How to Accept an Invitation to Join a Site

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Perform this procedure to complete the addition of a cluster to a site.

Before You Begin

Ensure that an invitation to join a site has been issued for the cluster. See How to Add a Cluster to a Site.
Ensure that all nodes of the cluster that issued the invitation are online.
Ensure that the common agent container is started on all nodes of both the cluster that issued the invitation and the invited cluster.

From a node of the site cluster that issued the invitation, ensure that all nodes are online.
```
phys-schost-1# clnode status
=== Cluster Nodes ===

--- Node Status ---

Node Name                                       Status
---------                                       ------
phys-schost-2                                   Online
phys-schost-1                                   Online
```
If any node of the issuing cluster is offline, wait until the node is back online before you accept the site invitation. The acceptance of a site invitation will fail if any node in the issuing cluster is not online.
From a node of the invited cluster, assume the root role or assume a role that is assigned the Geo Management RBAC rights profile.
For more information about RBAC, see Securing Geographic Edition Software in Oracle Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition Installation and Configuration Guide .
Note - If you use a role with Geo Management RBAC rights, ensure that the /var/cluster/geo ACLs are correct on each node of both partner clusters. If necessary, assume the root role on the cluster node and set the correct ACLs.
```
# chmod A+user:username:rwx:allow /var/cluster/geo
```
The /var/cluster/geo directory must have the correct access control lists (ACL) applied for compatibility between the Geo Management RBAC rights profile and data replication software.
Ensure that all nodes of the invited cluster are online.
```
invited-cluster-node# cluster status -t node
```
Accept the invitation to join the site.
```
invited-cluster-node# geosite join issuing-cluster site
```
issuing-cluster

The name of the cluster that issued the geosite command to add the invited cluster.

site

The name of the site that the invited cluster is joining.
Verify that the cluster is a member of the site.
The following command lists all sites that the issuing cluster is a member of.
```
invited-cluster-node# geosite list
     site
```

Troubleshooting

If a geosite join operation fails due to a failure to verify trust, ensure that the common agent container is running on all nodes of both the invited cluster and the issuing cluster. If a node is not running the common agent container, issue the /usr/sbin/cacaoadm start command on that node.

If a geosite join operation fails due to a timeout, re-issue the command with a joinTimeout property value larger than the default of 30. For example, geosite join cluster -p joinTimeout=120 site.