Oracle VM: Unable to Add New OVM Server To Pool with "o2cb: Bad IP Address" error (Doc ID 2087861.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 04, 2020

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Unable to add new fresh-installed OVM Server to Pool with "o2cb: Bad IP Address" error.

AdminServer.log:

<2015-07-03T18:11:44.957+0200> <Error> <com.oracle.ovm.mgr.api.job.InternalJob> <hostname> <AdminServer> <Odof Tcp Client Thread: /127.0.0.1:54321/32048233> <> <> <8af00fc3-d88b-4ccd-835a-decc7755e1e4-00000003> <1435939904957> <BEA-000000> <Job: Add Server: <hostname> to Server Pool: <server pool>, Time: 1435939903588, Internal Error (Operation) OVMAPI_4010E Attempt to send command: update_cluster_configuration to server: OVS2 failed. OVMAPI_4004E Sync command failed on server: <IP>. Command: update_cluster_configuration, Server error: org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException: <type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'>:Command: ['/sbin/o2cb', '--config-file=/etc/ocfs2/cluster.conf', 'add-node', '--ip=', '--port=7777', '--number=0', 'bbd23c3b6a044fd0', 'hostname'] failed (1): stderr: o2cb: Bad IP Address '' stdout: [Fri Jul 03 18:11:44 CEST 2015] [Fri Jul 03 18:11:44 CEST 2015]com.oracle.ovm.mgr.api.exception.FailedOperationException: OVMAPI_4010E Attempt to send command: update_cluster_configuration to server: <hostname> failed. OVMAPI_4004E Sync command failed on server: <IP>. Command: update_cluster_configuration,Server error: org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException: <type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'>:Command: ['/sbin/o2cb', '--config-file=/etc/ocfs2/cluster.conf', 'add-node', '--ip=', '--port=7777', '--number=0', 'bbd23c3b6a044fd0', 'hostname'] failed (1): stderr: o2cb: Bad IP Address ''stdout:

[Fri Jul 03 18:11:44 CEST 2015] [Fri Jul 03 18:11:44 CEST 2015]
at com.oracle.ovm.mgr.action.ActionEngine.sendCommandToServer(ActionEngine.java:502) at com.oracle.ovm.mgr.action.ActionEngine.sendServerCommand(ActionEngine.java:420)
...Server error: org.apache.xmlrpc.XmlRpcException: <type 'exceptions.RuntimeError'>:Command: ['/sbin/o2cb', '--config-file=/etc/ocfs2/cluster.conf', 'add-node', '--ip=', '--port=7777', '--number=0', 'bbd23c3b6a044fd0', 'hostname'] failed (1): stderr: o2cb: Bad IP Address '' 

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