[ovirt-users] Add node to engine 3.6: "no unique id"

[Yaniv Kaul]

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl at redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This usually happens when bios does not report unique id.
>
> At node, exit to shell using F2 then:
> # uuidgen > /etc/vdsm/vdsm.id
> And retry registration.
>

Perhaps host installation script should perform this automatically if it
cannot find a unique ID?
(In the case where it's not an issue of a non-unique ID, but rather no ID
whatsoever, which I believe is the common case, though we have seen vendors
supplying the same UUID across their BIOS for all their servers in the past
as well).
Y.


>
> Alternatively, configure root password and add the node via engine.
>
> Regards,
> Alon Bar-Lev.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "gregor" <gregor_forum at catrix.at>
> > To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 27, 2015 3:37:00 PM
> > Subject: [ovirt-users] Add node to engine 3.6: "no unique id"
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I added a oVirt node (3.6) to my engine (3.6) and get the following
> > message when I try to activate it:
> >
> > ---------------
> > Cannot activate Host. Host has no unique id.
> > ---------------
> >
> > Image: ovirt-node-iso-3.6-0.999.201512132115.el7.centos.iso
> >
> > regards
> > gregor
> > _______________________________________________
> > Users mailing list
> > Users at ovirt.org
> > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> >
> _______________________________________________
> Users mailing list
> Users at ovirt.org
> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20151227/96f9599d/attachment-0001.html>