Associate the agent IP with the physical hostname
For Microsoft clusters and Hyper-V deployments, it may be necessary to configure the
IP Availability Manager
manually to associate agent IP addresses for clusters or
Hyper-V virtual machines with specific hostnames. The name of the Hyper-V host and the name of the physical host must be the same in the IP Availability Manager. This ensures that the IP Availability Manager accurately discovers the IP on which
the virtual machine is running.To manually associate the agent IP with the configured hostname, perform one of the following procedures on the
IP Availability Manager
:- Edit the hosts file so that the IPs on the host are the same as those on the cluster or Hyper-V server name.
- Use a seed file to force theIP Availability Managerto use the cluster or Hyper-V server name for the physical hostname. The provides information about seed files.