 3, 4)[1]: 1 >>>>> [ INFO ] Engine replied: DB Up!Welcome to Health Status! >>>>> Enter the name of the cluster to which you want to add the >>> host >>>>> (Default) [Default]: >>>>> [ ERROR ] Cannot automatically add the host to cluster Default: Cannot >>> add >>>>> Host. Connecting to host via SSH has failed, verify that the host is >>>>> reachable (IP address, routable address etc.) You may refer to the >>>>> engine.log file for further details. >>>>> [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Closing up': Cannot add the host to >>>>> cluster Default >>>>> [ INFO ] Stage: Clean up >>>>> [ INFO ] Generating answer file >>>>> '/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/answers/answers-20150306135624.conf' >>>>> [ INFO ] Stage: Pre-termination >>>>> [ INFO ] Stage: Termination >>>>> >>>>> I can ssh into the engine VM both locally and remotely. There is no >>>>> /root/.ssh directory, however. Did I need to set that up somehow? >>>> It's the engine that needs to open an SSH connection to the host calling >>> it by its hostname. >>>> So please be sure that you can SSH to the host from the engine using its >>> hostname and not its IP address. >>> >>> I'm assuming this should be a password-less login (key-based >>> authentication?). >> Yes, it is. >> >>> As what user? >> root > OK, I see a couple of problems. > First off, I didn't have my deploying-host hostname in the hosts map for my > engine. This is enough by itself to make the deploy procedure failing. If possible we recommend to rely a DNS infrastructure especially if you are deploying more than one host.