[Users] host power managment failures

[Eli Mesika]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>
> To: "Joop" <jvdwege at xs4all.nl>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>, jorick at netbulae.eu, "Eli Mesika" <emesika at redhat.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 9:29:33 PM
> Subject: Re: [Users] host power managment failures
> 
> 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 

Just a small correction here, by default check for a proxy host searches first in cluster and if not found in DC.
Anyway, it seems that this failed as no other proxy was available at the time of the PM test in the DC

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
>