Hosted Engine Appliance hostname causing issues in production environment

Friday, 13 May 2016

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Hello;

I discovered, the hard way, that the appliance is configured with the hostn=
ame of localhost.localdomain.localdomain
It seems that something did not go well with the hosted-engine -deploy
I can go into the engine VM and edit the hostname, but if for any reason I =
need to poweroff the engine VM, I get in trouble. Because, then the hostnam=
e goes back to localhost.localdomain.localdomain and both DHCP & DNS within=
 our enterprise/production environment ends up assuming that for the hostna=
me to IP address reference or record. And it seems that other linux systems=
 (not the ones I administer; none of my almost 50 systems are effected. Of =
those, I have about 5 linux/UNIX based systems attached to the production n=
etwork) are going offline because of this.
I assume they do not have their HOSTS file configured correctly, but they (=
the other administrators) are not listening to me. I have already told them=
 what to look for, in order to fix the issue on their own systems, but they=
've ended up with this now for the third time.
This is because I work for a local government and we have various administr=
ators for the various agencies within our County government.
I have unplugged my initial physical host from our County network and I thi=
nk I'm going to end up bringing up a physical engine host, then work on con=
verting that to a VM for a hosted engine. I hope that is going to work. I t=
ried bringing up the OVA of the appliance within VirtualBox, but that doesn=
't work. Is there another virtual software I can bring up within a Windows =
PC to simply edit the hostname, then export the appliance again?
I think the appliance for download needs to be changed to have something ot=
her than "localhost.localdomain.localdomain" as the hostname in the hosted-=
engine appliance. I downloaded the OVA file from the Jenkins.ovirt.org site=
.

Sincerely,
-Robert

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 Hello;<o:p></o:p></p...
 <o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p...
 I discovered, the hard
way, that the appliance is co=
nfigured with the hostname of
localhost.localdomain.localdomain<o:p></o:p><=
/p...
 It seems that something
did not go well with the hos=
ted-engine &#8211;deploy<o:p></o:p></p...
 I can go into the engine VM and edit the hostname, b=
ut if for any reason I need to poweroff the engine VM, I get in trouble. Be=
cause, then the hostname goes back to localhost.localdomain.localdomain and=
 both DHCP &amp; DNS within our enterprise/production
 environment ends up assuming that for the hostname to IP address reference=
 or record. And it seems that other linux systems (not the ones I administe=
r; none of my almost 50 systems are effected. Of those, I have about 5 linu=
x/UNIX based systems attached to
 the production network) are going offline because of
this.<o:p></o:p></p...
 I assume they do not have their HOSTS file configure=
d correctly, but they (the other administrators) are not listening to me. I=
 have already told them what to look for, in order to fix the issue on thei=
r own systems, but they&#8217;ve ended up
 with this now for the third time.<o:p></o:p></p...
 This is because I work
for a local government and we=
 have various administrators for the various agencies within our County gov=
ernment.<o:p></o:p></p...
 I have unplugged my initial physical host from our C=
ounty network and I think I&#8217;m going to end up bringing up a physical =
engine host, then work on converting that to a VM for a hosted engine. I ho=
pe that is going to work. I tried bringing
 up the OVA of the appliance within VirtualBox, but that doesn&#8217;t work=
. Is there another virtual software I can bring up within a Windows PC to s=
imply edit the hostname, then export the appliance again?<o:p></o:p></p...
 I think the appliance
for download needs to be chang=
ed to have something other than &#8220;localhost.localdomain.localdomain&#8=
221; as the hostname in the hosted-engine appliance. I downloaded the OVA f=
ile from the Jenkins.ovirt.org site.<o:p></o:p></p...
 <o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p...
 Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p...
 -Robert<o:p></o:p></p...

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