[ovirt-users] Hosted Engine crash - state = EngineUp-EngineUpBadHealth

[Will Dennis]

OK, another problem :(

I was having the same problem with my second oVirt host that I had with my first one, where when I ran “hosted-engine —deploy” on it, after it completed successfully, then I was experiencing a ~50sec lag when SSH’ing into the node…

vpnp71:~ will$ time ssh root at ovirt-node-02 uptime
 19:36:06 up 4 days,  8:31,  0 users,  load average: 0.68, 0.70, 0.67

real  0m50.540s
user  0m0.025s
sys 0m0.008s


So, in the oVirt web admin console, I put the "ovirt-node-02” node into Maintenance mode, then SSH’d to the server and rebooted it. Sure enough, after the server came back up, SSH was fine (no delay), which again was the same experience I had had with the first oVirt host. So, I went back to the web console, and choose the “Confirm host has been rebooted” option, which I thought would be the right action to take after a reboot. The system opened a dialog box with a spinner, which never stopped spinning… So finally, I closed the dialog box with the upper right (X) symbol, and then for this same host choose “Activate” from the menu. It was then I noticed I had recieved a state transition email notifying me that "EngineUp-EngineUpBadHealth” and sure enough, the web UI was then unresponsive. I checked on the first oVirt host, the VM with the name “HostedEngine” is still running, but obviously isn’t working… 

So, looks like I need to restart the HostedEngine VM or take whatever action is needed to return oVirt to operation… Hate to keep asking this question, but what’s the correct action at this point?

Thanks, again,
Will