IQ plug-in on non-Linux machines cannot connect to IQ Agent on Linux [CR 362017]

When creating a new database, if you specify a remote Linux host as the IQ Agent host server, the Create Database Server wizard fails with an error like the following:

Unable to connect to the IQ Agent on  host "<hostname>"

An error referencing host 127.0.0.1 may also appear in the server log.

To prevent the problem:

  1. On the Linux machine, use the ypmatch command to locate its IP address. For example, for system maynardqa:

    %ypmatch maynardqa hosts
    
    10.47.81.70 maynardqa
    
  2. Edit the /etc/hosts file on the Linux machine and replace the IP address of 127.0.0.1 with the true IP address of the Linux host.