From 5f57e0d3deedced625baf795a214e978b1ea6c65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ertaozh <ertaozh@cn.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 04:37:43 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add log for hardware discovery when no ip address can be
 resolved for the pre-defined node

---
 xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/nodediscover.pm | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/nodediscover.pm b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/nodediscover.pm
index 21596f611..3291054f5 100644
--- a/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/nodediscover.pm
+++ b/xCAT-server/lib/xcat/plugins/nodediscover.pm
@@ -312,6 +312,9 @@ sub process_request {
                             $hosttag = "$node-$ifinfo[1]";
                             push @hostnames_to_update, $hosttag;
                         }
+                        elsif (!inet_aton($node)) {
+                            xCAT::MsgUtils->message("S", "xcat.discovery.nodediscover: Can not resolve IP for the matching node:$node, please makesure \"makehost $node\" and \"makedns $node\" have run before starting hardware discovery.");
+                        }
                     }
                     #print Dumper($hosttag) . "\n";
                     if ($hosttag) {