Adding Machine to Cluster results in LOCALHOST host name (Linux 10.1)

[StuartFletcher1]

Hi,

We have a 10.1 linux ArcGIS setup with two machines as part of a cluster. This has been functioning well however yesterday in order to backup the site we removed both machines from the cluster (cradle11d.thelist.tas.gov.au and cradle12d.thelist.tas.gov.au), backed the site configuration up and then created the site using the original site configuration and added the other machine to the cluster. This worked fine with the exception of the cradle11d.thelist.tas.gov.au machine now being recorded in the site configuration (machines) as LOCALHOST. We have since tried creating the site on both nodes and adding the other node, this still results in the incorrect hostname for cradle11d.thelist.tas.gov.au.

Prior to the backup the machine name AGS was using was cradle11d.thelist.tas.gov.au. I have confirmed that the linux hostname is correct (cradle11d.thelist.tas.gov.au) and also the value recorded in postinstall.dat is correct (cradle11d.thelist.tas.gov.au).

Has anyone experienced this behavior and/or deos anyone know where AGS server would be picking this hostname up from.

Thanks,

Stuart Fletcher

[Peter_von_Minden · Accepted solution]

Have you checked your host name on each machine? Try typing ping <hostname> on each machine and check the reply. If localhost is returned on either machine, check the host file.

[StuartFletcher1]

Thanks Peter,

That helped me find the issue which was an entry in the bottom of /etc/hosts that looked like this:

127.0.0.1 cradle11d.thelist.tas.gov.au

Removing the entry fixed the issue.