Ignite-ux - wrong hostname

[SAM_24]

Hi,

This is 11.11 install. Using golden image ignite server installed successfully on new system. Ignite log says install is success. When the first reboot NFS client service was failing.I took the system into single user mode and disabled NFS services.

I am able to bring the system up. Now the problem is hostname is wrong. Though netconf and hosts file has correct hostname my new client sets the hostname same as ignite server.

What is wrong? Where it is getting wrong info?

Help.

Thanks.

[Scott Van Kalken]

try using /sbin/set_parms to set the hostname afterwards.

Take another ignite, then try reinstalling it.

My guess is that the ignite is from a different machine of the same hardware.

[Sukant Naik]

Hi Raj,

Do the following,

As root:
# set_parms hostname

This will reset the hostname in the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file.

This must solve your issue.

-Sukant

[SAM_24]

I got the answer.
Under /etc/rc.config.d there was one file named netconf_template. I removed this file and rebooted the system. Everything is working fine.

Any thoughts why system is using this file?

Thanks.

[Darrell Allen]

Hi Raj,

When /etc/rc.config sources files in /etc/rc.config.d, it checks for typical names used for backup files and skips them. If the name of a file in /etc/rc.config.d doesn't match one of those, it is sourced.

See this thread:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x87bd53921f1ad5118fef0090279cd0f9,00.html

Also look at /etc/rc.config

Darrell

[Noam Meltzer]

The hostname should be supplied through a DHCP request.
When you first boot the server with "boot lan install" you should put the server on the same hub with a machine with a sniffer.
Now, watch how it broadcasts "DHCP Discover" and inside the packet itself, what it requests and what your DHCP server supplies it. (AKA. "DHCP Offer","DHCP Request", and "DHCP Ack")

If you'll watch closely you'll see that the clients request, asks for an hostname. If your DHCP server does not return it to ther client, the client just won't know its name from itself.

Noam