<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Hi all,</div><div>I am a newbie trying rabbitmq.</div><div>my setup is the following:</div><div>running a windows host with three virtual machines running centos 5.9 and have them in a host only network.</div><div>I have rabbitmq server 3.0.3 installed in all three vm's along with erlang (named the nodes rabbit1@localhost,rabbit2@localhost,rabbit3@localhost)</div><div>I also have added an init.d script (pic 4) that starts rabbitmq when the node starts.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">After reading the tutorials, I was able to make the three separate vm's work. (created a java application to test them and works fine). The problems started when I tried to cluster the three nodes.</div><div
style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I understand you need to make sure your chosen erlang cookie is copied to all the nodes that will be in the cluster so I made sure of that as well.</div><div style="font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-style: normal;">I get the expected results when I do <i style="color: rgb(139, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">rabbitmq-server -detached ,</i><i style="color: rgb(139, 0, 0); font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">rabbitmqctl cluster_status.</i><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">(shown in the second picture) on the three nodes</i></div><div style="font-size:
13px; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">but when I try to join a cluster, I get: Error: Cannot discover cluster."the nodes provided are either offline or not running". (same thing for the other two)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I am not exactly sure what I'm missing (I also have no idea how to change the status of my node in the Rabbitmq_management from disc to connected)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Pleease help!!!</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px;
font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">I have added more pics to hopefuly make it easier to pinpoint what I'm doing wrong.</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Any help will be greatly appreciated..:)</span></div><div style="font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;"><i style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br></i></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div></div></body></html>