Symptoms

Conversion of VPS to Hardware Node fails with the following error:

/usr/local/pem/bin/convert_vps_to_host.py --only-checks --verbose --host-id 123 --hw-host-id 456 --gateway 1.2.3.4 --backnet backnet --frontnet frontnet 
...
File "/usr/local/pem/bin/convert_vps_to_host.py", line 481, in check_yum_on_vz_container
raise uAction.PrecheckFailed(reason, what_todo)
poaupdater.uAction.PrecheckFailed: Precheck error: There is no YUM tool installed on host host.domain.com (123) or it is not functional
You should: Install YUM tool. YUM repositories should be reachable.

Cause

This issue caused by the fact that YUM is not installed on the host.

Resolution

Install YUM package on the host using RPM.

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