RHEV fencing fails with message 'Failed to run Power Management command on Host <host>, no running proxy Host was found'
Issue
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation (RHEV) iLO 4 host fencing fails when the network service is stopped on one of the clustered hosts. An attempt to find a host to perform the actual power off is made and then retried. During each attempt, the following message is seen in /var/log/rhevm/rhevm.log:
INFO Attempt 1 to find fence proxy host failed...
INFO Attempt 2 to find fence proxy host failed...
INFO Attempt 3 to find fence proxy host failed...
These attempts to find a host to perform the actual power off time-out and the following error is then issued in the same log:
ERROR Failed to run Power Management command on Host <host>, no running proxy Host was found.
Environment
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.5.4 or earlier.
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