here is how i setup the cluster itself i added the ip's of the other machines to the initial_hosts list in the cluster-service.xml of that machine. Is tat all ? <TCPPING initial_hosts="10.1.30.201[7800]" port_range="3" timeout="3000" down_thread="false" up_thread="false" num_initial_members="3"/> incase i want to add/delete a node from a cluster itself i have to manually remove the ip entry from the cluster-service.xml of every machine ? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4085459#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...