[gpfsug-discuss] Weirdness with 'mmces address add'

[Jan-Frode Myklebust]

I believe your first guess is correct. The ces-ip needs to be resolvable
for some reason... Just put a name for it in /etc/hosts, if you can't add
it to your dns.


-jf
ons. 7. sep. 2016 kl. 20.45 skrev Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
>:

> We're in the middle of deploying Spectrum Archive, and I've hit a
> snag.  We assigned some floating IP addresses, which now need to
> be changed.  So I look at the mmces manpage, and it looks like I need
> to add the new addresses, and delete the old ones.
>
> We're on GPFS 4.2.1.0, if that matters...
>
> What 'man mmces' says:
>
> 1. To add an address to a specified node, issue this command:
>
>    mmces address add --ces-node node1 --ces-ip 10.1.2.3
>
> (and at least 6 or 8 more uses of an IP address).
>
> What happens when I try it:  (And yes, we have an 'isb' ces-group defined
> with
> addresses in it already)
>
> # mmces address add --ces-group isb --ces-ip 172.28.45.72
> Cannot resolve 172.28.45.72; Name or service not known
> mmces address add: Incorrect value for --ces-ip option
> Usage:
>   mmces address add [--ces-node Node] [--attribute Attribute] [--ces-group
> Group]
>      {--ces-ip {IP[,IP...]}
>
> Am I missing some special sauce? (My first guess is that it's complaining
> because there's no PTR in the DNS for that address yet - but if it was
> going
> to do DNS lookups, it should be valid to give a hostname rather than an IP
> address (and nowhere in the manpage does it even *hint* that --ces-ip can
> be anything other than a list of IP addresses).
>
> Or is it time for me to file a PMR?
>
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