Unable to get secondary node to join cluster.

[pcon0718]

Hello,

I'm unable to get the second node in my cluster to auto join the cluster using the rabbitmq cookbook with my wrapper script.

The cookbook converges properly on node1 and creates the cluster (In my example: cluster name = cluster). The cookbook on node2 converges properly and attempts to join the cluster however I receive an error stating :

Recipe: rabbitmq::cluster
  * rabbitmq_cluster[[{"name":"rabbit@rabbit1","type":"disc"},{"name":"rabbit@rabbit2","type":"disc"}]] action join[2016-08-11T18:46:24-04:00] WARN: [rabbitmq_cluster] Node is already member of rabbit@rabbit2.example.com. Joining cluster will be skipped.
 (up to date)
  * rabbitmq_cluster[[{"name":"rabbit@rabbit1","type":"disc"},{"name":"rabbit@rabbit2","type":"disc"}]] action set_cluster_name (up to date)
  * rabbitmq_cluster[[{"name":"rabbit@rabbit1","type":"disc"},{"name":"rabbit@rabbit2","type":"disc"}]] action change_cluster_node_type[2016-08-11T18:46:27-04:00] WARN: [rabbitmq_cluster] Skip changing cluster node type : trying to change to same cluster node type
 (up to date)
Recipe: rabbitmq::default
  * service[rabbitmq-server] action restart
    - restart service service[rabbitmq-server]

For some reason it sets the cluster name, but it's almost like it is forming it's own cluster called "cluster":

[root@rabbit2/]# rabbitmqctl cluster_status
Cluster status of node rabbit@rabbit2 ...
[{nodes,[{disc,[rabbit@rabbit2 ]}]},
 {running_nodes,[rabbit@rabbit2 ]},
 {cluster_name,<<"cluster">>},
 {partitions,[]},
 {alarms,[{rabbit@rabbit2 ,[]}]}]

If I reset the node, I can manually join the cluster on the rabbit1 server. Any idea on what could be going on here? Thanks.

[pcon0718]

Figured it out.

I went ahead and stopped the node

rabbitmqctl stop_app

And reran chef-client.

The node joined right up to the cluster.