[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 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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