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B.4. How to Set Up Red Hat Virtualization Manager to Use a Non-Management Network
You can configure each host in a Data Center to use a non-management network as the default network, instead of the default management network (ovirtmgmt). The default_route property is defined for host network interface cards from the Administration Portal. The key is not available by default and needs to be added to the Manager using the engine configuration tool. You can check whether has already been enabled by running the following command:
# engine-config -g UserDefinedNetworkCustomProperties
Procedure B.3. Adding the default_route Key to the Manager
- On the Manager, run the following command to add the key:
# engine-config -s # engine-config -s UserDefinedNetworkCustomProperties='default_route=^(true|false)$' # engine-config -g UserDefinedNetworkCustomProperties
- Restart the
ovirt-engineservice:# systemctl restart ovirt-engine
The key is now available in the Administration Portal. See Section 6.5.2, “Editing Host Network Interfaces and Assigning Logical Networks to Hosts” to define a non-management network.

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