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 the
    IP Availability Manager
    to use the cluster or Hyper-V server name for the physical hostname. The
    provides information about seed files.