[ovirt-users] Single server hosted engine... almost there

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

Ensure dnsmasq is working and can be accessed by the engine VM?
Log in to the engine VM and test from there?
Maybe set up *real* DNS?

-derek

On Wed, December 7, 2016 3:41 pm, Mark Steckel wrote:
> Hi Derek,
>
> ----- Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> The error is correct, hosted-engine-1.pcstrac.com is not a valid
>> hostname:
>>
>> $ host hosted-engine-1.pcstrac.com
>> $
>>
>> I'm lost, tho -- was this an error that occurred on the host during
>> hosted-engine --deploy, or was it an error that occurred in the hosted
>> enging VM when running engine-setup?
>
> I believe when it occurred when the running the engine-setup.
>
>
>> If the former, you need to ensure that you have a real DNS name for your
>> ovirt engine.  It's unclear (to me) that using /etc/hosts is sufficient.
>> However looking at the logs, it looks like it can locally resolve (to
>> xx.yy.18.122).
>
> Yep. I tested things to make sure it could resolve before I started the
> 'hosted-engine --deploy'.
>
>> You might need to answer "Yes" to the /etc/hosts question..
>
> I did answer "Yes".
>
>
>> The log seems to get far enough along that it presents you the engine vm
>> console URL?  It looks like the issue is that the engine vm cannot
>> resolve
>> its own name.
>
> That is my take as well.
>
> Scratching my head as I config'ed dnsmasq to provide local dns and to read
> from /etc/hosts for hosted-engine-1.pcstrac.com.
>
> The only thing I think I flubbed was neglecting to add the host's IP to
> the host's /etc/resolv.conf.
>
> Scrubbing and staring again.
>
> Mark
>
>
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> On Wed, December 7, 2016 3:13 pm, Mark Steckel wrote:
>> > Folks,
>> >
>> > Thanks to Didi in another thread I'm making progress. (Lesson learned,
>> > choose 'disk' and not 'cdrom' when using the he-appliance.)
>> >
>> > So I reset to a fresh CentOS 7, installed various software packages
>> > including ovirt.
>> >
>> > I configed eth0 with a /32 public IP. I also added an alias for a
>> > x.x.x.1/29 on eth0:1.
>> >
>> > Finally I config'ed dnsmasq to provide both dhcp and dns (ensuring
>> that it
>> > will read from /etc/hosts before forwarding dns requests) and added
>> the
>> > IPs and hostsnames to /etc/hosts from the /29 IPs which are to be used
>> by
>> > the VMs.
>> >
>> > Things proceeded nicely till resolving the he vm fqdn. (I tested to
>> make
>> > sure that the he vm fqdm would resolve **Before** I ran 'hosted-engine
>> > --deploy'.)
>> >
>> >           |-           --== NETWORK CONFIGURATION ==--
>> >           |-
>> >           |- [ ERROR ] Host name is not valid:
>> hosted-engine-1.pcstrac.com
>> > did not resolve into an IP address
>> >           |- [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Environment
>> > customization': Host name is not valid:
>> > hosted-engine-1.pcstrac.com did not resolve into an IP address
>> >           |- [ INFO  ] Stage: Clean up
>> >           |-           Log file is located at
>> > /var/log/ovirt-engine/setup/ovirt-engine-setup-20161207193757-6i03xg.log
>> >           |- [ INFO  ] Generating answer file
>> > '/var/lib/ovirt-engine/setup/answers/20161207193758-setup.conf'
>> >           |- [ INFO  ] Stage: Pre-termination
>> >           |- [ INFO  ] Stage: Termination
>> >           |- [ ERROR ] Execution of setup failed
>> >           |- HE_APPLIANCE_ENGINE_SETUP_FAIL
>> >     [ ERROR ] Engine setup failed on the appliance
>> >     [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Closing up': Engine setup
>> failed on
>> > the appliance Please check its log on the appliance.
>> >
>> >
>> > The one thing I forgot is to update /etc/resolv.conf to include the
>> host
>> > though I don't know if this matters...
>> >
>> > Logs attached.
>> >
>> > I suspect I've very close to having this working but am admittedly
>> > stumped.
>> >
>> > Pointers appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Mark
>> >
>> >
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>>
>>
>> --
>>        Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>>        derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
>>        Computer and Internet Security Consultant
>>
>
>


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       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
       derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
       Computer and Internet Security Consultant