VMware Identity Manager Fails to Change IP Even After Changing the IP in the vApp Section of vSphere
NOTE: This is a copy of an old VMware KB (54981) article no longer published...as it is still valid.
Symptoms
- You are intending on configuring Failover and Redundancy to the vIDM appliances.
- You assigned a new IP address to the cloned system.
- You power on the clone of the original vIDM appliance and once the clone is completely booted, it has the same IP address as the original.
- Looking inside of YaST2, you see that the default gateway has reverted.
Resolution
To resolve this issue:
On the cloned system, run these commands to delete the .bak files in following locations:
rm -f /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0.bak
rm -f /etc/resolv.conf.bak
rm -f /etc/sysconfig/network/routes.bak
- Validate the /etc/hosts file has the proper names settings for 127.0.0.1 and ::1. There should proper short (NetBIOS) and long (FQDN) names along with localhost entries for both addresses above.
- Edit the /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0 with the correct IP addresses.
- Edit the /etc/resolv.conf with the correct IP addresses.
- Edit the /etc/sysconfig/network/routes with the correct IP addresses.
Reboot the appliance once this is saved.
Note: This only applies to the Linux based virtual appliance and not Windows deployments.