Hi.
I am connecting to server (HP Proliant) using Integrated LightsOut remote console. The 4th octet of its ip is f.e. .9 and the Kubuntu OS ip on this machine is ended with ..19. Whenever i login to my account to autodiscover nearby nodes, the ip for this machine seen by master computer is wrong because its the ILO's ip. To render "somehow" i have to manually add OS ip and then the autodiscovered node appears to be "ready", but not always...
The question is what is wrong with this configuration and why is there console IP.
Can i force the ip change manually? Because every time i try to change it, it reverts back to old ip so the ILO ip.
Ok, lest focus on the new problem now then :)
Well, i think that was kind of a bug in my linux distribution (was Kubuntu 17.x not LTS and now it is 18.04 and its LTS version) or smth. Only difference between the first installation and the 2nd was that i used only headless instance of render server instead of running it with GUI in running blender. I believe that was the problem, somehow i doubled(?) crowdrender servers on a machine. I couldnt unplug ILO because sometimes i have to connect to the server via JIRC, check server's status etc. Server was using static IP on both ilo and ethernet ports. There was no problem with names. When i reinstalled linux and cleared server list in blender, after connection attempt it worked just perfectly.... only with small projects but with large ones we have a problem described here in other thread ->https://www.crowd-render.com/forum-1/general-questions/why-servers-are-not-sending-back-their-render-result
Hello
Thank you for your response, this problem has been fixed. I've reinstalled the Linux to the newest LTS version
Hi there, ok, we have a proliant ourselves, so we're familiar with the brand. However, because we sit next to the thing, we don't connect the ILO port. The way that autodetect works is by host name resolution within the local network, so if your server has more than one IP on the local segment of the network, then a client might get both and then it will be choosing the first one it sees and discarding the second.
I would hazard a guess that what's happening is the resolve is getting your ILO ip from the hostname, and using its IP.
If you do not need ILO all the time, you could disable it, or unplug it. Otherwise you could locate it on a different switch maybe. I don't know your needs in that regard so can't really help much with the information I have right now.
Hope this helps? Also sorry about the delay in posting back, we've had a bug in our forum thats stopped us getting notifications, today has been a big, big clean up for us :(