join of vRA appliance fails

[Fwa]

If the join of primary vRA appliance under load balancer fails during installation, what can be the cause or what logs can be useful to know the cause of issue?

The join of secondary vRA appliance under load balancer was succeeded as follows:

As written above, how should I -e option?

[gradinka]

that is a bit strange

what exactly is your setup?

with 2x VAs, you should be joining only VA2 to VA1. There isn't a part where you join VA1 to itself. That looks like a misconfig ?

[Fwa]

Thanks for your kind reply.

There are only two vRA appliances which are vrava-1 and vrava-2. In this case, the following config might be wrong?

Should I remove vrava-1 from the above setting? And, in this place, should I add only additional vRA appliance except for vRA appliance showing this Installation Wizard?

[gradinka · Accepted solution]

well yes - on this page you add only the additional appliances

e.g remove your first appliance from this list

for the next maintenance release,

we are adding additional checks on this page to make sure this does not happen.

[Fwa]

Really appreciated about your comment and additional checking in the next maintenance release.

PS

As you mentioned, I could find the message related to this issue according to /var/log/messages:

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2016-03-02T06:39:13.223688+00:00 vrava-1 vami /opt/vmware/share/htdocs/service/cafe/config.py[1374]: info Processing request GET /config/cluster-invite

2016-03-02T06:39:13.224325+00:00 vrava-1 vami /opt/vmware/share/htdocs/service/cafe/config.py[1374]: info match 0

2016-03-02T06:39:13.225293+00:00 vrava-1 vami /opt/vmware/share/htdocs/service/cafe/config.py[1374]: info match 2 False, URI:/config/cluster-invite

2016-03-02T06:39:13.228113+00:00 vrava-1 vami /opt/vmware/share/htdocs/service/cafe/config.py[1374]: ERROR match 2

2016-03-02T06:39:13.228750+00:00 vrava-1 vami /opt/vmware/share/htdocs/service/cafe/config.py[1374]: info Authenticating with sfcb server.

2016-03-02T06:39:13.228889+00:00 vrava-1 vami /opt/vmware/share/htdocs/service/cafe/config.py[1374]: info user:root

2016-03-02T06:39:13.267739+00:00 vrava-1 vami /opt/vmware/share/htdocs/service/cafe/config.py[1374]: info Authenticated user: root successfully

2016-03-02T06:39:13.267779+00:00 vrava-1 vami /opt/vmware/share/htdocs/service/cafe/config.py[1374]: info ########## START INVITATION OF NODE ###########

2016-03-02T06:39:13.267787+00:00 vrava-1 vami /opt/vmware/share/htdocs/service/cafe/config.py[1374]: info Executing shell command...

2016-03-02T06:39:15.675288+00:00 vrava-1 vami /opt/vmware/share/htdocs/service/cafe/config.py[1374]: ERROR Exception: Command execution failed with unexpected error: Node host to join to and the current node are the same!.

2016-03-02T06:39:15.741872+00:00 vrava-1 vami /usr/lib/vcac/agent/va-agent.py: info Return code is : 2

2016-03-02T06:39:15.741901+00:00 vrava-1 vami /usr/lib/vcac/agent/va-agent.py: info ---BEGIN---

2016-03-02T06:39:15.741909+00:00 vrava-1 vami /usr/lib/vcac/agent/va-agent.py: info 500 Internal Server Error

2016-03-02T06:39:15.741915+00:00 vrava-1 vami /usr/lib/vcac/agent/va-agent.py: info ---END---

2016-03-02T06:39:15.741921+00:00 vrava-1 vami /usr/lib/vcac/agent/va-agent.py: info

2016-03-02T06:39:15.741927+00:00 vrava-1 vami /usr/lib/vcac/agent/va-agent.py: info Use -e option to get more details.

2016-03-02T06:39:15.741933+00:00 vrava-1 vami /usr/lib/vcac/agent/va-agent.py: info Executing shell command...

2016-03-02T06:39:18.414819+00:00 vrava-1 vami /usr/lib/vcac/agent/va-agent.py: info Command failed: Inviting vrava-1.ra.local to join the cluster