topic OnCommand Host Agent fails to assign controller in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/OnCommand-Host-Agent-fails-to-assign-controller/m-p/36735#M7533 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi there</P><P></P><P>We have an installation with OnCommand 5.1 and Host Agent 1.2 installed on our vSphere server.</P><P>We have two primary controllers which we have been able to register correctly, and backups work.</P><P></P><P>We also want to add our secondary controller in order to be able to restore from our backups.</P><P></P><P>When we try to associate the controller with the Host Service it starts a job, which finishes correctly, and for a short while the controller is places along-side the two other controllers in the window below the host service.</P><P>But it is soon removed again, with no errors to report...</P><P></P><P>We have gone though the DFM settings and verified that the controller is registered OK, and also on the vSphere VSC we have checkked and everything looks golden...</P><P></P><P>Have we missed something here ?</P><P></P><P>Is there a hidden log which may lead us to the root cause of this ?</P><P></P><P>Kind regards,</P><P>Heino Walther</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:13:34 GMT heinowalther 2025-06-05T06:13:34Z OnCommand Host Agent fails to assign controller https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/OnCommand-Host-Agent-fails-to-assign-controller/m-p/36735#M7533 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi there</P><P></P><P>We have an installation with OnCommand 5.1 and Host Agent 1.2 installed on our vSphere server.</P><P>We have two primary controllers which we have been able to register correctly, and backups work.</P><P></P><P>We also want to add our secondary controller in order to be able to restore from our backups.</P><P></P><P>When we try to associate the controller with the Host Service it starts a job, which finishes correctly, and for a short while the controller is places along-side the two other controllers in the window below the host service.</P><P>But it is soon removed again, with no errors to report...</P><P></P><P>We have gone though the DFM settings and verified that the controller is registered OK, and also on the vSphere VSC we have checkked and everything looks golden...</P><P></P><P>Have we missed something here ?</P><P></P><P>Is there a hidden log which may lead us to the root cause of this ?</P><P></P><P>Kind regards,</P><P>Heino Walther</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:13:34 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/OnCommand-Host-Agent-fails-to-assign-controller/m-p/36735#M7533 heinowalther 2025-06-05T06:13:34Z Re: OnCommand Host Agent fails to assign controller https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/OnCommand-Host-Agent-fails-to-assign-controller/m-p/36740#M7536 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Greetings,</P><P></P><P>Sounds like you might need to enable the licensed_feature.multistore.enable option on the controllers.</P><P></P><P><A class="jive-link-message-small" data-containerid="2068" data-containertype="14" data-objectid="91599" data-objecttype="2" href="https://communities.netapp.com/message/91599#91599" target="_blank">https://communities.netapp.com/message/91599#91599</A></P><P></P><P>Kevin</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:00:14 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/OnCommand-Host-Agent-fails-to-assign-controller/m-p/36740#M7536 kryan 2012-12-18T11:00:14Z