On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 7:41 PM, Will Dennis <wdennis@nec-labs.com> wrote:

n/m, found this URL cleverly concealed in the output of “—help” ;)

http://www.ovirt.org/Ovirt-engine-backup

Still would be good to know how I could get a console...

You have more options:

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.

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.

3. You could directly connect to it with VNC/spice also from other hosts:

on the host where the engine VM runs:

[root@c72het20151222h1 vdsm_logs]# hosted-engine --add-console-password

Enter password:

code = 0

message = 'Done'

on your machine:

/bin/remote-viewer vnc://<host_ip>:5900

4. You could use the VM virtio serial console if the VM is configured for that (and the engine appliance is) as described here:

http://www.ovirt.org/Serial_Console_Setup#I_need_to_access_the_console_the_old_way

From: Will Dennis
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 1:37 PM
To: 'Simone Tiraboschi'
Cc: users
Subject: RE: [ovirt-users] How to run "engine-backup"?

Are there any docs on using this (other than the ‘—help” option text)?

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?

From: Simone Tiraboschi [mailto:stirabos@redhat.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2015 11:44 AM
To: Will Dennis
Cc: users
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] How to run "engine-backup"?

yes, engine-backup is on the engine VM :-)