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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Hi everyone,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m having problems clustering RabbitMQ on EC2 in Windows.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Apologies for the length of this post, but I thought it best to include all my steps:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>a)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>to help with diagnosis<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo4'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>b)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>for anyone else who wants to set up a Windows RabbitMQ HA cluster on EC2 (if we manage to resolve the issue!)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Here’s what I’ve done so far:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>1)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>Started 2x EC2 Windows Server 2008 RC2 instances in a ‘Rabbit’ security group<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='margin-left:18.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l3 level1 lfo3'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>2)<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>On each EC2 instance:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>Installed Erlang R15B02 Windows 64 Bit Binary File with MSVCR100<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>installed RabbitMQ v2.8.7<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>installed the management plugin<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>reinstalled the service to enable the plugin: <a href="http://www.rabbitmq.com/plugins.html#windows-restart">http://www.rabbitmq.com/plugins.html#windows-restart</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>opened up Windows Firewall port 4369 (for Erlang Epmd)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>opened up Windows Firewall port 5672 (the node port)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>opened up Windows Firewall port range 55700-55800 (for erlang node kernel communication)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>opened up Windows Firewall port 55672 (for the management website, not strictly necessary)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph style='text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l4 level1 lfo2'><![if !supportLists]><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span><![endif]>copied an identical ‘.erlang.cookie’ file to:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoListParagraph st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d (with different hostname):<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'>C:\Program Files (x86)\RabbitMQ Server\rabbitmq_server-2.8.7\sbin&gt;rabbitmqctl cluster <a href="mailto:rabbit@ec2-XX-XX-XX-XX.compute-1.amazonaws.com">rabbit@rabbit02</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I get the same result:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'>Clustering node 'rabbit@ IP-0AAXXXXX’ with [rabbit@rabbit02] ...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'>Error: {no_running_cluster_nodes,[rabbit@rabbit02],[rabbit@rabbit02]}<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I know this mapping can be used to access the other Windows computer, because I can use it to access the management console in a web browser:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:36.0pt'><a href="http://rabbit02:55672/#/">http://rabbit02:55672/#/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I then tried to change the computer name from IP-0AAXXXXX to rabbit01 (in case this was a problem) but upon reboot, it hadn’t changed. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone have any suggestions?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Rich</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>