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# sk160334 - Cloning group members are not responsive after upgrade when using ClusterXL

| Property | Value |
|----------|-------|
| Solution ID | sk160334 |
| Date Created | 2019-08-13 |
| Last Modified | 2019-09-05 |
| Technical Level | Advanced |
| Products | Security Gateway |
| Versions | R82.10, R82, R81.20 |

## Symptoms

- * After an upgrade, cloning group members are not responsive. For example  
  `
  CloningGroup:vrrp94 > show configuration trace`  
  `
  10.10.10.94:`  
  `
  10.10.10.95:`  
  `
  Member 10.10.10.95 is down. See "/var/log/messages".`
* /var/log/messages shows the following errors:  
  `
  [DATE TIME] VRRP95 cloningd: Blade (null) (10.10.10.94): Error writing to remote server: Could not write data to the socket `  
  `
  [DATE TIME] VRRP95 cloningd: Cloning Group Error:Unable to establish secure connection with 10.10.10.94 due to Password mismatch. `

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