[Users] host power managment failures

[Itamar Heim]

On 03/16/2013 04:43 PM, Joop wrote:
> Jorick Astrego wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Having the same problem here. I installed the 3 nodes from iso and
>>> registered them to oVirt. In ovirt I approved them and added the
>>> Power Management settings. The source list is empty and Test fails
>>> with the message there is no other host to test it from.
>>>
>>> 2
>>>
>>> Installing the node from ovirt with ssh appears to work ok, there I
>>> see as source cluster and dc to test it.
>>>
>>
>> Just found out if I register the node and approve without power
>> management, I can then edit the node and enable/test powermanagent.
>> Approving the node and enabling power management at the same time
>> fails.....
>>
> If you try to register the FIRST node and try to set powermanagment then
> it will fail. Reason is because the check is done from another host in
> the cluster en since there is none it will error. Have been bitten by
> this multiple times when adding a host and thinking I could start adding
> a second before the first was ready. Adding a second and third in
> parallel when the first is ready should be no problem.

jorick - if your use case isn't for the first node, please open a bug 
with details.
Joop - if you got bitten, worth opening a bug to fix this to warn 
others... please do.

thanks,
    Itamar