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

Thu Jul 21 14:56:09 EDT 2016

OK, it seems that a snapshot was having the files but linux didn't saw
a change between the images as the size was still the same.

I'm going to dd back :)

2016-07-21 20:04 GMT+02:00 Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com>:
> OK, it seems that my config volume for the hosted engine is empty, I
> cannot tar anything out of it and I'm quite sure it has been empty for
> ever as I got some strange warning every time.
>
> Is there a way to recover that from files ? Backups/snapshots are empty so...
>
> 2016-07-21 13:43 GMT+02:00 Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>:
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The deploy went OK from the GUI but it's still not "active" as Hosted
>>> engine Host. The install also wen very fast so it looked like it
>>> didn't do anything witl the deploy setting in the GUI @ the hosted
>>> engine tab.
>>
>> The difference with a standard host is just that it should create
>> /etc/ovirt-hosted-engine/hosted-engine.conf and start ovirt-ha-agent
>> and ovirt-ha-broker so it shouldn't be that longer.
>>
>> At the end, due to the issue with syncing the local maintenance mode
>> from the engine, you have to connect to the host and run
>> 'hosted-engine -set-maintenance --mode=none' from there.
>>
>> Can you please post the result of
>> hosted-engine --vm-status and the status of ovirt-ha-agent?
>>
>>> Or should I re-deploy again on the commandline after adding the host
>>> through the GUI ?
>>>
>>> About the initial GW, I didn't see that in the GUI.
>>>
>>> 2016-07-21 12:31 GMT+02:00 Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>:
>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> No problem I checked it out and applied it, no solution it seems.
>>>>
>>>> Do you mean that it's still referring to your initial gateway or that
>>>> the deploy failed?
>>>>
>>>>> 2016-07-21 12:14 GMT+02:00 Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>:
>>>>>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 12:09 PM, Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> OK, I did a deploy from the engine and the Hosted is "Not Active" and
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, sorry, I forgot to mention that.
>>>>>> We have an open bug about re-activating an hosted-engine host from the
>>>>>> engine: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1353600
>>>>>> Connecting to the host and exiting the maintenance mode from there is
>>>>>> the temporary solution.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Engine HA is empty on 4.0.1
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2016-07-21 11:58 GMT+02:00 Matt . <yamakasi.014 at gmail.com>:
>>>>>>>> True, but you can up an IP on any device in that case because you know
>>>>>>>> what you are doing.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think that this can be finetuned, or at least multiple IPs would be
>>>>>>>> nice as I now need to add one IP from my vrrp setup, so if there is a
>>>>>>>> failover.... or I need to take down the second switch I'm also done.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2016-07-21 10:23 GMT+02:00 Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>:
>>>>>>>>> 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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