[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 12:28 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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