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

[Douglas Schilling Landgraf]

On 12/27/2015 12:49 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <alonbl at redhat.com 
> <mailto: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 <http://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).

Although we provided the uuid option in vdsm-tool register verb to users 
force uuid, I have sent the below patch which should handle 
automatically such case.

https://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/47385/

> Y.
>
>
>     Alternatively, configure root password and add the node via engine.
>
>     Regards,
>     Alon Bar-Lev.
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     > From: "gregor" <gregor_forum at catrix.at
>     <mailto:gregor_forum at catrix.at>>
>     > To: "users" <users at ovirt.org <mailto: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
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