Aria Operations is Sending Millions of DNS Queries per Day.

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Aria Operations is sending millions of DNS queries per day.

Environment

Aria Operations 8.x

Resolution

The Remote Collectors and Analytics Nodes needed to have the /etc/hosts file defined in the cluster nodes' info. 

1.  Login to Analytics Nodes as "root" user.

2.  Run the command "/etc/hosts"

3.  Add the IP Address and FQDN of the nodes and remote collectors in the file and save.  

EXAMPLE:

root@gpvmwrop01 [ /etc ]# cat hosts
# vROps_EDIT_BEGIN
# Generated by Vrops-Init service. Do not modify manually.
127.0.0.1 localhost
<IP ADDRESS> <FQDN>
::1 <FQDN> localhost ipv6-localhost ipv6-loopback
<IP ADDRESS> <FQDN>
<IP ADDRESS> <FQDN>

# vROps_EDIT_END