Hi all I currently have a non-operational second node in my "ovirt 4.0 hosted-engine" installation running on Centos7, kernel 3.10.0-514.10.2.el7.x86_64. When I ran "hosted-engine --deploy" on the second node, it produce the following error(see bottom of email). I now cannot set the second node into operational mode, no matter what I try. I did notice a few things though. #1 - no ovirtmgt bridge was created during hosted-engine deploy; should I create this bridge and retry? #2- vdsmd keep throwing start errors before I ran hosted-engine deploy. I ran vdsm-tool configure --force this seem to fix it. #3 - second node complained of no fencing agent, so I added in a DRAC fence agent and it worked/tested fine. But still not able to go opertional on second node. #4 Ive tried restarting vdsmd, ovirt-ha-agent and ovirt-ha-broker. Both the agent and broker throw error messages.(see bottom of email for errors) Any advice of where to look next, what to fix? ***Hosted-engine --deploy message*** [WARNING] Host left in non-operational state To finish deploying, please: - activate it - restart the hosted-engine high availability services by running on this machine: # service ovirt-ha-agent restart # service ovirt-ha-broker restart [ INFO ] Enabling and starting HA services [ INFO ] Stage: Clean up [ INFO ] Generating answer file '/var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-setup/answers/answers-20170307062116.conf' [ INFO ] Generating answer file '/etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/answers.conf' [ INFO ] Stage: Pre-termination [ INFO ] Stage: Termination [ INFO ] Hosted Engine successfully deployed ***ovirt-ha-agent error message*** ovirt-ha-agent ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.agent.hosted_engine.HostedEngine.config ERROR Unable to get vm.conf from OVF_STORE, falling back to initial vm.conf ***ovirt-ha-broker error message*** ovirt-ha-broker ovirt_hosted_engine_ha.broker.notifications.Notifications ERROR Connection unexpectedly closed Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ovirt_hosted_engine_ha/broker/notifications.py", line 34, in send_email message.as_string()) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 749, in sendmail self.rset() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 468, in rsetreturn self.docmd("rset") File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 393, in docmdreturn self.getreply() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/smtplib.py", line 367, in getreplyraise SMTPServerDisconnected("Connection unexpectedly closed") SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed -- Ian Neilsen Mobile: 0424 379 762 Linkedin: http://au.linkedin.com/in/ianneilsen Twitter : ineilsen