If you try to start 2 AS5's, either with service binding manager or by binding to different ports, you now get on the 2nd node the problem of: | ... | 12:50:06,453 ERROR [ExceptionUtil] org.jboss.messaging.core.jmx.MessagingPostOff | iceService@7ce5bf startService | java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot start post office since there is already a post office in the cluster with the same node id (0). | Are you sure you have given each node a unique node id during installation? | at org.jboss.messaging.core.impl.postoffice.MessagingPostOffice.start | ... | Shouldn't that work out-of-the-box and then let you override it, if necessary? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4125467#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...