Error while creating a cluster in rabbitmq

Question

I am new to rabbitmq and trying to set up a cluster. However I am getting the following error. The cookie is same in both machine in the C:\\Windows and C:\\Users\\

Answer 1

Looks like your rabbit@node2 node is looking for a node named rabbit@node1 when the node that exists is rabbitmq-cli-552@node1.

This happens when rabbitmq is started on install. Best way to get around this is to stop the rabbitmq process (sudo /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server stop) then to start it (sudo /etc/init.d/rabbitmq-server start).

If the first command fails to stop it, you can always kill the rabbitmq server process, then start it again. The node coming up should have the correct name.