Hello,

playing with an environment where I have a CentOS 7.1 + updates server with 3.6 repos configured.

no DNS resolution in place.

running the command

hosted-engine --deploy

I initially get, during the prompts inside setup, the message if I want to set hostname for the sh engine and if I want to setup /etc/hosts of hypervisor and sh engine so that it will add them with clud-init, that translates in these lines inside log file:

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context.dumpEnvironment:510 ENV OVEHOSTED_VM/cloudinitInstanceDomainName=str:'localdomain.local'

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context.dumpEnvironment:510 ENV OVEHOSTED_VM/cloudinitInstanceHostName=str:'shengine.localdomain.local'

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context.dumpEnvironment:510 ENV OVEHOSTED_VM/cloudinitRootPwd=str:'**FILTERED**'

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context.dumpEnvironment:510 ENV OVEHOSTED_VM/cloudinitVMDNS=str:'192.168.122.1'

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context.dumpEnvironment:510 ENV OVEHOSTED_VM/cloudinitVMETCHOSTS=bool:'True'

But then I get the error related to failure of sh engine hostname resolution and installation terminates, with these finale lines in log file.....

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context.dumpEnvironment:510 ENV SYSTEM/reboot=bool:'False'

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context.dumpEnvironment:510 ENV SYSTEM/rebootAllow=bool:'True'

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context.dumpEnvironment:510 ENV SYSTEM/rebootDeferTime=int:'10'

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context.dumpEnvironment:514 ENVIRONMENT DUMP - END

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:142 Stage pre-terminate METHOD otopi.plugins.otopi.dialog.cli.Plugin._pre_terminate

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:148 condition False

2015-10-21 15:45:29 INFO otopi.context context.runSequence:427 Stage: Termination

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context.runSequence:431 STAGE terminate

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:142 Stage terminate METHOD otopi.plugins.otopi.dialog.human.Plugin._terminate

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:142 Stage terminate METHOD otopi.plugins.otopi.dialog.machine.Plugin._terminate

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:148 condition False

2015-10-21 15:45:29 DEBUG otopi.context context._executeMethod:142 Stage terminate METHOD otopi.plugins.otopi.core.log.Plugin._terminate

and the message of a generated answer file.

Why does it ask and then fails?

Can I re-run using the answer file? In this case do I have to pre-insert sh engine hostname inside /etc/hosts of hypervisor?

Thanks.

Gianluca