Error whilst creating the cluster

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Hi all.

I have a two QNAP TS-855eU-RP and I would like to set up a fault-tolerant cluster. Although I have connected them to each other via a direct fibre-optic link, I get an ‘The heartbeat connection requires a direct connection between the two devices’ error when creating the cluster.

I’m doing everything in accordance with the official documentation; the heartbeat link is up, and IP addresses are being assigned via DHCP; they’re currently in the 169.254.0.0 subnet. The firmware is up to date (QuTS Hero h6.0.0.3500), and the manager app has also been updated (v 2.0.421).

I haven’t installed the firewall yet. And by the way, the pings are working between the heartbeat interface addresses.
Can you help me figure out why it doesn’t like my direct connection?

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I think, IP Range must be 192.168.xxx. oer 10.10.xxx

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Yeah, that is normally an IP for network adapters that are set to DHCP but cannot find a DHCP server (Link Local address)

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Well, I’ve sorted it out. It turns out that HAManager identifies passive nodes using the standard QFinder mechanism. I’d disabled this feature for security reasons. To set up the cluster, I had to enable it.