That exception is thrown when the ClusterChooserInterceptor cannot find any more targets to try; the "Caused by: org.jboss.remoting.CannotConnectException" is telling you what the exception was from the last target it attempted. So the question is why there are no other targets to try if you've got an eight node cluster and only one node is being shut down. View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4261372#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...