Can anybody help me? Or is the solution to build a new hosted engine and try recreating it from a backup? What do i have to do to get the Hosted Engine in Global Maintenance Mode when "hosted-engine --set-maintenance --mode=global" does not work ... Its very frustrating ... Best Regards J.Lutz

Hi Jiri, had to wait for the weekend due to maintenance windows, because its a production environment retried the whole steps from the ovirt manual: https://www.ovirt.org/documentation/administration_guide/#chap-Renewing_cert... hosted-engine --vm-status output: --== Host hostname.domain.tld (id: 4) status ==-- Host ID : 4 Host timestamp : 16410366 Score : 3400 Engine status : {"vm": "up", "health": "good", "detail": "Up"} Hostname : hostname.domain.tld Local maintenance : False stopped : False crc32 : b40d4217 conf_on_shared_storage : True local_conf_timestamp : 16410366 Status up-to-date : True Extra metadata (valid at timestamp): metadata_parse_version=1 metadata_feature_version=1 timestamp=16410366 (Sat Jul 16 15:32:45 2022) host-id=4 score=3400 vm_conf_refresh_time=16410366 (Sat Jul 16 15:32:45 2022) conf_on_shared_storage=True maintenance=False state=GlobalMaintenance stopped=False !! Cluster is in GLOBAL MAINTENANCE mode !! Then we executed "engine-setup --offline" on the hosted engine, with all the questions. Output (interesting part): --== PKI CONFIGURATION ==-- One or more of the certificates should be renewed, because they expire soon, or include an invalid expiry date, or they were created with validity period longer than 398 days, or do not include the subjectAltName extension, which can cause them to be rejected by recent browsers and up to date hosts. See https://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/infra/pki-renew/ for more details. Renew certificates? (Yes, No) [No]: yes --== APACHE CONFIGURATION ==-- --== SYSTEM CONFIGURATION ==-- --== MISC CONFIGURATION ==-- --== END OF CONFIGURATION ==-- [ INFO ] Stage: Setup validation During execution engine service will be stopped (OK, Cancel) [OK]: ok [ ERROR ] It seems that you are running your engine inside of the hosted-engine VM and are not in "Global Maintenance" mode. In that case you should put the system into the "Global Maintenance" mode before running engine-setup, or the hosted-engine HA agent might kill the machine, which might corrupt your data. [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Setup validation': Hosted Engine setup detected, but Global Maintenance is not set. [ INFO ] Stage: Clean up Log file is located at /var/log/ovirt-engine/setup/ovirt-engine-setup-20220716133117-2zf214.log [ INFO ] Generating answer file '/var/lib/ovirt-engine/setup/answers/20220716133134-setup.conf' [ INFO ] Stage: Pre-termination [ INFO ] Stage: Termination [ ERROR ] Execution of setup failed so we are stuck with a non working hosted engine. no step back and no step forward. I also tried to connect to three partners on https://www.ovirt.org/community/user-stories/users-and-providers.html site, and asked for paid help. But no one was answering till today. Does anybody knows and recommend some professional ovirt supporters, which we can ask to help? Is there anything else we can do? (Do we have to reset something in the postgres db?) Kind Regards J.Lutz