[ovirt-users] Hosted Engine Appliance hostname causing issues in production environment

[Langley, Robert]

I’m not quite sure about configuring the appliance with cloud-init. I think I might know what you mean. Maybe that is the part of the setup that did not happen for me.
I ended up creating my own hosted engine with a CDROM ISO to get me going today.
Thank you.

From: Simone Tiraboschi [mailto:stirabos at redhat.com]
Sent: Friday, May 13, 2016 8:20 AM
To: Langley, Robert <Robert.Langley at ventura.org>
Cc: users <users at ovirt.org>
Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Hosted Engine Appliance hostname causing issues in production environment


Il 13 Mag 2016 1:29 AM, "Langley, Robert" <Robert.Langley at ventura.org<mailto:Robert.Langley at ventura.org>> ha scritto:
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> Hello;
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> I discovered, the hard way, that the appliance is configured with the hostname of localhost.localdomain.localdomain
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> It seems that something did not go well with the hosted-engine –deploy

Did you try configuring the appliance with cloud-init?
Can you please attach hosted-engine-setup logs?

> I can go into the engine VM and edit the hostname, but if for any reason I need to poweroff the engine VM, I get in trouble. Because, then the hostname goes back to localhost.localdomain.localdomain and both DHCP & DNS within our enterprise/production environment ends up assuming that for the hostname to IP address reference or record. And it seems that other linux systems (not the ones I administer; none of my almost 50 systems are effected. Of those, I have about 5 linux/UNIX based systems attached to the production network) are going offline because of this.
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> I assume they do not have their HOSTS file configured correctly, but they (the other administrators) are not listening to me. I have already told them what to look for, in order to fix the issue on their own systems, but they’ve ended up with this now for the third time.
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> This is because I work for a local government and we have various administrators for the various agencies within our County government.
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> I have unplugged my initial physical host from our County network and I think I’m going to end up bringing up a physical engine host, then work on converting that to a VM for a hosted engine. I hope that is going to work. I tried bringing up the OVA of the appliance within VirtualBox, but that doesn’t work. Is there another virtual software I can bring up within a Windows PC to simply edit the hostname, then export the appliance again?
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> I think the appliance for download needs to be changed to have something other than “localhost.localdomain.localdomain” as the hostname in the hosted-engine appliance. I downloaded the OVA file from the Jenkins.ovirt.org<http://Jenkins.ovirt.org> site.
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> Sincerely,
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> -Robert
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