<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 to figure out how clustering works.</div><div>I am running a windows host machine along with three vm's with centos 5.9 , rabbitmq-server-3.0.3, and erlang installed on all three nodes. (host only network, named them rabbit1@localhost, rabbit2@localhost, rabbit3@localhost)<br></div><div>I was able to get all the nodes working (without any clustering), but so far all my clustering attempts have been unsuccessful.</div><div>(I am able to ping between nodes fine)</div><div>The only thing I have changed has been the addition of an init script (attached pic) to ensure rabbitmq starts automatically.<br></div><div>After reading the tutorials, I copied and pasted the erland cookie (I'd like to think I did it the correct way) to all the nodes(2 pics attached). the cookie hash however, doesn't
change regardless of how many times I stop (rabbitmqctl stop) and start.. I don't really know what I'm missing.</div><div>In addition, I am able to run <span style="font-weight: bold;">rabbitmq-server</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">-detached, rabbitmqctl cluster</span>_status fine (and I do get the expected results) however, when I do <span style="font-weight: bold;">rabbitctl join_cluster</span> I get:<br></div><div>rabbitmq Error:{cannot_discover_cluster,"the nodes provided are either offline or not running"} ..and the rabbitmq management console always show a disc status as well..<br></div><div>please help....</div><div><br></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;">any will be much appreciated.....<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>