[ovirt-users] Hosted Engine: Cannot initialise host

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 09:22:02AM +0300, Yedidyah Bar David wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Alan Murrell <lists at murrell.ca> wrote:
> > I have installed a hosted engine setup on a single host.  The host is
> > running CentOS 7 and the engine is Centos 6.6.
> >
> > Prior to running through the engine deployment, I created the
> > ifcfg-ovirtmgmt file and set my primary network interface, "eno1", as part
> > of that bridge.    I did this because when I have attempted deployment in
> > the past, the deployment ran into some problems creating the 'ovirtmgmt'
> > bridge.
> 
> If at all possible, please try that again. If there are still unsolved
> bugs, we'd
> like to know.
> 
> >  I do recall during the deployment script, the output did indicate
> > that it saw the 'ovirtmgmt' bridge was already present.  The deployment
> > *seemed* to go OK.
> 
> You might want to check/post also the output of 'vdsClient -s 0 getVdsCaps',
> especially 'bridges', 'networks' and 'nics' there.

    virsh -r dumpxml vdsm-ovirtmgmt

may be interesting, too. If you go native and define ovirtmgmt bridge on
your own, you should also define that network. Skipping network
definition might have worked in the past, but it would certainly not
work on 3.6.

> 
> >
> > Upon logging in to the admin portal, my host is not initialised; it has a
> > red "X".  The error indicated that the "ovirtmgmt" bridge was not assigned
> > to an interface.
> >
> > When I click on the host then "Network Interfaces", all my network
> > interfaces are showing red "down" arrows (which makes sense if the host is
> > not initialised).  When I click on "Setup Network Interfaces", it lists my
> > physical interfaces on the left and on the right, under "Unassigned Logical
> > networks" is "ovirtmgmt".
> >
> > I Assigned "ovirtmgmt" to interface "eno1", but when I click "OK", I get the
> > following message:
> >
> > --- START ---
> > Error while executing action:
> >
> > hosted_engine_1:
> >     * Network address must be specified when using static ip
> > --- END ---
> >
> > I tried to edit "ovirtmgmt" and assign the static IP, but the same error
> > comes up.
> >
> > Here are my files for 'ifcfg-eno1' and 'ifcfg-ovirtmgmt':
> >
> > --- START ifcfg-ovirtmgmt ---
> > TYPE="Bridge"
> > BOOTPROTO="static"
> > DEVICE="ovirtmgmt"
> > ONBOOT="yes"
> > DELAY="0"
> > IPADDR="10.215.1.21"
> > NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
> > GATEWAY="10.215.1.1"
> > --- END ifcfg-ovirtmgmt ---
> >
> > --- START ifcfg-eno1 ---
> > TYPE="Ethernet"
> > BOOTPROTO="none"
> > DEVICE="eno1"
> > ONBOOT="yes"
> > BRIDGE="ovirtmgmt"
> > --- END ifcfg-eno1 ---
> 
> I don't have currently a setup with static addresses, so it's just a guess:
> Perhaps you need 'NETWORK='?
> 
> >
> > Here is the output of 'brctl show':
> >
> > --- START ---
> > bridge name     bridge id               STP enabled     interfaces
> > ;vdsmdummy;             8000.000000000000       no
> > ovirtmgmt               8000.fc4dd4f2e238       no              eno1
> >                                                         vnet0
> > --- END ---
> >
> > It appears that the bridge exists, but the system (VDSM?) is not recognising
> > it nor able to create it.
> >
> > Any ideas what the issue is?  If you need a look at something else, please
> > let me know.  I may not be able to post it until later (my server is remote
> > to me until Wednesday so I won;t have immediate access), but I will post
> > whatever else you need to have a look at.
> 
> Well, you can check/post also vdsm and engine logs.
> 
> Adding Dan.
> 
> Best,
> -- 
> Didi