Storage Resource agent information is inconsistent after stop and restart on Windows

On Windows™, after you stop the Storage Resource agent, reboot the system, and restart the agent, the information displayed for the agent is not consistent.

Problem

For example, the IP address and agent name are not the same before and after you stop and start the Storage Resource agent.

Action

If the IBM Spectrum® Control server and Storage Resource agent (or Fabric agent) are installed on the same Windows system that is also the Primary Domain Controller and has Microsoft™ Failover Cluster node, then the hosts file must be changed.

You must enter the correct IP address, fully qualified domain name, and host name in the hosts file before installing IBM Spectrum Control. The hosts file is found in this directory:

C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

Enter a line in the hosts file, for example:

98.256.43.23 xyz.company.com xyz

If the IP address, fully qualified domain name, and host name are not added to the hosts file, then the preferred private IP address (169.x.y.z) for the Microsoft Failover Cluster Virtual Adapter is incorrectly returned as the IP address for the Data server and Storage Resource agent.