System Prerequisites for the End Point Operations Management Agent

If you do not define localhost as the loopback address, the End Point Operations Management agent does not register and the following error appears: Connection failed. Server may be down (or wrong IP/port were used). Waiting for 10 seconds before retrying.

As a workaround, complete the following steps:

Procedure

1. Open the hosts file /etc/hosts on Linux or C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts on Windows.
2. Modify the file to include a localhost mapping to the IPv4 127.0.0.1 loopback address, using 127.0.0.1 localhost.
3. Save the file.