Dear Community: The local drive on a host running ovirt-node-ng-4.1.9 in a three node cluster failed. I have production JIRA and Postres running on it at the time, not in HA, just simple vm's. Storage is via NFS on a Synology NAS. Hosted Engine was on a different host, but JIRA and Postgres vm's showed nonresponsive. I tried different things but then stupidly thought that upgrading my Hosted Engine would reinitialize the vm's that were on the failed host. Update of HE seemed to go well (output below) but now my Hosted Engine, while up, fails the liveliness check and the web management console is unavailable. I cannot console into the HE from the host it is running on. Below are the results of my attempts to console into the Hosted Engine. Please help! I have search forums, lists and Google but have not been able to fix this. My coworkers and manager are anxious. --- When I try "hosted-engine --console" after setting the console password I get The engine VM is running on this host Connected to domain HostedEngine Escape character is ^] _ The prompt is non-responsive except for the escape character key combo. --- "virsh -r list" gives ID 3, Name: HostedEngine, State: running "virsh -r console HostedEngine" gives Connected to domain HostedEngine Escape character is ^] error: operation forbidden: read only access prevents virDomainOpenConsole "virsh -r vncdisplay HostedEngine" gives "0:0" and returns me to prompt --- I am SSHed into the host running my Hosted Engine from a CentOS7 minimal install with packages xorg-x11-server-Xorg, xorg-x11-xauth and xorg-x11-apps installed. The result of "grep -i X11Forwarding /etc/ssh/sshd_config" shows it set to "Yes". I SSH into the host using "ssh -Y root(a)xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" I am logged into the CentOS7 minimal install as root. I know root is poor practice but was trying to minimize anything that could be causing an issue. --- Below are the results of my attempt to update Hosted Engine (slightly redacted to remove personal info): --== CONFIGURATION PREVIEW ==-- Default SAN wipe after delete : False Firewall manager : firewalld Update Firewall : True Host FQDN : ovengineint.xdomainx.tld Upgrade packages : True Engine database secured connection : False Engine database user name : engine Engine database name : engine Engine database host : localhost Engine database port : 5432 Engine database host name validation : False Engine installation : True PKI organization : xdomainx.tld Set up ovirt-provider-ovn : True Configure WebSocket Proxy : True DWH installation : True DWH database secured connection : False DWH database host : localhost DWH database user name : ovirt_engine_history DWH database name : ovirt_engine_history DWH database port : 5432 DWH database host name validation : False Configure Image I/O Proxy : True Configure VMConsole Proxy : True --== SUMMARY ==-- [ INFO ] Restarting httpd Web access is enabled at: http://ovengineint.xdomainx.tld:80/ovirt-engine https://ovengineint.xdomainx.tld:443/ovirt-engine Internal CA XX:XX:XX:XX... SSH fingerprint: SHA256:xxxxxxxxxx... --== END OF SUMMARY ==-- [ INFO ] Stage: Clean up Log file is located at /var/log/ovirt-engine/setup/ovirt-engine-setup-20180502165652-88pkpi.log [ INFO ] Generating answer file '/var/lib/ovirt-engine/setup/answers/20180502170149-setup.conf' [ INFO ] Stage: Pre-termination [ INFO ] Stage: Termination [ INFO ] Execution of setup completed successfully Again, thank you so very much for any suggestions! I have found many answers on this mailing list archive to be of great insight and help. Respectfully, Charles