Why when adding a new RHEL host to RHEV-M do I see the message "WARNING Connect to svdsm failed [Errno 111] Connection refused"?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • When trying to add a new RHEL host to RHEV-M it fails with the following message in /var/log/message:
Jul 17 10:22:51 hostname vdsm SuperVdsmProxy WARNING Connect to svdsm failed [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Jul 17 10:22:51 hostname respawn: slave '/usr/share/vdsm/vdsm' died too quickly, respawning slave

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2

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