Andrew Meyer via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> So I rebuilt a server tonight and gave it a new hostname but i'm getting
> the following error when trying to add the new one.
>
> Skip ipa.domain.local: cannot verify if this is an IPA server
> Provide your IPA server name (ex: ipa.example.com): ipa.domain.local
> Skip ipa.domain.local: cannot verify if this is an IPA server
> Failed to verify that ipa.domain.local is an IPA Server.
> This may mean that the remote server is not up or is not reachable due
> to network or firewall settings.
>
> There is nothing in the logs in /var/log. However when I run systemctl
> I see that the IPA service exited. But I can tell why.
>
> The last thing I did was reboot the IPA server. This is a single IPA
> server domain setup running on CentOS 7.4 latest version of FreeIPA.
You need to provide more details on what you are doing.
You start out describing a server install and end up describing a client
install.
IPA will log into /var/log/ipaserver-install and/or
/var/log/ipaclient-install.
rob