Failed to join or form a cluster

Microsoft.Windows.2008.Cluster.Management.Monitoring.Failed.to.join.or.form.a.cluster (Rule)

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

Failed to join or form a cluster

Resolutions

Review the event log for other events associated with this issue. You might be able to correct this issue by restarting the Cluster service. For more information, see 'Restarting the Cluster service on a node.'

If you do not currently have Event Viewer open, see 'Opening Event Viewer and viewing events related to failover clustering.' If the event contains an error code that you have not yet looked up, see 'Finding more information about error codes that some event messages contain.'

To perform the following procedures, you must be a member of the local Administrators group on each clustered server, and the account you use must be a domain account, or you must have been delegated the equivalent authority.

Restarting the Cluster service on a node

To restart the Cluster service on a node:

Opening Event Viewer and viewing events related to failover clustering

To open Event Viewer and view events related to failover clustering:

Finding more information about the error codes that some event messages contain

To find more information about the error codes that some event messages contain:

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.Windows.2008.Cluster.Monitoring.Service
CategoryAlert
EnabledTrue
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityError
Alert PriorityNormal
RemotableTrue
Alert Message
Failed to join or form a cluster
{0}

Member Modules:

ID Module Type TypeId RunAs 
DS DataSource Microsoft.Windows.2008.Cluster.EventProvider Default
WA WriteAction Microsoft.Windows.Cluster.GenerateAlertAction.SuppressedByDescription Default

Source Code:

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