Unable to install Vertica on new Data Repository server in DX Netops Performance Management

Products

• Network Observability

Issue/Introduction

Unable to install Vertica on new Data Repository server in DX Netops Performance Management 

We see the error highlighted below:

Failed on hosts (1): <IP>
    Provided DB Admin account details: user = dradmin, group = verticadba, home = /path/to/homedir
    Creating group... Group already exists
    Validating group... Okay
    Creating user... User already exists
    Validating user...
    Fail : User's home directory does not exist: '/path/to/homedir'
    Hint : Did user creation cause any errors?
    Help : https://my.vertica.com/docs/9.1.x/HTML/index.htm#cshid=S0260

Unable to create or verify DB Admin user/group on some hosts.
See above for details.

Installation FAILED with errors.

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Investigate the above warnings/errors and re-run installation.
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Environment

Release : Any release

Cause

The DbAdminLinuxUserHome parameter was not set correctly in the drinstall.properites file. 

Resolution

Validate the drinstall.properties file DbAdminLinuxUserHome is pointing to the correct home directory for the dradmin user.