Cannot access the Developer Edition 7.1 Content Server from the host

I am trying to access the Content Server 7.1 running on the demo-server in VMware Player from a DFC-based application running on the host computer. But I am getting the following message:

[DFC_DOCBROKER_REQUEST_FAILED] Request to Docbroker "192.168.159.128:1489" failed

I have successfully tried to ping the demo-server from the host with it's ip:

C:\>ping 192.168.159.128

Pinging 192.168.159.128 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.159.128: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for 192.168.159.128:

Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:

Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms

My host is running Windows 7 64-bit.

Why can't I reach the connection broker?

Regards,

Mikael

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PanfilovAB

When EMC was creating DEV VM they made fatal mistake: target audience is not familiar with UNIX.

The problem is all Documentum network services in this VM are bonded to loopback address, there are two ways to fix a problem:

1. simply edit /etc/hosts file, after editing it should look like:


127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost4.localdomain4 localhost4
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
192.168.159.128 demo-server

2. more complex approach to make this VM tolerant to ip address changes:

edit /etc/hosts file:


127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost4.localdomain4 localhost4
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost6.localdomain6 localhost

create /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99-hosts:


#!/bin/sh

INTERFACE=$1
STATUS=$2

if [ "x$STATUS" != "xup" ]; then
  exit 0
fi

DEFAULT=$(/sbin/ip route | grep ^default | awk '{print $5}')

if [ "x$INTERFACE" != "x$DEFAULT" ]; then
  exit 0
fi

hostname=$(hostname)
alias=$(hotname -a)
ip=$(/sbin/ip -o -4 addr list $INTERFACE | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d/ -f1)

if [ "x$ip" = "x" -o "x$hostname" = "x" ]; then
  exit 0
fi

sed -i -e '/'"$hostname"'/d' /etc/hosts
sed -i -e '/Added by 99-hosts/d' /etc/hosts
echo "#Added by 99-hosts" >> /etc/hosts
echo "$ip $hostname $alias" >> /etc/hosts

make the /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99-hosts file executable and reboot

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PanfilovAB

When EMC was creating DEV VM they made fatal mistake: target audience is not familiar with UNIX.

The problem is all Documentum network services in this VM are bonded to loopback address, there are two ways to fix a problem:

1. simply edit /etc/hosts file, after editing it should look like:


127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost4.localdomain4 localhost4
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
192.168.159.128 demo-server

2. more complex approach to make this VM tolerant to ip address changes:

edit /etc/hosts file:


127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost4.localdomain4 localhost4
::1 localhost.localdomain localhost localhost6.localdomain6 localhost

create /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99-hosts:


#!/bin/sh

INTERFACE=$1
STATUS=$2

if [ "x$STATUS" != "xup" ]; then
  exit 0
fi

DEFAULT=$(/sbin/ip route | grep ^default | awk '{print $5}')

if [ "x$INTERFACE" != "x$DEFAULT" ]; then
  exit 0
fi

hostname=$(hostname)
alias=$(hotname -a)
ip=$(/sbin/ip -o -4 addr list $INTERFACE | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d/ -f1)

if [ "x$ip" = "x" -o "x$hostname" = "x" ]; then
  exit 0
fi

sed -i -e '/'"$hostname"'/d' /etc/hosts
sed -i -e '/Added by 99-hosts/d' /etc/hosts
echo "#Added by 99-hosts" >> /etc/hosts
echo "$ip $hostname $alias" >> /etc/hosts

make the /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/99-hosts file executable and reboot

mikaeldjerf

Great!

I went for option 1 and it solved the issue. I will try option 2 later.

Thanks,

Mikael