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Unable to add node due to duplicate entry

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • FAS/AFF System

Issue

  • While adding Node, the join operation is failing with below message:

Failed to start cluster join on node: 169.254.XXX.37: Node is already in a cluster.

  • From the debug "cluster_add_node_progress_ui" table, a stale entry was recoded.

cluster::*> debug smdb table cluster_add_node_progress_ui show
node-uuid                                node-name          cluster-ip     status    failure-msg                                                                         job-id 
------------------------------------ ------------------ ----------------- --------  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------
0a0f27f4-4c71-11f0-8b31-d039eaccfa48     cluster-01       169.254.XXX.37   failure   Failed to start cluster join on node: 169.254.XXX.37: Node is already in a cluster.   32     
 

 

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