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Sumit Mohanty updated AMBARI-2277:
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    Description: 
Host registration commonly fails on two scenarios:

1) Agent machine can't make it back to Server (results in failed host register 
because Server never sees host register)
2) Agent machine registers with Server under a _different_ hostname than Server 
expected (results in failed register because Server thinks host never 
registered)

Need to consider how to make these scenarios 1) easier to troubleshoot 2) more 
clear to the user 3) provide paths out of this situation (warn, retry, remove)

One limiting factor we have during registration currently is that we are 
assuming a hostname matches up. One (possible) way to alleviate this can be to 
provide a context, which can be any random string, that we send to the host 
which is returned during the registration call. If we can somehow match the 
context with what the host provides, we can then offer some meaningful warnings 
if there is a hostname mismatch.
We would have to do this BEFORE saving the hostname in the database.
Such a mechanism cannot block registration because, for example, we offer 
custom host name scripts from the agent. In that case, either a) the hostnames 
will match up anyway because registration is manual at that point or b) the 
user knows what he's doing and can just skip past it.

FE should consider reporting the unmatched host names along with hosts that 
failed to register. This will make it easy to debug the issue.

  was:
Host registration commonly fails on two scenarios:

1) Agent machine can't make it back to Server (results in failed host register 
because Server never sees host register)
2) Agent machine registers with Server under a _different_ hostname than Server 
expected (results in failed register because Server thinks host never 
registered)

Need to consider how to make these scenarios 1) easier to troubleshoot 2) more 
clear to the user 3) provide paths out of this situation (warn, retry, remove)

One limiting factor we have during registration currently is that we are 
assuming a hostname matches up. One (possible) way to alleviate this can be to 
provide a context, which can be any random string, that we send to the host 
which is returned during the registration call. If we can somehow match the 
context with what the host provides, we can then offer some meaningful warnings 
if there is a hostname mismatch.
We would have to do this BEFORE saving the hostname in the database.
Such a mechanism cannot block registration because, for example, we offer 
custom host name scripts from the agent. In that case, either a) the hostnames 
will match up anyway because registration is manual at that point or b) the 
user knows what he's doing and can just skip past it.

    
> Improve host checking on registration
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>
>                 Key: AMBARI-2277
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-2277
>             Project: Ambari
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: controller
>    Affects Versions: 1.2.4
>            Reporter: Sumit Mohanty
>             Fix For: 1.2.5
>
>
> Host registration commonly fails on two scenarios:
> 1) Agent machine can't make it back to Server (results in failed host 
> register because Server never sees host register)
> 2) Agent machine registers with Server under a _different_ hostname than 
> Server expected (results in failed register because Server thinks host never 
> registered)
> Need to consider how to make these scenarios 1) easier to troubleshoot 2) 
> more clear to the user 3) provide paths out of this situation (warn, retry, 
> remove)
> One limiting factor we have during registration currently is that we are 
> assuming a hostname matches up. One (possible) way to alleviate this can be 
> to provide a context, which can be any random string, that we send to the 
> host which is returned during the registration call. If we can somehow match 
> the context with what the host provides, we can then offer some meaningful 
> warnings if there is a hostname mismatch.
> We would have to do this BEFORE saving the hostname in the database.
> Such a mechanism cannot block registration because, for example, we offer 
> custom host name scripts from the agent. In that case, either a) the 
> hostnames will match up anyway because registration is manual at that point 
> or b) the user knows what he's doing and can just skip past it.
> FE should consider reporting the unmatched host names along with hosts that 
> failed to register. This will make it easy to debug the issue.

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