After installation of Cloudstack, you can navigate to Infrastructure > System VMs and see two system VMs running:

  • Secondary Storage VM
  • Console Proxy VM

In the detail view of these VMs (and also in all guest instance VMs which you create) there is a button View Console which opens a new browser window/tab. After a small delay, the content of the console of the running machine should be visible in this window/tab. The admin guide of the current release version 4.1.1 shows the location of the button.

To understand why you see messages related to a domain 'realhostip.com', please read Role of realhostip in CloudStack.

Diagnostic Steps

If your browser hangs with a message 'Connecting to kk-ll-mm-nn.realhostip.com' or you receive an error (usually a timeout) in the Console View, perform the following steps which were compiled from a mailing list thread.

Find out the Link Local IP Address of your Console Proxy

Infrastructure > System VMs > Console Proxy VM > Link Local IP Adddress

SSH into the Console Proxy VM

ssh -i /var/lib/cloudstack/management/.ssh/id_rsa -p 3922 169.254.2.xyz

Check whether the Cloudstack Agent is running
ps aux | grep -v grep | grep com.cloud.agent.AgentShell

the result should be such a process description:

root      1986  0.0  4.4 999920 45644 ?        Sl   Sep09   1:33 java -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=./certs/realhostip.keystore -mx808m -cp ./:./conf:antisamy-1.4.3.jar:aopalliance-1.0.jar:apache-log4j-extras-1.1.jar:aspectjrt-1.7.1.jar:aspectjweaver-1.7.1.jar:aws-java-sdk-1.3.21.1.jar:backport-util-concurrent-3.1.jar:batik-css-1.7.jar:batik-ext-1.7.jar:batik-util-1.7.jar:bcprov-jdk16-1.46.jar:bsh-core-2.0b4.jar:cglib-nodep-2.2.2.jar:cloud-agent-4.1.1.jar:cloud-api-4.1.1.jar:cloud-console-proxy-4.1.1.jar:cloud-core-4.1.1.jar:cloud-utils-4.1.1.jar:commons-beanutils-core-1.7.0.jar:commons-codec-1.6.jar:commons-collections-3.2.1.jar:commons-configuration-1.8.jar:commons-dbcp-1.4.jar:commons-discovery-0.5.jar:commons-fileupload-1.2.jar:commons-httpclient-3.1.jar:commons-lang-2.6.jar:commons-logging-1.1.1.jar:commons-pool-1.6.jar:dom4j-1.6.1.jar:ehcache-1.5.0.jar:ejb-api-3.0.jar:esapi-2.0.1.jar:gson-1.7.1.jar:guava-14.0-rc1.jar:httpclient-4.1.jar:httpcore-4.1.jar:jackson-core-asl-1.8.9.jar:jackson-mapper-asl-1.8.9.jar:jasypt-1.9.0.jar:java-ipv6-0.10.jar:javassist-3.12.1.GA.jar:javax.inject-1.jar:javax.persistence-2.0.0.jar:jaxen-1.1-beta-8.jar:jdom-1.0.jar:jsch-0.1.42.jar:jsr107cache-1.0.jar:log4j-1.2.16.jar:nekohtml-1.9.12.jar:reflections-0.9.8.jar:spring-aop-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:spring-asm-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:spring-beans-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:spring-context-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:spring-core-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:spring-expression-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:spring-web-3.1.2.RELEASE.jar:trilead-ssh2-build213-svnkit-1.3-patch.jar:xalan-2.7.0.jar:xercesImpl-2.6.2.jar:xml-apis-1.0.b2.jar:xml-apis-ext-1.3.04.jar:xmlParserAPIs-2.6.2.jar:xom-1.1.jar com.cloud.agent.AgentShell template=domP type=consoleproxy host=10.168.99.1 port=8250 name=v-2-VM premium=true zone=1 pod=1 guid=Proxy.2 proxy_vm=2 disable_rp_filter=true eth2ip=10.193.17.198 eth2mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=10.193.17.1 eth0ip=169.254.2.243 eth0mask=255.255.0.0 eth1ip=10.168.99.114 eth1mask=255.255.255.0 mgmtcidr=193.17.230.0/24 localgw=10.168.99.1 internaldns1=10.168.99.1 dns1=10.193.17.1
Check the connection of Agent to Management Server
netstat -na | grep 8250
tcp        0      0 10.168.99.114:58439     10.168.99.1:8250        ESTABLISHED
Check whether Agent listens on 443
netstat -na | grep 443
tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:443             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN
Check connectivity to public IP of Console Proxy

On the console proxy, find out the public IP with ifconfig:

ifconfig eth2
eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 06:e6:f2:00:00:c7  
          inet addr:10.193.17.198  Bcast:10.193.17.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::4e6:f2ff:fe00:c7/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:6503 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5243 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:2447827 (2.3 MiB)  TX bytes:2324955 (2.2 MiB)

From your machine, on which the browser is running where you click on the Console View button, try to access port 443 of that public IP:

telnet 10.193.17.198 443
Trying 10.193.17.198...
Connected to 10.193.17.198.
Escape character is '^]'.
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