[ovirt-users] New host HE 4.0 -> [ ERROR ] Failed to execute stage 'Environment customization': Specified gateway is not pingable

[Simone Tiraboschi]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:03 AM, Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, I will check this laster on, as I was having issues with the
> deploy from the GUI before as nothing really happened, I thought it
> was a bug on the first 4.0 release ?
>
> I think this should be investigated, the whole deployment as it would
> be good to have the possibility to list some GW's in case you use
> failover.
>
> I was even thinking of setting the engine IP there, should be working
> as good as also.

Not really since the agent is pinging also when the engine VM is down
due to maintenance.

> 2016-07-21 9:53 GMT+02:00 Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>:
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:47 AM, Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> OK, I already thought that but where is this saved as I don't have any
>>> rights as root to the ha_agent folder on the HE storage ?
>>
>> It's not a folder: it's a tar file directly saved over a VDSM volume.
>> Editing it's a bit tricky.
>>
>>> In worst case scenario, how would i be able to deploy a new hosted
>>> engine from a hosted engine ? This sounds undoable to me and also
>>> unwanted as the HE is OK so far.
>>
>> With a 4.0 engine, when you choose to deploy a new host from the
>> webadmin or from the rest API you can also choose to deploy it as an
>> hosted-engine host if the engine has been deployed with hosted-engine.
>> In this case, if I'm not wrong, you can also specify a different gateway value.
>>
>>
>>> 2016-07-21 9:41 GMT+02:00 Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Even when I change that on each host before I do a new deploy it still
>>>>> uses the old GW address.
>>>>
>>>> If you deploy additional hosts with the CLI utility, each new host
>>>> will be deployed consuming the answerfile generated by the first host
>>>> and saved on the shared storage.
>>>> You have to manually tweak there if you to avoid.
>>>>
>>>> Another smarted option is to deploy additional HE host from the
>>>> webadmin interface.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 2016-07-21 9:24 GMT+02:00 Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>:
>>>>>> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 11:57 PM, Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> OK, I tried to edit the answerfiles on the other hosts to use another
>>>>>>> IP but it doesn't ping and still uses the old GW address.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Any idea ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The gateway address is saved under
>>>>>> /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf
>>>>>> on each host.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2016-07-20 22:27 GMT+02:00 Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>> Maybe it's a good idea to be able to add multiple addresses it should
>>>>>>>> ping in order of response.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2016-07-20 22:13 GMT+02:00 Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com>:
>>>>>>>>> Il 20/Lug/2016 10:06 PM, "Matt ." <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm trying to add a host to a HE installation but my gateway is not
>>>>>>>>>> pingable. It's a floating IP which is usable but not pingable in this
>>>>>>>>>> case.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> During the first install of the HE I could give any IP to ping and I
>>>>>>>>>> used a source IP for the floating GW address.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> What can I do to get around this as the network is OK, even when the
>>>>>>>>>> GW is not pingable.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I think that gw not pingable will be interpreted as network failure by the
>>>>>>>>> agent and will lower the score of the hosts.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Any idea is welcome!
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks!
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