[Ovirt-devel] unable to add hosts in web admin tool

[Alan Pevec]

Justin Clacherty wrote:
> Alan Pevec wrote:
>> Please check the logs /var/log/ovirt* to find out what's going on
> 
> Can't see anything much in the logs on the management server.  I had a 
> look at ovirt.log on the managed host and it looks as though it is 
> having problems talking to the management node, not sure what to do 
> about it though.  Here's the relevant part of the log:
> 
> Resolving management.priv.ovirt.org.... 192.168.50.2
> Connecting to management.priv.ovirt.org.|192.168.50.2|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 500 Internal Server Error
> 2008-10-13 16:52:33 ERROR 500: Internal Server Error.

Seems that ovirt-appliance firstboot failed and left appliance in bad state, check the mongrel log.
You can also reinstall ovirt-appliance image and try http://ovirt.org/page/TroubleShooting#Debugging_oVirt_Appliance_firstboot